i'm going to remind you that there's a higher power, and it will prevent you from being a selfish individual. >> amen, sister. dagen: kirsten, kevin and buck, fantastic to see all of you. right now it's mr. varney and varney and company. stuart: thank you very much, dagen. this is president's day. the left says this is not your president's day. oh, here we go again. barely a month into the presidency, and the left again displays its utter contempt for mr. trump. good morning, everyone. they will demonstrate today this a dozen locations, anything to undermoon be donald trump's election -- undernine donald trump's election win. the steady drum beat of what they call resistance continues. perhaps it's losing steam? here's a surprise be, a real surprise. a centrist democrat thousand goes hard left. last week ray buckley mocked the left, now he's withdrawn from

the race to chair the party, and he's thrown his support behind the far, far left candidate congressman keith ellison. chalk this up as a win for the unhinged left. wait til they see the president's new immigration order set for release sometime this week. in new york i am a muslim demonstration yesterday. the president's order, the new one, reportedly keeps travel restrictions on those same seven predominantly muslim countries. the left can do what it likes, we will celebrate president's day, we are on the air live. our competitor is not. so sit back and enjoy -- [laughter] politics and money on president's day. "varney & company"'s about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: as the song says, we are, indeed, taking care of business while the other guys

are on tape. n i think they're selling bed sheets or something at the moment. [laughter] ashley, as one immigrant to another, i'm very happy to be here. >> yes. greetings, everyone. stuart: yes. the markets are closed, but with we are here and very happy to be so, ladies and gentlemen. hold on a second, let me get this right. there will be not my president's day rallies at various locations today. not sure what the turnout's going to be. it is all part of this resistance movement, resistance to president trump. tammy bruce is here. i think these demonstrations today will dominate local news, but i think they're losing steam. my question is, how successful has the delegitimize trump movement actually been? >> i think it's been very successful to give president trump more success, higher numbers. they've illustrate thed the nature of how void, how say bid the left is. i think they should continue. i think the american people don't like what they're seeing. the rasmussen daily tracking

poll today for the president be, he's at 55% approval -- stuart: wait a second, and i've not seen it. stuart: rasmussen poll and going up. >> at 55% for the last, well, week. actually, since his press conference. and this is what we're seeing. we're seeing people who are activating as being against something, against presidents, against our system versus a president who is saying america first, having ideas, having policies. so i think it's having a negative impact. also after this day without an immigrant last week, there were some protests which were sparsely attended. and be one of the arguments by the organizer was, well, we've been doing a lot of protests, and people are tired. well, you better get ready, because there's going to be eight more years of this to go, folks. stuart: your point is that these demonstrations, which have been almost daily, noisy and raucous around the country, they don't have much impact on everyday america as witnessed with by the rise in the approval rating for

donald trump. >> right. stuart: but that is a new rasmussen poll today, because i've not seen that. >> it's a rolling three-day poll. tip and rasmussen got it right, the national general election. so when we look at these three-day rolling averages, it really gives you a good sense of how the american people are feeling, and in this case the american people are liking donald trump more every day. stuart: i find that fascinating, because the media is blanket anti-trump in the most extreme fashion, and the people don't care. very interesting. here's another one for you, the new hampshire democrat party chair, his name is raymond buckley, he's dropped out of the race to run the democrat party machine. instead he's now endorsing minnesota congressman keith ellison. so he's gone from mocking the left, which he did last week -- mr. buckley -- to joining the far left. >> yeah. stuart: do you remember ray buckley was on this program last week. roll tape. >> but what we need to do is acknowledge that there was a lot

of anxiety. and and while the economy was significantly better after eight years of barack obama, it was not where it was for the average working class family to feel that their future was moving forward and that they could actually fulfill the american dream. we should have addressed that more. i think it's the anxiety that exists not just through the midwest, but throughout the entire country. it's very real. stuart: so why did that gentleman, ray buckley, switch to the far, far left and support congressman keith ellison to run the democrat party machine? the democrats -- there's no such thing as a centrist democrat who can do anything these days, it seems like. >> yeah, and, look, normally a old decision's going to make a decision based on if they can make a deal, if they can have a voice. certainly he perhaps saw there was no way forward, or he's seeing internally that there's still more support for mr. ellison. but at the same time, you're looking at, i believe, a lack of general leadership in the

democrat party which is why this is occurring. because if mr. ellison is chosen, the ultimating in identity politics, that's really going to be a signal that the democratic party's finished. stuart: james freeman is with us, "wall street journal" editorial page writer. i am really shocked to see the center of the democrat party just disintegrate and flow to the far left. >> yeah, i think this really is the legacy of the obama era. there are no moderate democrats left. tom perez, the opponent here, was, you know, the centrist candidate in the context of this this race. [laughter] very hard-left guy who spent years in washington -- >> right. stuart: hold on a second. we should explain this. there is a race to chair the democrat party apparatus known as the dnc. there are two candidates, it's come down to two leading candidates. there is the former labor secretary, mr. perez, and there is congressman keith ellison. i think both are on the far left. >> right.

yeah, the perez agenda in washington was wealth redistribution, it was racial grievance. only in this bizarre party that really as we've seen is no longer represent aring much of the country do you have this competition between left and hard left. stuart: the world's turned upside down. >> yeah, yeah. this is the obama effect. he radicalized in a way both parties. stuart: okay. now, i know our viewers love politics, and we'll get back to it in a moment. but we have to spend a little time dealing with money. kraft heinz, they have dropped the $143 billion offer for unilever. the deal would have crypted a truly global -- created a truly global to do giant, dominating supermarket shelves. >> oh, my god. stuart: so the obvious question, why did they withdraw? >> well, came out valued, unilever, at $143 billion. i think they didn't want to get

into a protracted counteroffer and so on, and so they pulled back and said, no, unilever said this doesn't make strategic sense. i think both sides said the business models of these company, they're not conducive to a merger. it's a wake-up call for unilever because they turned down $50 a share, they're around 42 now, so they're going to have to do some things to keep their shareholders happy. ultimately, the two cultures just wouldn't mesh. stuart: hold on a second, "the wall street journal" wants the weigh in. [laughter] politics is one thing. >> this underlines cultural differences here. a big issue, apparently, is unilever likes its sustainability projects. they have a social agenda along with their business agenda whereas heinz, a little more focused on the bottom line. i think unilever management didn't necessarily want that hard core sort of turbocharged, american style capitalism --

>> yeah, a culture clash. >> and it's going to be interesting now to see what the shareholders of unilever feel about that as the stock drops all the way to the end of the -- [inaudible conversations] >> you know, the margins are so much better opinion kraft than unilever because they are more focused on the bottom line. stuart: how committedded are the unilever people to in this sustainability? it's a greenie kind of thing to me. >> well, it's interesting -- [laughter] hong the big investors, one of the reasons it's hard to take over this company is because included among the investors, you have various shares in hands that are not necessarily looking exclusively at the bottom line. and, you know -- [laughter] heinz -- stuart: i'm laughing, i'm sorry. i'm laughing because wilders may win the election in holland, and

he doesn't care much about sustainability, i don't think. >> not at all. >> a change there. >> the new heinz motto should be make heinz great again -- [laughter] and then everyone will be together on the same page. stuart: all right. president trump, oh, is he back in campaign mode or what? at that rally in hell bourne, florida, saturday -- melbourne, florida, saturday afternoon. roll that tape. >> this is a great movement, a movement like has never been seen before in our country or probably anywhere else. this was a truly great movement, and i want to be here with you, and i will always be with you, i promise you that. stuart: i think we have of to get used to this, because it's a very different style from the president. are you used to it yet, james? >> well, i think he has figured out that this is the only way he can really get his hedge through the media, is to go back to holding the campaign-style events, possibly encourage or, you know, hope that media people

feel compelled to carry the events live so that he can speak directly to people. stuart: it's just, it's such a brash style, isn't it? >> yeah. stuart: he's got a very loud voice, and he's there, and he's kind of off the cuff a lot of the time. there's some prompter there, but we've never seen that from a president before. >> yeah. stuart: i've never seen that. >> it does take some getting used to. i didn't think it would work. this is why i try to have a little humility when i'm analyzing this guy because mid 2015, i didn't think he'd ever be present. given where we are, i think we have to say this is not the traditional presidential style -- [laughter] >> that's an understatement. >> but yet it's also not a normal can bigs that he assembled -- stuart: two of the greatest understatements ever. [laughter] >> look, he's in his element there because he became president due to his unique personal be connection with the american people. the only way you can maintain that is through the rally dynamic.

and he enjoys it. we also know that. this is not a struggle for him. this is what he wants to do. and i notice mrs. trumping also seemed to be hutch more comfortable, much more willing to be herself, and that was beneficial. stuart: i'm just fascinated, that rasmussen poll be, 55 percent approval out today -- >> yeah. since it's president's day, we're looking at this entire last week, also friday. but that's what you get atlas miss seven daily tracking, 55%. stuart: all right. that's politics. let's get back to money. the markets are closed today, but if you look at the futures, they give you a sense of where the market may open tomorrow. up, basically. the other guys, off the air. we're open for business. and get this, you've got to listen to this one, one market watcher says the dow could hit 30,000 by the end of president trump's first term. the guy's looking for a headline, and there's lots of caveats there -- >> that'll do it. stuart: but we got your attention. all right.

flood warnings in effect for parts of northern california. new storm coming expected to bring maybe 5 inches of rain. forecasters say heavy flooding is very likely. just look at that map. politics, president trump back in campaign mode. he wrought one of his supporters on stage. we're going to be speaking with that gentleman on this program, he's name is gene huber. his how many and dad were watching at home, nearly fell off their chairs. good story there. and. and now six members of the super bowl winning new england be patriots say they'll not go to the white house to visit president trump. we're on the story. back in a moment.

