stay in place. my prediction is it's an entitlement bubble. the republicans can't even reform expanded medicaid. we are in store for a debt crisis in this country. maria: not good. thanks for being with us. have a great weekend, everybody. i'll see you on wall street week and sunday morning futures. "varney & company" begins now. stuart: all right, here we go. is this administration falling apart? is the republican party capable of doing anything? and will the market finally react to the chaos in our government? good friday morning, everyone. first, the news. total fail on obamacare reform. the republican party could not muster even 50 yes votes, and in a move that drew gasps, senator john mccain voted no. obamacare lives on. and there is another ugly fight among top-level white house staffers. newly-hired communications director anthony scaramucci levels an obscenity-laced rant against chief of staff, reince priebus.

and jubilant democrats celebrate their win, senators warren and schumer do a gleeful selfie. that's the political state of play. not good for the gop or the trump presidency. another news development. the economy is expanding very nicely. between april and june, we expanded at an annual rate of 2.6%, way better than the 1.3% gain in the first three months of the year. the obvious questions, how to react to the political mess, the economy's improving performance and perhaps most importantly, amazon's profit decline. stay right there, please. all will be revealed. "varney & company"'s about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: all right. friday morning, in 29 minutes we open this market, and i'm going to start with the news on the economy again. gdp growth, 3.6% -- 2.6 percent

annualized in the second parter of this year. -- quarter of this year. what kind of growth rate would we get if the republicans got out of their own way? >> 4%. it is encouraging that we're growing a little bit better than europe or crab grass right now, you've got to get those corporate tax cuts going to get that two trillion parked overseas, a lot of it back home. capital investment is -- stuart: nice gain though, 2.6%, compared to the first quarter. >> sort of last year's second quarter. little perspective. stuart: let's look at amazon. it is going to open sharply lower. its profits dropped 37%. -- 77%. amazon, i think, has reverted to its old style, pouring money back into its growing business. it's spending on new distribution centers, new employees, new content for its prime viewers. that cuts profit. david steinberg is with us. all right, david, right from the

get go, would you buy amazon on this dip? >> well, you know, i think you nailed it when you were talking to maria before. this is an amazing company with a ceo who has a great grasp and control of his organization who's willing to invest as he sees fit to to grow the business in the long term. and to your exact point, shareholders have rewarded him for that. now i don't know be today we're -- if today we're going to see a dip reverse. i think you're going to see the company take a bit of a hit today. they really did come in well below what people thought. but you have a business that grew 25% -- stuart: okay. all right, david. i'm interrupting you. i want to cut right to it. the market pricing amazon at this moment at just over $1,000 a share. would you buy it at just over $1,000 a share today? >> i would, yeah. stuart: you would? okay. that's what i want to know, because our viewers want to know this. is this the day to buy back in?

because it's an extraordinary opportunity. now, let me expand this. we're going to see the big five technology stocks, i think almost all of them will be down at the opening bell today. is there any other tech stocks that you would buy this morning on this dip? >> well, i love facebook and apple. i own both. i think that anytime they dip, it's a good opportunity to jump in. i've said that i think amazon will be the first trillion dollar company, you know, for a few hours yesterday jeff bezos was the wealthiest guy in the world. who thought that would happen ten years ago, right? i mean, it's -- you've got some amazing technology. obviously, they talk about the run on tech stocks, but at the end of the day they're really not overpriced if you look at multiple versus growth rate. you know, if you look at amazon in particular, you have you have aws which i think is the most exciting business they have grew over $4 billion for the quarter

with a 22% operating margin. you just -- that business alone -- stuart: right. >> -- is worth a fortune. stuart: david, you answered the question which i think most of our viewers will be asking, buy the dip, yes or no, and your answer was, yes, buy the dip. thanks for being with us and straightforward. we like that, david. thanks very much, indeed, sir. good stuff. now this, anthony koop lashing out at reince priebus, chief of staff. it was in an interview in the new yorker. here's quote: they'll all be fired by me. i fired one guy the other day. i have three to four people aisle fire tomorrow. reince priebus, if you want to leak something, he'll be fired very shortly. and now this. a white house official tells fox news the situation in the white house is not good. here is that quote. this is getting out of hand. i'm honestly getting concerned for my safety in the office tomorrow. this type of behavior is unbelievable.