stuart: look at this, we've got a launch, and we've got a return to earth, both successful. that is spacex. i guess that's good news, ashley? >> the falcon 9 rocket. you remember, last september they had that spectacular explosion. this time it was a success.

the rocket goes up, it's taking 5500 pounds of supplies, experiments and cargo up to the international space station. even better, the booster rocket which they're trying to recycle, came back down and landed on land very safely too, so they can reuse that. success all the way around. i was just looking at this, you know, spacex as well as boeing, spacex is supposed to take astronauts at the end of next year. stuart: what? >> yes. stuart: really? >> yes. would you want to be on the first flight? stuart: no, but that's not the question i is asked. [laughter] >> they have a plan and a schedule -- stuart: just going up into space. >> yes. human beings as opposed to -- stuart: they're not going to the hoon or or hards, just says. -- or mars -- >> eventually. you're not going to go. stuart: i'm not, no. serious subject, here we go. six patriots' players say they're going to skip the white house meeting with president trump. that breaks a long tostanding tradition.

burgess owens is the author of a great book with a fabulous title. i'll read it for you. liberalism or how to turn good men into whiners, weenies and wimps. he's a former super bowl champion too. [laughter] good to see you again. seriously now, there seems to be a racial element in a lot of black sports stars not being with president trump, opposing president trump and saying it publicly. i find that regrettable, that there is that racial element this it. >> well, it comes down to being educated. and if i would have had the chance to talk to these young men, i would tell them to look at trump's new deal. we have the first president since lincoln to actually put together a last -- a platform, something that actually deals with the black lives, an emancipation proclamation in lincoln, we thousand have a new deal. stuart: what's the nature of those ten points? what exactly -- >> it comes down to freedom, it comes down to education,

opportunities, doing the things that the democrats have not done for the last 50 years. democrats have survived on black misery, and the worst thing for them to have happen is a republican to turn that black community around. and it's all the democratic bags champions. stuart: well, you're tighting the haven stream media to some degree, and i'll back that up with this, we've got a headline in "the new york times," why donald trump doesn't understand black life, and the article goes on to say that mr. trump has long trafficked in racist rhetoric. so, basically, the establishment is saying donald trump is a racist. you can't get anywhere near him. >> i'm going to tell you something, we have a problem even deeper than that, and i'm going to point to the black democratic congressman who sat back and watched misery for decades and done nothing, the elijiah cummings, the john lewises and the black caucus. they are the problem.

they not only have sat back and done nothing, but they've been cowards in terms of standing strong for half the black community. we're talking about policies, not racial issues. and if we ever come to the point we start talking about those policy, i think we'll be in a position to help our communities move forward. stuart: the president is going to meet with the congressional black caucus. >> i'm glad to hear that, and i'd love for them to have conversations about the new deal. america needs to know there is a plan in place. go to the net and see there's a new deal for black americans that the president is talking about. of if we implement that, we're going to have hope, entrepreneurship and opportunities coming back to the black community again. stuart: it's a pleasure to have you in the studio, i can actually shake your hand. that's kind of cool. >> good to be here. stuart: all right. president trump is planning on signing a whole new executive order on travel restrictions, should be doing it this week. i've got a question, will this new one stand up in court?

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seven terror hot spots, iran, iraq, somalia, syria, sudan, libya and yemen. however, take a look at the details, there are exemptions in this new order, we believe. they would include green card holders, travelers with visas, here we go, and dual citizens. now, these three items there should -- because some people were trapped in that group overseas -- this is all done, of course, to get past the court that currently has this travel restriction upended. stuart: tammy, i though you're not a lawyer, but do you think this one is going to pass legal review? in it's certainly going to be challenged. yes, it seems to address what the courts have been saying. at the same time, it's at least 60,000 visas that are outstanding within those seven cubs to 100,000 -- countries to 100,000. that means those individuals are still going to be allowed in the country. let's hope that they work on that vetting in the meantime when it comes to actual entrance. but if they have the visa, they're going to be able to get

in, and it's a lot of people. >> they're going to say it's a muslim ban. stuart: it will be challenged, yes. >> it will survive. they've got it. stuart: look at futures, please. this would give an indication of how the market would open if the market were going to open. the answer is it would be up, significantly so, actually. how about this? one market watcher says if president trump gets all of his policies and the economy does grow 4%, we'll be at 0 be ,000 on the dow by the end of the president's first term. got your attention. then there is rush limbaugh, he says flat out the russians had no impact on our elections. how about that? we'll be back. >> it is preposterous to believe that the russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in this country. it's absurd, there is no evidence, zilch, zero, nada. diabetes, you may know what it's like to deal with high... and low blood sugar.

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stuart: it would be the market would open higher if the markets opened today to. it's not, but you can tell that from the futures market. these are futures contracts indicating maybe how the market will open tomorrow, because it does reopen then. in the background here, we've got one market watcher saying that the dow could hit 30,000 at

the end of president trump's first term if he gets his way with all of his legislative proposals from tax cuts to growing the economy. james freeman, still with us from "the wall street journal" editorial board. you're not a market watcher -- >> well, i do watch the market. [laughter] i am a market watcher. [laughter] stuart: 30,000 on the dow if he gets everything he wants. you going to shoot that down? >> i wouldn't shoot it down, it's the getting everything he wants is going to be the tough part. but right now we have got a pretty sweet policy mix. i think eventually those interest rates are going to have to come up, they should come up. but in terms of the short term for stocks, when you've got loose monetary policy and you've got finally a government in washington that wants to reduce regulation and taxes, corporate earnings going up, there's really not a reason that they shouldn't be rising now. you look at how companies are able to fund themselves, buy back stock, there's just a lot

of reason to see these shares keep going higher. stuart: there's just so much stimulus for the economy. >> yeah. stuart: an infrastructure plan of a trillion dollars over ten years, tax cuts for businesses, individuals, small businesses, deregulation. what you're doing, you're chucking a ton of hundred right into the middle of the economy. >> well, i think the infrastructure plan, you hay be doing that, and that's where you're not going to get the same bang for your buck. but if you change the incentive on taxes and regulation, you're going to see higher corporate earnings, more growth, more investment in productivity rising as a result, and that's how we get the higher wages. stuart: i don't want to be cynical, but if you want to get a headline, if you're maybe some rather obscure analyst -- [laughter] if you say to 30,000 on the dow industrials by the end of the -- you get people's attention. >> you do, but i'd like to point out just to wring politics into it a little, this is not just the deplorables in the middle of this country who think that the

president is doing well and they like his program. this is really investors not just in the united states, but around the world. obviously, u.s. markets closed today, but european stocks rising lately because they think hurricane is back as a growth engine -- america is back as a growth engine for the world. so these are sort of a worldwide community of deplorables -- [laughter] who are suddenly more bullish on the economy. stuart: last word. >> you know, barron's, they're not obscure, they said 0,000 too. stuart: did they? >> they certainly did. he gets his policies in place, doesn't get involved in the trade war, there's no reason that the market -- stuart: by 2025. >> let me just add that, yes. >> that is a great point. the trade is the big if. >> yeah. >> if he actually got the trade restrictions he wants, that's a wig wreak on growth. so i think -- big break on growth. i think he's going to get tax and regulatory relief and not go

as tar as -- stuart: james, stay tuned, because we've got the chair of the house ways and means committee, kevin brady, on the program later today. now, defense secretary mattis, he's arrived in iraq. he's made it clear the u.s. not there to take iraqi oil. come in, general jack keane. let's get to the big picture before we deal with taking oil or not. is the add managers going -- administration going to put new, fresh troops into iraq and/or afghanistan? what's the program here? >> well, first of all, we can assume that general mattis as secretary of defense has been briefed on the pentagon's plans to defeat isis. this is what the president asked for within 30 days. he's in iraq right now to look the commanders in the eye, make sure they have all the resources that they need to finish the job this support of the iraqi security forces in mosul and also to finish the job in syria.

i'm absolutely convinced if they need more resources, unlike what has happened in the past with president obama, they will get those resources. so that is largely the purpose of the visit. the second purpose of it, certainly, is to provide support for the host government this baghdad, the government of iraq. stuart: okay. so hold your horses, because the cavalry's on the way. not necessarily the american cavalry, but the resources. general, hold on for a second, i'll come right back to you, i promise. rush limbaugh dismissing russian influence on the election. he says that is preposterous. roll tape. >> in my view, it is preposterous to believe that the russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in this country. it's absurd. there is no evidence, zilch, zero, nada. "the new york times" has run two storieses that are basically propaganda on this, one in

october and one this past week. and both stories clearly say no evidence, nobody they've talked to has any evidence whatsoever to suggest it. stuart: okay. well, it's a big story, and rush being as dramatic as ever right there. tammy, what do you say? >> look, this is turning out to be the new birtherrism. it's a story that really has no foundation, it's meant to delegitimize the existing president and it should be, i think, handled as such. as limbaugh noted, that there's -- in the coverage, this is a statement that already was what the fbi is doing. they've found absolutely no evidence to any of the claims. stuart: james, quick comment? >> the governments in the russia have been running propaganda to undermine our political system for roughly the last century. it's good that -- [laughter] the left is finally concerned about this. [laughter] but, no, i don't think it knew the election. stuart: all right. we dealt with that. got it, got it. now let's get back to general jack keane because we have news that rump's personal lawyer,

michael cohen, hand-delivered a plan to lift sanctions on russia, hand-delivered that plan to the former national security adviser, general flynn, just a week before general flynn resigned. general keane, come back in with the big picture, please, because it seems like there's some stuff going on in the background that implies an overall big deal with the russians. is that accurate? >> i don't think it's accurate at all. i mean, what we have here is a story, front page story above the fold by "the new york times", to be sure, on something that we don't really have evidence of. and, listen, inside government, inside the national security apparatus that president trump has, i'm talking about secretary of state, secretary of defense, the cia, the nsc itself, there will always be disagreements over policy issues and also sometimes over execution. i personally think that is good government. and to suggest because a lawmaker in ukraine gave a

lawyer who president trump has worked with a piece of paper suggesting a different approach in terms of our policy implementation, what has that got to do with something actually happening here? it does not. that's the point. the reality is there is no evidence at all that i am aware of, and the president has said the same, that links russia at all with anything prior to this election. and certainly now there is linkage. we have diplomats talking to each other, as it should be. stuart: so there could be sort of a master agreement with the russians that wraps everything all up and neatly seals it? is that a possibility? >> well, certainly it's a possibility. but here's what i think. one is every, all the advisers that president trump has this close to him, secretary of state, secretary of defense, the cia and the apparatus in the

national security council, they are all very clear-eyed about russia. they know for a fact, and have said so, that russia's been trampling on u.s. interests for years. it doesn't mean that we could not engage russia at the same time we're deterring russia. but we must be willing to confront this aggressive behavior. i cannot imagine that this administration would make concessions to russia without something very positive in return. not happening. stuart: i liked what general mattis said to the europeans last week. hey, defend yourselves, start sending some money on defense or else. i bet you liked that too. >> oh, i absolutely do. there's only five out of the 28 countries that meet the stated objective of spending 2% on defense of your gross domestic product, and that's got to change. also they should be providing specific military capabilities. i would go beyond that 2% and demand that, of countries various military capabilities

that would help nato be a successful and effective organization. we need nato, stuart. it has been the most successful political military alliance in history, that's the result of it. and the only time they've ever gone to war as a group is because of 9/11 and the united states being attacked. so there's something to work with there, and we should continue to do it. and the trump administration is absolutely right in pressuring them to ante up the financial support for the organization. stuart: okay. general keane, have a good president's day. we'll see you again soon. >> you too, stewart. stuart: how about this? if your state runs into financial trouble, why don't you with raise the tax on guns. that's what they're considering doing in connecticut. raising the cost of a gun permit by about 30 to 0%. that's -- 300%. that's not iting well with the gun owners in that state. we'll be back. oh, no, wait a minute. that. [laughter] a trump supporter -- let's not forget this.

>> there's more. stuart: trump supporter in florida up on the stage jumps over the barrier. trump says a star is born. that gentleman is on the show next. >> when president trump during the election promised all these things that he was going to do for be us, i knew he was going to do this for us. [cheers and applause]

>> when president trump during the election promised all these things that he was going to do for us, i knew he was going to do this for us. [cheers and applause] >> a star is born. [laughter] stuart: he's here. the man who was on the stage with the president, his name is gene huber. there he is, and he's joining us on the show. gene, before we go any further, i want you to tell us the story about your mom and dad. they were watching you at home. >> okay. stuart: tell us the story. >> yes. they're just sitting at home

watching the rally like any normal family would do -- [laughter] and all of a sudden they see their son pop to up on stage. they literally fell backwards. [laughter] they were so shocked. stuart: well, you must have been shocked when the president just picked you out of the crowd. what was the first thing that ran through your head? >> i'll tell you, i could not believe -- i was this shock myself. i saw him point at me, i was like, is he pointing at me? and, you know, it all started because i was the first one on line, you know? that's how it started. stuart: there's another story i want you to tell our viewers. as i understand it, first thing in the morning you've got a cardboard cutout of our president in your house. >> yes, i do. stuart: what do you do? >> absolutely. i walk in, i salute the president. good morning, mr. president. [laughter] i pray for your safety, i thank

you for what you do for us, have a wonderful day, and i move on. [laughter] exactly right, stuart. stuart: what's the reaction of your coworkers? you work in a car dealership, i know that. >> yes, i do. stuart: what's the reaction of your coworkers? >> well, you know, it's me and my buddy that actually do it, best friend of mine named tom connor, so i really don't have too many people around us in that way. but just the friends and the people that have seen me on tv, it's just, it's outrageous. stuart: you're having a good time. >> oh, i really am, really am, stuart. [laughter] you know, i'm just here to be the spokesman right now for our president as well as our movement, you know? for me to take this opportunity to be in front of the camera. i'm going to do this for him. stuart: okay. one more thing i want to get to. melania trump. now, she's being vigorously attacked by the left because she recited the lord's prayer or to start the campaign rally this florida. i want you to tell our viewers,

because you were in the audience at this point to. you'd not gotten on the stage at this point, i don't think you had. what was the reaction of the crowd around you when she recited the lord's prayer? >> about l-o-v-e, love. we all bowed our heads, we all put our hands together, we all said the lord's prayer with that beautiful first lady. it was a wonderful thing. there's nothing wrong with it. this is what donald, president trump's doing, he's bringing back god into our country again. this is so important for us. to have the lord or again. it was wonderful. stuart: gene, i was sitting at home with tens of millions of other people, and i have to tell you that i was vised. i was very surprised to see the first lady do that, because i'm just not used to it. i'velyed in america for 40 years, i can't remember a lick official going up -- a public official going up to the start a

meeting with the lord's prayer. were you surprised? you've got to have been shocked, and so was the crowd, surely. >> well, you know, president trump, he did not even know she was going to do it, and that shocked him as well. so, you know, for her to have that planned is wonderful. because this is what we need. we need this freshness of love, and god is brought back from president trump now in our government and in our country. stuart: how many tv interviews have you done since the event? >> oh, boy. i think i lost count, stuart. [laughter] stuart: you know you lost your voice. >> yeah. it's better though. i i know you got connections, you tell sean hannity i want to throw that football around with him. [laughter] stuart: where are you at the moment? >> i'm in west palm beach, probably 20 minutes away from mar rah mar-a-lago. zero stuart got it. what are you going to do for the rest of the day? >> i have another interview to do today, wherever else comes up

i can be the spokesman for the movement and our wonderful president, i'm going to do that. i just want to say something on a sad note, my wonderful grandmother who's 90 years old, she happened to pass away this morning. >> oh. >> yes. and she happened to see me on tv yesterday, and she had the biggest smile. but i just want to say to my nana, you're in heaven now with the lord, and the my mother and father, i love you. stuart: gene, that's a wonderful story, and we feel for you. >> thank you. thank you so much. stuart: from all of our viewers, and that's a fact be, sir. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: you come on again soon. >> i would love to, sir. stuart: you will. thank you very much. gene huber, what a guy. >> his enthusiasm. stuart: i love it, don't you? now this, it's from connecticut. the democrat governor proposes new gun fees. all right, ash, give me the story. >> yeah,s this is not going down well. certainly, democrat governor dan malloy, he wants the raise the fees on background checks and

gun permits as much as up to 400% in some cases. a five-year pistol permit go from $70 to $3000. first -- 300. first-time permits doubled. background fees going up $25 per check. it would raise $11.6 million per year because connecticut is in desperate, you know, budgetary problems. ge moved to boston. and, you know, the governor and his taxing ways has created a lot of this. but to this point, gun -- basically, trying to wail out the bum on the back of gun owners. >> it's up constitutional. this is like a poll tax. you're dealing with something that is a constitutional right, and you're making it financially inaccessible to those who are poor on or on the edge, so that needs to be challenge, because you can't do that. a constitutional right is a

constitutional right. you can't, you can't shut out the disenfranchised, the poor from a right that they should enjoy as well. >> also you lose sales, you're losing the revenue from the sales taxes as well, so it's a ridiculous proposal. stuart: just anti-gun period, isn't he? >> yep. stuart: how about this? bill gates says if robots take human jobs, they should pay taxes. i suppose that's rational. [laughter] we'll explain that thought. and, yes, the markets may be closed today, but we are open for business. ask the market continues to hit records for the dow, the s&p, the nasdaq gone straight up since the election. now, that's a story that have, and we'll be back. ♪ we asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. travel with my daughter. roller derby. ♪ now give up half of 'em. do i have to?

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now, get this, get this -- [laughter] no big surprise, but the european union has already debated this, and companies who operate robots instead of humans would have to pay, essentially, the taxes that a human would pay. stuart: i'm just surprised to hear bill gates, the technology guy -- >> right. stuart: technology reduce the work force all over the world, now wanting to show down the march of technology to replace humans. >> maybe he's feeling guilty, who knows? stuart: another day of protest is happening today. this is president's day, but there are not my president's day marches in some parts of the country. look, here's the backdrop to this. the left gets all the publicity out front, but as i understand it, there's now a much more vigorous conservative movement on the college campuses. >> well, look, because -- you can call it conservative, but really liberals used to stand for freedom of expression, and they want it there. they're having their demonstrations in cities, and that's fabulous.

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book now. stuart: you don't often see a first lady warm up the crowd but on saturday afternoon on a warm day in florida, that is what melania trump did. she walked to the mic. the crowd roared their approval. she said let us pray. she recited the lord's prayer. like so many in this very young presidency we've not seen anything like that before. for a generation, america's leaders have rarely put christianity on display. our society moves heaven and earth to, forgive the expression, heaven and earth to banish religion from public life. well-funded athiest groups go to court to ban nativity scenes, christmas trees and crosses from the public square. along comes the first lady in front after large crowd on national television and she

recites the lord's prayer t was a surprise to everyone. the left hated it. social media filled with sarcasm and insult, i will leave it at that approval or not, the first lady laid down a marker. this presidency will not be bound by the left's grip on our culture. for years the left kept america in secular humanist straitjacket. they tried to make everyone publicly conform. along comes the brash, unconventional donald trump, breaking all the rules and the first lady recites the lord's prayer. say it again. you have never seen anything like this before. the second hour of "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ >> let us pray. our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy

kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespasses against us. stuart: i will say it again. this was melania trump citing the lord's prayer at a saturday afternoon in florida. we've seen a lot. pastor robert jeffers is with us. were you surprised? i was sitting at home and watching, i was genuinely surprised. i have not seen anything like that from at least a generation from our leaders, how but? >> i was gratified, stuart, by what i saw and heard but it is keeping in what i know about the first family. their faith is a very private thing to them but very important to them. but stuart, i've got to say, all of this shows the hypocrisy of the liberal left. for the last week the left has been hyperventilating over president trump's criticism of

the president as though he were endangering the first amendment. the well the left needs to remember the same first amendment that protects the freedom of the press also guaranties the free exercise of religion for all americans, and that includes melania trump. stuart: do you think this is the start of a more muscular christianity from the tom of our leaders, a start of something very different? >> i think it is continue wages of it. for the last year-and-a-half donald trump has said that he does not think christianity ought to be marginalized in our culture. and i think you're seeing that on display right now. around i'll tell you another piece of irony, stuart. i believe had this been another first lady and had she been reciting a hindue or muslim prayer, she would have been celebrated by the left for inclusivism. to the left, only religion it is safe to attack is conservative christianity. stuart: what do you make of the

separation of church and state? after all she is the first lady and she recited the lord's prayer? i guess you could make the claim that they shouldn't be doing that. what say you, about church and state separation in this instance? >> well, first of all the separation of church and state is found nowhere in the constitution. whatever it means, we could have a whole discussion, it doesn't mean the separation of faith from public life. stuart, america was founded as christian nation. the supreme court said that in 1865. in 1892. why we welcome people of all faiths or no faith this is country was built on a judeo-christian foundation and the first family is simply carrying on that tradition. stuart: i've got to say that of all the things that president trump has done, all the reversals of what we've seen in the past, nothing surprised me quite as much as melania trump, first lady of the united states, reciting the lord's prayer. last word to you. >> well, as johnny carson used

to say, more to come. stuart: you think. >> i think you will see a lot of surprises in this administration. yes, how refreshing it is. it is should be not only for christians but people of all faiths to see faith celebrated like the first lady this past saturday. stuart: certainly a shake-up? >> yes. stuart: a shake-up 1/2. pastor jeffers, things for joining us as always. >> thank you. stuart: now we have protests against the president's immigration order being held in cities, over the weekend. there were several. today, there are demonstrations and protests in favor of not my presidents' day. there are val rallies across the country. from the "washington examiner," byron york is with us. byron, one month in, all we hear about, rather small demonstrations in sort of big cities across the country which leads me to think that publicly, i think the left is losing some steam. what say you?

>> well, they are pretty small and they do attract disproportionate amount of attention, although we should say right after inauguration day the so-called women's march here in washington was really, really big. basically it is just a fact of news coverage that protests seem to attract disproportionate amount of coverage. that is what is going on. if you look at the polls, trump seems to be very steady with the people who voted for him. the new "fox news poll," job approval i think has him at 48 approve, 47 disapprove. not very different from the election results. stuart: byron, we have a new "rasmussen poll," tracking poll, came out today. 55% approval of president trump. that is a very strong number. and that came after the fiery press conference. i don't think it was taken after the florida event but certainly after some of the more vigorous performances by the president recently.

>> rasmussen uses a different voter screen and gotten ahigher approval rating for trump than some other polls. i always thought it is good idea to average the polls together. some go as low as low 40s. rasmussen is top at 55. cut it in the middle i think the fox poll is right there in the middle. i think basically the support for trump is kind of like the election results last november, not really a surprise for a president doing precisely what he campaigned on doing. stuart: this new immigration order we're expecting sometime this week, we don't know exactly when this week, it will include the seven already-named predominantly muslim nations. is it going to pass legal muster? >> well, my guess is ultimately yes it will. the thing is, there were two constitutional issues raised against the current executive order. the first was that it allegedly deny due process to some people that wanted to enter the

country. the other was unconstitutional religious discrimination against muslims. first of all if trump rescinds that executive order and issues a new one, all the lawsuits against the old one go away. but, around i think trump will fix the problems on the due process complaints. however, i think we should expect a ton of lawsuits against the new order alleging that there is some sort of unconstitutional religious discrimination. trump has a very strong case against that argument. but we'll probably see it go to the supreme court can. stuart: we shall. byron york as always,. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: see you soon. back to all the demonstrations we've been seeing recently. we hear of dozens of workers who took part in the demonstration last week, it was a walkout, the day without immigrants protest? we hear some of those workers who walked out have been fired, cheryl. >> dozens have. several were told by their bosses do not take tomorrow off. there will be consequences. of them now have been fired.

the first start with 12 latino employees at the i don't care bar and grill in tulsa, oklahoma. they were fired. they thought they were going to get reprimanded. the boss said don't take the day off. we're staying open. er this now without that. six people fired from the jobs at bahama breeze, king of prussia, pennsylvania. i could go on and on the 18 workers, bradley coatings, another part of the country, told you need to come to work. there are several instarses of small business. the small businesses need workers there. we hire you to be there. stuart: if you deliberately walk out of your job for a political purpose knowing you're going to hurt the business that employs you you have ground to be fired. ashley: what do you expect will happen. stuart: if you've been warned in advance you can expect it be fired. this whole thing was an attempt to, to distort president trump's position on immigration. he favors get deporting criminal

illegals. these demonstrators are try toking say president trump and america hates all immigrants which is clear nonsense. >> you can't expect, to be in this country, we work. americans like to go to work. how much vacation do we take versus the europeans you know? so if you want to be america work here in america, join the russ of us that worked on thursday. stuart: you realize ashley and i -- ashley: we showed up. >> i was there with you. stuart: we're immigrants. >> yeah. stuart: i like being -- i really do. how about this one? here is success for you. elon musk's space firm, it is called spacex, successfully launched a rocket carrying a cargo for the international space station, and better yet the rocket successfully landed back on the launching pad back in florida.

that is a success. up without a hitch. down without a hitch. ashley: there you go. there it is. that is very cool. stuart: it is reusable. ashley: yes. stuart: that means private enterprise is introduced something very interesting in our space program. >> good point about the launchpad as well. stuart: it is one that the moonshot took off from there. look at that. how do they do that? ashley: coolest thing ever. thank you very much. stuart: i changed my opinion on elon musk. [laughter]. "the new york times" says president trump doesn't know anything about black life. what do you youtube stars, diamond and silk have to say about that? you will get an earful in a moment, let me tell you. ♪ dear predictable, there's no other way to say this.

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stuart: as we told you for most of morning, and you've seen it, melania trump cited the lord's prayer over the weekend. the left was utterly outraged at this especially on twitter. ashley will tell us then what happened? ashley: one particular very nasty, vial, twitter account that went on and on about melania. can only imagine what they were saying. i will not talk about it, with our colleague here at fox business, courtney crawford said, what are the rules? why is this account still up? why isn't being suspended. they posted here are the rules. putting pressure, now we understand the account has been suspended. very, very vial reaction to the first lady reciting the lord's prayer and bringing in all sorts of issues. stuart: it is free speech, isn't it? ashley: it is free speech but at some point -- stuart: you have to see the rules. what are the rules? at what point do you break those rules.what is vial or

what not. this is vial by anyone's standard. stuart: don't read it. ashley: i am not going to. stuart: now this. this is cool, so i'm told, fox's gary best -- gastelu, driving all-wheel drive challenger, doing doughnuts into the snow. gary, are you telling me this is the first american all-wheel drive muscle car? is that why you're doing this thing? ashley: there he goes. >> it is first all-wheel drive two-door muscle car, that's right. dodge is the first one. charger, four-door had, a lot of people are not buying car because they need all-wheel drive. this great track happens to be covered in snow today. normally wouldn't do this in a muscle car. this is fantastic. they tuned it still can do

doughnuts. it acts like a rear wheel drive car. but when you get stuck you have the traction. i'm not having trouble getting out of these turns. stuart: the fact it is all wheel drive, that is a first for a muscle car, is that correct? >> that's correct. you can't get a mustang with all-wheel drive. you can't get a camaro with a all-wheel drive. this is competitive advantage for dodge right now. this car has been on sale since 2008. it is one of the oldest cars of the market today. they keep reinventing it. last two years, best sales yet. this should help them get more sales in the 17 snow states and snow belts. stuart: gary, i want a truthful answer to this question. if i were to drive that car at my age, and do what you are doing now, would i look ridiculous? [laughter] >> you would look fantastic this is perfect for you. remember the original challenger was, 50 years ago? so, you know, i think it is from

your era anyway, stuart. stuart: 50 years ago. owe got that in. >> i'm not a very good driver. i'm not a good driver. this is making it look very easy. ashley: how cool. stuart: i do remember 50 years ago. ashley: yes, you do remember. stuart: i do remember it, yes. it is not that far away. ashley: see you do that in the chrysler van. stuart: can't do that. but i did own a porsche 911. >> oh. stuart: with one of those whale tails to stablize it. big fat racing wheels. >> i can see you channeling your inare james bond. stuart: yes but that was a long time ago. i can't drive a car like that these days. gas -- gas he is doing doughnuts in an hour. we'll get back to you. how about this snap, used to be called snapchat, but now snap. there are reports of a secretive product development lab. anything new.

ashley: begins its road show in london a today, out there saying we can build hot hardware gauge gets and some software. we'll be a lot more than an app which provides disappearing messages that is the word as it drums up excitement for the ipo. a lot of questions being asked. what do you value this company at? they reduced value down to 19 billion at the low end. user growth is dropping off. they can't make money. so as they hit the road today in europe to start building momentum for their ipo, they're trying to say ah, we'll be basicallys turn themselves into a camera company. that is what we hear. >> another example of investors have to be careful when you get the big flashy ipos. don't listen to what goldman sachs tells you about the company and how great it is and valued at $25 billion do your research, understand what the company does and do you believe in the business model.

a lot of times it isn't fleshed out. stuart: cheryl casone not that much in favor of snap. >> ipo. it is fun for an app. stuart: how about this one for you, a driver caught riding with a life-like dummy in the carpool lane. this is in tacoma, washington. ashley: hello. stuart: the blonde mannequin was buckled into the passenger seat. it was fined for speeding. that happens a lot in los angeles. ashley: good-looking. stuart: would have fooled me. we have a new study, that says the dow could hit 30,000 at the end of the trump's first term. it is not a study, but a headline by a guy. we'll have them for you in a moment. stay there. ♪ your insurance company

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♪ stuart: kind of laid-back. i remember that, mamas and the papas from way back when. monday, monday, laid-back -- ashley: california laid-back sound. stuart: our competitors may be laid-back because they're not on the air. they're actually sleeping i believe. but we are alive and well and we're eager to cover politics and money. ashley: never a dull moment. >> there is plenty to cover today. stuart: ain't that right, cheryl. thank you very much. for a start, take a look at this, headline, "new york times," op-ed page, why donald trump doesn't understand black life. well, let's get an answer to that one from youtube stars diamond and silk, former democrats turned very eloquent trump supporters. diamond and silk, welcome back. always good to see you, ladies,

how are you. >> thank you for having us. stuart: okay. you used to fill out each other's sentences now you speak in unison. what would you like to say to the "new york times" when they say, hey, trump president, doesn't understand you, what would you like to say? >> well "the new york times" is lying. >> president trump do understand black life. he understand the black lives of chicago that has been rivetted by crime. he understand the urban and inner cities needs to be rebuilt in detroit. he understands that black lives need jobs. they need opportunities. they want to be entrepreneurs. so he understands black lives very well. >> and he also understand that black lives are included as americans, and that's why we are all-americans first. stuart: well "the times" says that mr. trump, here is the quote, he has long trafficked in racist rhetoric. what do you say to that? >> that's a lie.

that's a lie. you know what? when i look at some of these groups like the naacp and the congressional black caucuses, these people are supposed to represent black people they don't represent black people building up inner and urban cities. they haven't thought of that idea. >> that's right. >> they're so busy trying to fight the president, how about coming together so that we can build and inner and urban cities. >> exactly. >> so president trump is only one talking about it. and when they can't be right, they call him a racist. stuart: what do you make of the president's style, especially at that rally in orlando, i'm sorry in florida over the weekend? seemed to us he was back in campaign style. did you like it? >> listen, we was there. we were on stage. we opened up for it. we loved it. stuart: you were there, i didn't know. i didn't know. what did you say? >> we was there. he won this campaign by the people. we were so happy at that he was

back out there with we the people it will take we the people to make sure everything is in line of the agenda being pushed. borders are secure. jobs will come back where we can thrive. baby, this country will be safe again. stuart: lots of protests around the country today. the protests are called, not my president. it is president's day, they are saying you are not my president. what is your response to that? go ahead. >> well, if you are an illegal i immigrant, you may be right. go back to your country and live with your president. what i want to say to liberals and teary-eyed snowflakes. get on the trump train or get the hell out of the way before they melt away. >> that's right. >> baby, he is already in the white house and if you live in the united states, he is your president. stuart: you know, when i do interviews, i often lean in towards my guests like i'm doing now. kind of lean in. but when you ladies are on the

screen, i got to whoa, get right back, because you're coming at me like a freight train. i like it. will you come again? >> we will come again. choo-choo, baby, yes. stuart: did you get a lot of recognition in florida? >> we sure do. we got a lot of love in florida. shoutout to all of our fans. we love you all. >> we love you all. stuart: love having you on the show. you're lively. we like that. >> thank you the. stuart: you come see us again soon. thank you, ladies appreciate it. diamond and silk, absolutely unique. >> at the rally. i didn't know that. stuart: i didn't know. because the cameras didn't take the rally until melania. i didn't see them warming up the crowd. ashley: there they are. stuart: lots of recognition. i wish i could have seen that. ashley: how great is that? stuart: yes. look, if you're a trump supporter that is good stuff. if you're not a trump supporter, you don't like it. that is the way it is. investors will not like this. leading senator lindsey graham,

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stuart: senator lindsey graham is not confident, actually he is throwing a lot of cold water on the house tax-cutting plan, which speaker ryan tried to sell to republicans in the senate. listen to senator lindsey graham.

>> the congress is stumbling. republican ins the congress. we're all tied up in knots. the house is talking about a tax plan that won't get 10 votes in the senate. so it is just not the administration that has got problems. republicans in the house and the senate have problems and i hope we will get our act together. stuart: i will repeat that. not 10 votes in the senate for the tax plan that house republicans are coming up with. coming on here now is kevin brady, chair of the house ways and means committee. that is the committee that writes the tax plan. congressman, that was pretty strong stuff from senator graham. he seems, i believe it centers on the border tax, the border adjustment tax. that's the problem for the senate. is that accurate? >> well, i'm not too worried about that. look, we still have more work to do. we're going very bold on tax reform so america can leapfrog back in the lead of the pack as most pro-growth places on planet.

no one can defend the current tax code that favors foreign products over u.s. products. we want to senate to continue to look at it. i was encouraged by the former ceo of walmart bill simon's commen look at the whole blueprint. it is awfully pro-growth. border adjustability is a piece of that. it encourages boards and ceos to look not just as the short term but long term where it takes the country. we're asking lawmakers to do the same. stuart: congressman, i have to press this, when senator graham says you won't get 10 votes for a tax-cutting plan, you won't get 10 votes because it contains the border tax, that is very strong stuff. are you going to keep that border tax in your tax cut proposal? >> absolutely. here's why. we are not going to continue the current tax code that favors foreign products over u.s. products. we proposed that all these products be taxed equally in the

united states, at the a same low business rate of 20%. that does a couple incredit ab things. one, it is pro-growth and pro-consumer. secondly allows us to simplify our international tax code to become competitive. here is the maybe the most important thing. we eliminate through that provision, along with our low rates, and no longer taxing worldwide, we eliminate every tax incentive to move jobs-off seas. in fact just the opposite. we re-establish america as a magnet for new business investment in the 21st century. so we are thinking long term. that is why we're going so bold. stuart: there is one forecast that the dow will hit 30,000, it is at 20,000 now, the forecast it hits 30,000 at the end of president trump's first term, if he gets his entire legislative proposal through the congress. it is enacted and we get 4% growth. i put it to you, congressman, if the border tax is a sticking point and the senate won't go

for it, you will not get the entire schedule through congress on time. will you? >> well, i don't know that i agree with that, and i'm, i'll tell you this, we are building support every day for taxing products equally in the united states. people are slowly starting to realize it is key to lower tax rates for businesses of all sizes. it's key for us being able to export our made in america products around the world which today gets slapped with import taxes in other countries. it is tough for them to compete. and tax them equally as well. you have really made america a strong location for that new job, new business investment. so just have to tell you i think at the end of the day, let me predict for you, stuart, this will be part of the overall tax reform. stuart: the border tax is really about paying for the tax cuts for businesses and individuals. that's what it is all about. >> no, it really isn't, sir, i apologize here.

this is about equal taxation in the u.s. it is meeting what our competitors do to it our american-made products. they slap taxes on them when they enter the country. they take it off their products in the united states. we're about the only country left, other than cuba and north korea, a few others that don't do that. leveling the playing field here in the u.s. is incredibly pro-growth and at the end of the day it will be part of the tax reform blueprint. stuart: we appreciate you coming on board today, on a holiday. i'm sure it not a holiday for you, sir. you're hard at work. we thank for taking time out. >> no it is not. thank you, stuart. stuart: kevin brady, everyone. >> sure. stuart: i have a headline for you. we're taking a look at, look at this. i'm a democrat and ex-cia but the spies plotting against trump are out of control. who said that? former cia operations officer brian dean wright who is with us now.

so, let's see now, that's strong stuff. >> yeah. stuart: do you think you will catch these people who are doing it? >> we have to, because the consequences we don't, if we allow this continue to move forward are dramatic for the republic. you can't have a group of unelected individuals who gets to be the political winners and political losers. that is deeply problematic for this country. stuart: it is sabotage. >> it sure is, sabotaging the trump administration because you don't know when the leaks will stop. >> it started this fall with the whole dossier, cia director brennan pushing it forward but not intel community information. we have continuing leaks. allegations of holding back intelligence. there has been a game being played for the last number of months and it is not good for this country. think about this. in four years if the liberal spies as it were get their way, all right, conservative spies deal with 2020 bernie sanders president. they will want revenge.

that is the slippery slope i am deeply concerned about. it happens other places and shouldn't happen here. stuart: you're ex-cia operations manager. that is what you did. >> operations officer, that's right. stuart: surely people within the cia don't want this kind of thing. they are professionals and they obey the boss and the boss is the president. >> you bring up a very important point. our spies are working very hard to keep this country safe, lower middle tiered spies doing god's work. they don't get involved with this goofy stuff. who is doing, 7th floor, senior folks used to be the with the obama administration. i have credibility. i worked there a year ago. they wanted jobs in the clinton administration and didn't get them. with we have a little bit of that going on. connection between president trump and his cadre of followers, his administration and russian government. that needs to be investigated and it should be but needs to

stay within the department of justice and congress where it belongs. it should not be prosecuted in "the new york times," cnn and the rest. stuart: suppose one of the leakers is caught and they know he or she did it. what should they be charged with? >> my goodness. i know where they need to go. stuart: what should they be charged with? >> treason. breaking u.s. laws around classified information. that is the lowest of hanging fruit. more difficult challenge from prosecutorial perspective would be treason. absolutely these folks doing this, there needs to be a penalty paid and it needs to be severe. stuart: odds are we will not catch them. very difficult? >> it is not impossible. auld rich james, in '80s and '90s, he said i get to know what the country ought to do the. i will talk to the russians and follow national security according to my own conviction. we can do it, find these guys, but we can do it. stuart: brian dean wright. interesting stuff.

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stuart: that's a good story. >> i like to talk about this. stuart: thank you, cheryl. how about this? the mayor of london attacking president trump saying the president should be denied a state visit to the united kingdom. how about that? we'll be right back. every chip, and every putt, is data that can make the difference between winning and losing. the microsoft cloud helps the pga tour turn countless points of data into insights that transform their business and will enhance the game for players and fans. the microsoft cloud turns information into insight.

ashley: now this. conservative radio show host rush limbaugh dismissing russian

influence on the election as preposterous. listen what he had to say on "fox news sunday." roll tape. >> in my view it is preposterous to believe that the russians had any effect on the out come of voting in this country. it is absurd. there is no evidence, zilch, zero, nada. "the new york times" has run two stories basically propaganda on this. one in october and one this past week. both stories clearly say, no evidence, nobody they have talked to has any evidence whatsoever to suggest it. ♪

stuart: a draft of president trump's revised immigration and travel restrictions, according to "the wall street journal," a draft of that new restriction, it targets the same seven countries listed in the original executive order, but, it allows in, freely visa holders, green cardholders around dual citizens. got it? missouri secretary of state jay ashcroft is with us. the obvious question, jay, will this one pass legal muster? >> i think without any doubt it will, thank you for having me on. obviously there will be people that will complain. you can file lawsuits for any reason.

clearly this executive order as we've seen drafts of it is well within the constitutional authority for the president of the night. stuart: because it cleans up the mess that was created when we didn't realize who was covered by the first executive order and who wasn't. it cleans it up. that is why you're saying it is okay? >> yeah. it is much more clear. if you look at what the district court's opinion was though it wasn't very clear. some of the things we mentioned were concerns about green cardholders and other people that already had the right to be here. what we've seen of the draft it is clear that those individuals have the right to be here are not excluded. we're making sure that people would come here to do us harm are not allowed in. stuart: but a corporation, which has employees, which might be affected by this new executive order, they could still go to court and say, i have standing, we have standing in this court, because, our people will be harmed. it doesn't get rid of that whole class of litigation, does it? >> no.

as i think, everyone has seen, you can sue for almost any reason in the united states. unfortunately we have frivolous lawsuits all the time, but with what i have seen on how this draft will be written, when it gets to judges that actually interpret the law instead of deciding what they want the law to be, it will stand. it will be good law and right thing to do for the people of this country. stuart: it will be legally challenged. will it go the same path? will it go again to the ninth circuit court of appeal which is the most liberal and overturned in the country? >> i would assume it will. if i were going to litigate this, commonly called the ninth circus court of appeals jokingly. some people say it has been keeping the supreme court in business for decades so they have cases to hear. they will go there but at some point it will come to judges that will look at the law and instead of opposing their own will, they will come back to the rule of law and say this is appropriate under the constitution and the laws of the united states.

stuart: how many state attorneys general feel the same way that you do? >> how many will publicly say it and how many understand that? i would say the vast majority of them understand that the rule of law is a founding principle of this country and would agree with that. for political purposes obviously you have some that are on opposing political sides that will make arguments in the other direction. but clearly we all need to have a rule of law where you know what the law is, it is what it says and we know how we can act. under that approach this executive order will be upheld. stuart: jay ashcroft, thank you for joining us. great attorney general for the great state of missouri. thank you. >> thank you for having me. stuart: the mayor of london says president should not be allowed to given a state voice to it britain. ashley: sadiq khan, he says, president trump's travel restriction, shameful and cruel immigration policies and we

should not roll out the red carpet for president trump. parliament also is debating this petition to stop president trump's visit from being a state visit. what a state visit mean? you get all the pomp and circumstance. it involves reception by the queen. now the petition says it will be too much of an embarassment for her majesty to meet with president trump. now there is counterpetition saying the uk is a, one of the strongest believers in free speech. donald trump is leader of the free world. he absolutely should have a state visit. stuart: cheryl. >> is this the same country that wanted to leave the european union because they were tired of immigration and problems with regards to immigration? just checking if i missed something. ashley: yes. stuart: sadiq kahn, the mayor of london was all in favor of brits staying in europe. ashley: of course. stuart: they voted to leave europe. >> the people voted like they did here so. stuart: they did. got it. and this. florida, miami-dade county

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further, i want you to tell us the story about your mom and dad. they were watching you at home. tell us the story. >> yes. they were just sitting at home watching the rally like any normal family would do. and all of sudden they see their son pop up on stage. they literally fell backwards. they were so shocked. stuart: you must have been shocked when the president just picked you out of the crowd. what was the first thing that ran through your head? >> i tell you, i could not believe it. i was in shock myself. i saw him point at me. i was like, is he pointing at me? and it all started because i was first one in line. that is how it started. stuart: there is another story i want you to tell our viewers. as i understand this, first thing in the morning you have a cardboard cutout of our president in your house. take me through your morning. what do you do? >> absolutely.

i walk in. i salute the president. good morning, mr. president. i pray for your safety. i thank you for what you do for us. have a wonderful day. and i move on. exactly right, stuart. stuart: what is the reaction of your coworkers? you work in a car dealership, i know that? >> yes, i do. stuart: what is the reaction of your coworkers? >> well you know, me and my buddy actually are best friend of mine, tom connor. i don't have too many people around us in that way. just the friends and people that, seeing me on tv, it is outrageous. stuart: are you having a good time? you're having a good time, i know you are. >> i really am, i really am, stuart. i'm just here to be a spokesman for our president as well as our movement. for me to take an opportunity to be in front of a camera, i will do it for him. and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance

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stuart: it was early 1960's and was a teenager just getting interested in politics. i heard on the news about awry yacht at an american university, berkeley, california led by a name named mario sabio, in those days political activity believe it or not was bound on the berkeley campus. sabio launched the free-speech movement and he won. my, how times are changed. there are now riots at berkeley where the left is denying free speech to anyone who doesn't share their views. well, hold on, everybody, because the times are changing again. conservatism is now on the rise on campuses and in britain. they won't debate ideas, they'll just call you names and try to shut you down. that has produced a vigorous backlash. young americans for liberty has

expanded to 804 chapters with over 300,000 members. so-called speak easy groups are flourishing where students can express conservative opinion. one british study say it is current generation of students is the most conservative since 1945. what a wonderful thing this is. the essence of a university education is free and open debate, you test your views in intellectual combats. thank goodness it's making a comeback. something is going on. it's hard to put your finger on exactly what's going on but the signs are everywhere. free speech on campus, who would have thought? oh, to be young again. in the third hour of varney & company is about to begin. ♪ ♪ ♪

[laughter] stuart: i like that. george michael, freedom on this president's day. by the way, we are working the other guys are not. let's get to your money. one market say that is the dow could hit 30,000 at the end of president trump's first term if he gets all proposals and the economy grows at 4%. do all of that and we will hit 30,000, so says one market, watch out. let's bring in another market watcher that joins us from capital wave strategist, i believe he's out in the hamptons. is that where you're at? you must be making a ton of money. [laughter] stuart: there's always caveats, you have to get the entire

legislative on schedule and then you'll hit 30,000. >> there are a lot of assumptions in the reports, stuart, and those assumptions can come through and i still think that the market can get to 30,000 in four years anyway. 9,376 points from where we are today, sounds like a lot in dow, we came up 2,000 points in what four months. so is it possible to do 9,376 in four years, yes, that's entirely possible. the metrics are possible because as i said on your show the other day, there are fewer shares available for investors every day bybacks, mergers and acquisitions and the market has a firm bid under it and if we get any of donald trump's proposed promises and the market can certainly do that. it's entirely in in the realm of possibility. stuart: you know what everybody else says, as soon as the market goes wildly bullish, it's the time to sell, they always get it

wrong, time to sell, get out while you can't. you're not going to discount that argument completely, are you? >> yes, i am going to. back in 2009, a lot of folks say get out, the higher we go, the more dangerous it is. if you haven't gotten anywhere along the way, you would be sitting on the sidelines making markets making record highs. if you have money, it's time to put money in gently, not at one time but best to play the entire market. when the earnings come at, they get clobbered. but the market itself has a firm bid under it and has a long way to go. stuart: an end exfund, basically, something that track it is dow, s&p or the nasdaq,

tracks the financial stuff? >> yes. stuart: that's the way you'd go? >> that's a safe way to go because it's easy liquidity. you can pick an industry. an entire market. there's all kinds of best ways to play this. investors on the sidelines and they may be a little bit nervous and should be, the entire market is a very safe place to be. with the market where it is, you can put stops in your order ifs you start to lose a little bit, wait and get back in. but you have to be in because we may continue to go higher. in 2009, everybody who waited is crying right now. stuart: you know, if you're wrong you won't be joining us from the hamptons, you'll be joining me in new jersey. [laughter] >> that's the way it works. >> that's a fine place, i would be happy to be with you. stuart: you have a deal, sir. if we get all the president's

proposals and the economy grows 4%, you're saying 30,000 is not out of the question four years from now. interesting. >> not at all. stuart: thanks for joining us. a lot of people expected that the not my president's day rallies which will be held across various parts of the country today protesting president trump, of course, dane joins us, apple metro ceo. i kind of like you. >> i would like to know what's wrong with new jersey. [laughter] stuart: you're a ft. lauderdale kind of guy? >> no. stuart: beating that drum all over the place, i think it's losing some steam. >> any change, you know, requires or creates backlash. change is scary, change is

worrisome and same ole is comfortable. he's more changed than what we have experienced in the last number of years or backlash. stuart: i think it was last week, thursday or wednesday, there was -- >> i know what you're going to say. >> all immigrants, foreign-born, close your business and don't go shopping. some of the people who did that left their jobs have been fired. >> yeah. stuart: a hundred people. you're in the apple business, you're in the food service business, would you have fired people who didn't show up? >> well, franklyic they got fired for a different reason and has nothing to do with anything other not being engaged in your job. they were what we call in this business no-call, no-show. they didn't say they weren't coming in, they didn't ask for permission and that didn't show up. that merits firing today as well as the immigrant day. it has nothing to do with that. having said that, so help me god, i do not know a single person that went into that works

for us and we have thousands that marched in that protest. not one. i don't know of one. i'm not telling you out of the thousands we haven't had one but i don't know of a single one. number one, number two, we have laws. they come here with those laws and you abide by them or don't come here. stuart: sure. >> but i'm compassionate, i need to say for people who were born here, some of our best, best people were immigrants, correct? stuart: sure. >> i'm talking to one, in fact,. they know the rules, they know the laws, come in and that's what it is. stuart: when i came 40 years ago there was no question about it, you overstayed your visa or came across the border illegally, you were toast, you were gone. nowadays if i criticize someone who was here illegally i'm a racist, i'm antihispanic. >> it's the law of the law is and if you don't come here

intend to go abide by the law, you should go back quite frankly. let's not confuse what the immigrant day was, people that did a no-call, no-show would be termed no matter what day it was, whether it was day or not. stuart: ceo walked away, resigned, what do you make of that? >> that's what the press said. stuart: and what do you say? >> i think it takes a different skill set to operate a large company in a difficult time than it does -- the retreat is more difficult than the charge and when applebee's was the thousand pound gorilla, still is, by the way, it takes skill set and she did quite well and bumps in the road, the legacy brands, big names that have been around start to hit some turbulence and the skill set that it took to

work through that is a different skill set. having said that, she picked a -- an initiative two years ago which was new stakes, hand cut, change grills, turn and it didn't work. the consumer rejected it and when the consumer rejected it, she didn't respond quickly enough. if the consumer accepted it and went straight up, she would be getting big bonuses, wouldn't she? who wears it? stuart: i i don't want to cross you. >> you always can.about ten sec. thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks so much for having me. stuart: sure thing. two items on immigration, first president trump plan on signing a whole new executive order on travel restrictions, should be doing that this week, details coming up. second item, miami-dade vote to

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stuart: the miami-dade county commission has voted to end its sanctuary status that would comply with president trump's executive order. joining us carlos giménez, mayor of miami-dade county. your honor, welcome to the program, very good to see you, sir. >> nice to be here. stuart: sir, most areas which have a large number of hispanic people within them are very strong on maintaining the

sanctuary city status or sanctuary area status, why is it that you have gone to get rid of the sanctuary status? >> well, we never considered ourselves to be a sanctuary city or sanctuary community here in miami-dade county. that label was put on us back in may of 2016 by the justice department and the obama administration because we refused to honor detainer requests unless the federal government would guaranty reimbursement for the costs of those detainers, that policy was implemented back in 2014 and because of that policy, the sanctuary community or possible sanctuary community was put on miami-dade county. we simply reversed that resolution that called for that reimbursement and once we did that, then that -- that issue then is behind us. stuart: what is the relationship in miami-dade county, what's the relationship now between ice, immigration officials at the

federal level and local law enforcement? what's the relationship between the two? >> well, there's always been a communication, at least in terms of sharing of information between miami-dade county and all federal agencies and so our -- what we do is if you get arrested for committing a crime in miami-dade, we will fingerprint you and take your picture and send that information around the nation. ice is the one that tells us that they have an interest in the individual and so for the last couple of weeks since -- since we've changed the policy here, we've had something like 50 detainer requests, most of these are repeat offenders, a lot of them have pretty serious crimes but we actually don't know who is an undocumented or illegal immigrant here when we arrest you. that's not what we do. we do our job and ice does their job. that's the way it should be. stuart: why sit that some sanctuary cities elsewhere in

the country are still strong on maintaining the status, they have organized taxpayer funds to defend illegals who are swept up in this instance? why are they so strong in maintaining the sanctuary city standard? is it votes, is it local voting, is that what it's about? >> if you ask me politics has to do with it. the immigrant make-up here in miami-dade is different than in other parts of the country. but we basically have never thought ourselves as a sanctuary city. we cooperate with the federal authorities. our police officers are not now and will not be immigration officers, that's the job of the federal government, but if somebody is arrested here in miami-dade county, we share that information with federal, state, local police agencies across the country, whether you are a citizen, resident, visitor or immigrant or undocumented

immigrant, it doesn't matter to us. now, if ice wants us to detain that individual, we will do that for 48 hours regardless of the fact if they will pay us for those costs or not. stuart: okay. carlos giménez, mayor of miami-dade county, thank you for joining us, sir, we appreciate it. thank you. >> it's my pleasure. stuart: your honor, thank you. now this, the trump administration is planning a new immigration order this week, maybe this week after courts held up the original immigration and travel restriction order. can you spell out what will be in the new order? ashley: ill still targets seven countries that were identified in the first order, terror hot spots but here are the exceptions that we believe will be contained in this new order coming out this week sometime. they include green card holders will be exempt as will travelers with visas and dual citizens. those are the folks that got caught up in the first round of this stuck overseas when they

had valid visas, they were green card holders and dual citizens. that has been addressed. stuart: so therein -- despite the fact that there's probably 60,000 visa holders from those seven countries -- ashley: yes. stuart: they would be allowed? that's a key difference. ashley: people will be saying, you're still targeting the seven countries and that is unconstitutional because you're basing it on faith. majority-muslim countries. stuart: it's going to go back to court? >> you know it's going to go back there. stuart: it's been slimmed down. ashley: it'll be interesting. stuart: bill gates, he's the world's richest guy. he says if robots take a human job, the robot should pay taxes. [laughter] stuart: isn't that interesting?

he has displaced a lot of human beings now want to tax robots.

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stuart: it's president's day and this is happening right now. the ceremony in mount vernon virginia, it is celebrating the 285th birthday of our first president, george washington. right there in mount vernon happening now. billionaire and the world's richest man, robots that take a human job, those robots, you have to tax them. you want to explain that ashley: yeah, but do they get a refund and who files for them? bill gates say they are stealing human jobs and they should pay their fair shares of taxes otherwise we are going to have a massive deficit $2.7 trillions if you are a bunch of machine that is will do the work of people that would normally get salary and pay taxes. that idea is floating around in

the eu, in europe, the europe lawmakers proposed and was rejected but profits on robots could be used as a tax offset. in other words, they have to find a way to make up for the taxes, as you point out bill gates was instrumental in letting takes jobs away from people. stuart: how many people lost jobs when microsoft came? ashley: 50% of jobs could be replaced by a robot. think about that. [laughter] stuart: ned was his name and smashed the mills, the cotton spinning machines in 1850 because he was ruining the rural economy. that's part of the reason. ned was around before 1850. a-level history.

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stuart: british parliament debates today whether or not they should be addressed by president trump. there's a substantial body of opinion that says, we don't want him to talk to parliament. herve london is with us. he's with us this morning. that would be such a snub and a snub against free speech, that's my opinion. what's yours? >> i couldn't agree with you more. one of the problems that you've had with free speech in american campuses that it's free speech for me not to be. so what you have is a strange

orthodoxy which has effect on american society. stuart: this is the home of mother of all democracies, i would think so. >> i would think so. if you look at people like hannon he would be outraged. stuart: interesting guy. >> a wonderful guy. stuart: articulate sort of fellow. not necessarily a trump supporter. >> not necessarily a trump supporter but a brexit supporter. stuart: there's also a move to stop president trump making a state visit to the home of britain, din we are the queen and salute, that would be a dreadful snub and i can't believe the brits would do it. >> that makes good tabloid reading but i don't think it's going to happen. stuart: now, you mentioned that conservatism on american

campuses being kind of relegated being pushed out. we believe that it's actually starting to come back. there are various conservative groups which are expanding rapidly on campus. i'm sure would be please today hear the this! >> i also think it's not true because it may be true with students but find the faculty member that is represent the counterparts of the students. i'm the chairman of association of scholars, a group of people who believe in free and open exchange of opinion. we have 3,000 members. there are 3 faculty members in the united states. so we are a tinny, tinny portions of those faculty members that believe in the idea of free exchange. stuart: have you having to deal with the boycott israel? >> we certainly are. i wrote a book about the subject, yes, indeed, i feel strongly about it. stuart: how does that did he feel come to american campus where you don't want anything to do with israel? what's going on here?

>> what you have to understand the left-wing orthodoxy has become on campus. during the course of my experience, one of the things i discovered that very few faculty members were able to embrace a different opinion than theirs. if you believe differently, you're going to be chasing by the experience. stuart: faculty in american universities today is largely made up of the students who were in revolt in the 1960's, they graduated from revolt against vietnam and favored civil rights, they graduated towards a far-left socialist position. >> this is the ten-year radical. the ten-year radical is the member who runs university in the united states. obviously there are exceptions. there are exceptions but by in large this is the prevailing view in the academy.

stuart: so you don't think that this conservatism making an appear -- appearance amount to more than beans? >> you have all the conservative groups across the country, people like -- there were wonderful scholars who fall into the category, by in large, unless faculty members embrace it and administrators, has very little meaning. stuart: when you were a student and i don't know which college you went -- >> i went to colombia. stuart: you went to colombia? >> were you a radical back in the day? >> yes, i was. i stood against it and i was called a radical for taking the position. i hold the same position today and i'm called a conservative. stuart: were you ever on the left? >> i was on the left, before i was mugged by reality, i was on the left, absolutely. tauter stuart what -- stuart:

what changed you? >> meeting people and understand the way markets think. stuart: you had to stop paying a strong tax rate? [laughter] >> always a pleasure to be with you. stuart: president trump now cutting coal regulations, you know that. he appeared not too long ago with a whole bunch of miners in virginia. question, can that bring the coal industry back anywhere close to where it was? personally, i don't think so. robert joins us now and he's the senior of mnari editor corporation. he's smiling because he heard my opinion that coal cannot make a comeback to where it was and you are going to take me on, aren't you, sir? >> well, i think so to a point, stuart, and good morning. the coal industry, you're

correct cannot come back to the 1.2 billion tons of production that proceeded barack obama and his democrat friends. they destroyed the industry down to 760 million tons now. it can't come back at the same time china coal production moved up to 4 billion tons. we are one sixth or so of the chinese industry now. it can't be brought back but if he creates jobs as he says he will do and the economy grows, people in their homes don't use much electricity, stuart, but the factories do. stuart: what about the price? frankers are producing enormous quantity comparing with coal. can you compete on price? >> yes, i can.

the problem is we have windmills and solar panels that get 30% tax credit. coal costs 4 cents a kilowatt hour. wind mills and solar panels cost 26 cents a kilowatt hour and they get subsidy from you the taxpayer. get the government out of the energy business, put it back to private enterprise, not government enterprise and you give me the ball, stuart and i will compete with natural gas all day long because my coal is cheaper than natural gas which has been 15 cents a kilowatt hour. it is lower than that now but we can take them on but we need to get the government out, we need to get a level playing field and coal can complete. stuart: any environmentalist who is watching the program, they are saying, you, sir, robert murray, you are a polluter, you are going to produce more coal, we are going to burn more coal

and we are going to get a whole lot co2 emissions and you, sir, are killing the planet, that's what they are saying, what's your response? >> my response isly take what the obama epa said in his study, you can shut down every coal fire plant, stuart, in the united states of america and it would have inmeasurable effect, that's their word on global temperatures, 0.0-degrees fahrenheit, that is inmeasurable. stuart: so, you're not a polluter and you're going to produce more coal? >> i care just as much about the environment as radical environmentalists but i also care about jobs and america. it was so reward to go see my coal miners there on thursday with the president with their boots on in the oval office. stuart: are you going to hire more coal people in your company? >> yes, if we can get the

markets back. the bill he signed thursday was just the start. there are many, many more that we have to get rid of including the clean power plant which my company has to stay before the supreme court last february. we have to overturn that. we have the cut the bureaucracy in washington for at least half. we have to get rid of subsidies for windmills and solar panels and then we will get down to low-cost electricity, my coal miners will come back to work as the economy grows. stuart: always a pleasure, thanks for coming on this president's day. >> thank you, sir.

ashley: unilever said not interesting. that would be $143 billion. ultimately people on both sides said the companies would have a hard time meshing. they'll but a culture clash and ultimately they felt it wasn't going to work. an interesting story in the financial times this weekend saying that downing street, theresa may got involved and we wanted to know what's going on that heinz craft we wanted to take over unilever. they are strongly denying that. you need to ask why contract heinz why they pulled off. stuart: but it's off? ashley: for now. stuart: he dropped out of the race to run the democrat party,

he's actually dropped his own candidacy and is endorsing the man on the right, minnesota congressman keith ellison, what barkley has done is mocking the left to joining it. we will be back

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stuart: ray buckley chair it is democratic party, he was running for chairing the national party and appeared in the program last week. listen to what he had to say. >> but what we need to do is acknowledge that there was a lot of anxiety and while the economy was significantly better after eight years of barack obama it was not where it was for the average working-class family to feel that their future was

moving forward and they could actually fulfill the american dream. we should have addressed that more. i think it's the anxiety that exists, not just through the midwest but through the entire country. it's very real. stuart: this was last week. centrist democrat for running the democrat party. now we find that that gentleman has dropped out of the race to chair the dnc and actually endorsed a far, far, far left congressman keith ellison for the job as well. mercedes slap -- sclapp. i'm sorry about that. i'm frankly amazed that a man who is very much in the center of the democrat party should drop out of the race and endorse keith ellison. do you know what's going on? >> it's called politics. this is what happened in the democratic national committee,

it happens on the republican side as well. you negotiate the deals with them in terms of trying to figure out how you can reduce the number of candidate who is are running. remember, stuart, there are ten candidates that were signed up -- who put their hats in to the ring to run for dnc chair and then people start forming their coalitions, they start forming their teams and so, i think, ellison -- it was a big get to get buckley on board. stuart: wait a minute, mercedes. the race for the dnc chair is now down to two leading candidates. keith ellison right there on the screen and mr. pérez, former labor secretary. they are both on the left. the center is not represented. >> well, no. i think ellison more so in the case that you have senator elizabeth warren and you have senator best as well as chuck schumer supporting ellison which clearly i don't see where he has that connection with the working

class specially the white working class which was the coalition that they lost, it was that constituency that they lost during last election cycle. buckley going in the direction of ellison as well as some of the key labor endorsements going towards ellison, it puts ellison in a strong position to win this weekend. stuart: you republicans must be pleased about that? however,ou're not eased about the republican party. i have three items for you, john mccain, criticizing president trump, talking about this is how dictatorship begins and lindsey graham throwing a lot of cold water on paul ryan's tax cut bill saying, you ain't gotten votes in the senate, that's a problem and rabid paul says that john mccain is not in charge. that, mercedes, is a split and a half, isn't it? >> i think there are so much

emotion surrounding the republican party and i'm hoping that president donald trump will invite lindsey graham over, mccain, paul over to the white house, had these discussions. this is a type of -- you want to be able -- it's a big family. you have to be able to have open discussions together and try to solve the problems. i think it becomes very problematic when you have john mccain going out at an international conference and speaking so negatively about donald trump. stuart: donald trump insulted him during the campaign. >> i don't know. i think for mccain is -- he has negative feelings for donald trump. it could be personal. i also believe that for john mccain to go out into the international community and speak so negatively and bring up

word dictatorship, my father came from a communist country, cuba. now, you're talk if he's going to sensor the press or witch hunt, then let's talk about that, dictatorship because he's being critical of the press, i think he has gone too far. stuart: i want to ask you this, were you as surprised and pleased when you saw melania trump recite the lord's prayer before thepeech of her husband in florida? >> you know, i think this is 's about freedom of speech and it is about the opportunity for someone who is in a position of power and in her case being the first lady to be able to recite the lord's prayer, that's something that we don't get to hear anymore. so it becomes -- so for me it was refreshing. i think we need to have more of,

you know, one nation under god, i think it's exactly what our pounding -- founding fathers wanted in our nation. i was please today hear that. stuart: i loved it. >> i did too. stuart: mercedes schlapp. >> thank you. stuart: parts of northern california. look at the weather map, tells the story. there's a new storm that's arrived and bring up to maybe 5-inches of rain in the area. the forecast is looking for heavy flooding. we have it all in president's day, politics, money and even the weather, we will be back ♪

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who are they? well, this isn't my determination. wall street journal was talking about this, that's payless by the way. they are talking about closing a thousand stores. 19 different retailers. take a look at some of the people, the stores that are considered to be the walking dead. nine west, j crew, true religion, where are we going to get ripped up jeans now? poor credit or very high credit risk. you know, stuart, it's not just nonbricks and mortar stuff, the online stuff, people these days seem to want experiences, we want to have a great dinner, we want to go on a great vacation, we want to see the cubs play, we don't want stuff and so claire's for example, bond debt and have a big payment, interest payment coming up in march. people think they are one of the

next that will be filing chapter 13. stuart: wow, that's fascinating, jeff flock. that's one of the stories of our time. the rise of amazon online selling and the death of main street. what a story. jeff flock, good stuff. thanks for being us. we will see you soon. you got it. yeah, we are working, our competitors are not. we will have more live stuff after this.

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stuart: president's day. we are working. our competitors are not. i'll tell you something, ash and i and elizabeth when she's here love to do this we enjoy having a front row seat watching history unfold. >> the last two years have been remarkable. every day brings something new. here we are, front row. stuart: it's a privilege. >> yes. stuart: we invented this live action news, live action presidency kind of show because

the news, breaks, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 in the morning tell the audience what is going on. it is a privilege to sit here and discuss america as history is being made. we love it. let's turn it over to neil cavuto who has been dragged into work today. neil: yes, indeed we love it. we do love it. you know, stuart? stuart: yes, sir? neil: something weird is going on. this market hasn't budged. stuart: [laughter]. shall i tell you all about it, neil? leave it to tomorrow. neil: thanks, buddy. if it is news to you, it is news to us. welcome everybody, i'm neil cavuto, fox on top a day off for the markets. not for fox business. we have your financials. a lot of americans feeling financial mojo, holidays notwithstanding here. a lot has to do with growing optimism, whatever comes out of the trump white house will be