working in the white house in something like that, it is a disgrace. joining us now, fox news contributor byron york. byron, the white house is in total disarray, seems to me. is the president to blame? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, the president is usually always to blame for anything that happens in the white house. that's any president, any white house. and i think what has happened here is a lot of republicans have become deeply embarrassed by what's going in the white house -- going on in the white house. look, we've had a lot of palace intrigue in previous white houses, we've had people who were at each other's throats, but you've never had such a crude, public statement of it as you've had with anthony scaramucci. on the other hand, if you look at it from the president's perspective, this is his new white house communications director pledging total loyalty and to purge the white house of the president's enemies. so i'm not sure anything's going to actually change real soon. stuart: well, is it going to bleed over into the tax cut debate?

because that's about to happen, and it looks to me like many senate republicans are at war with the trump white house. >> yeah. stuart: what chance do we have of a tax cut in that environment? >> not really good, actually. i mean, this is an incredibly complex topic. if you lock at the statement that the -- look at the statement that the big six released about tax reform yesterday, other than the statement they made on the border adjustmenting tax is not going to happen, there were no details in it, there was nothing to suggest that they're really together on anything. and, look, this is something that republicans could not agree among themselves before donald trump showed up. this is not entirely a trump thing. but having a white house that just appears to be shooting itself in both feet and the head -- stuart: you know -- >> -- is not going to help. >> i get the impression that some republicans in the senate truly detest donald trump. am i right? >> oh, yeah. look, there are a number of senators who strongly support the president's agenda, and then

there are others who basically have been waiting for him to fail. and they didn't do anything to help him. on the other hand -- and now here we are, six months into the president's term in office, and we've had this failure with obamacare. and when anybody talks about tax reform in august, you just kind of have to laugh at that because that's just not going to happen. stuart: i think you wrapped it up very nicely there, byron. we appreciate you be -- you being with us on a dismal friday morning. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: individual stocks, first of all, look at starbucks, ouch to. reporting strong sales in america, but it's going to close all of those -- [inaudible] stores by the spring of next year, down 7% on starbucks. how about mattel? reporting lower profits on weak sales of barbie dolls and fisher price toys. it's going to take a 5% hit this morning. mattel down to 20. president trump is heading

to new york today, laying out a plan to fight the violent street gang ms-13. that gang accused of 17 brutal murders on long island, some victims hacked to death with machete9ties. that's a story we're following. venezuela, key vote this weekend. the socialists could seize absolute power. more violence expected. the u.s. pulling diplomats out of that country. politics, new study from the tax policy foundation. if your family makes $150-$300,000 a year, that organization says you could be paying more in tax under the president's tax reform plan. congressman kevin brady, top guy on the tax-writing committee, he's up on this program many our next hour. and another varney stole the show on "fox & friends" this morning. my daughter, angela, interning on "fox & friends" for the summer. she got a chance to give the weather report this morning. i am a very proud father. watch this. >> i want to introduce you to a

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stuart: intel reports strong profits from its data center group. i think that's the cloud business. the stock is marginally higher, 20-odd cents, that's it. video game maker electronic arguments reporting weak sales. the worst thing it did was to look to the rest of the year and say it looks dismal or not so good. down over 3%. venezuela, the state department orders relatives of american diplomats out of the country and, e. mac, i think we've got a new death toll. >> 111 now dead, 1900 injured. the majority young men shot by gunfire, killed by gunfire. and this comes as news breaks venezuela has banned protests through next tuesday, threatening people who protest or even public meetings 5-10 years in jail.

still a massive protest planned for today in caracas. stuart: okay x. this weekend it comes to a crunch, i believe. >> that's correct. full control by maduro, that's what the vote is about. stuart: this weekend. okay. now this, president trump is heading to long island, new york, today. he's going to talk about the fight against ms-13, the violent gang. joining us now is congressman lee zeldin, republican from new york. congressman, i'm going to chalk this issue up as a win for president trump. one of few, but a win nonetheless. and i believe that two of the victims of this gang are in your district, correct, sir? >> well, no doubt, the president was -- has been all over this issue going back to the campaign. this is leadership. it's, on his part, the white house, department of homeland security, doj, they've been all over it. and i'm reading about one indictment after another. ms-13 is all over long island, tearing apart families, it's tearing apart communities, and president trump -- even though

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will vote to cut individual tax rates and cut corporate tax rates? >> as close as i possibly can to be guaranteeing anything about any topic, i would say absolutely. i mean, i'm speaking to colleagues, and the house is ready to reduce corporate income tax rates, to reduce, to make it easier for individuals to be able to file their taxes on a postcard, to reduce the number of brackets, to move up to immediate expensing and depreciation. the house is there. i would be shocked if we didn't pass that. stuart: okay. now, i understand that the house is about to go on a five-week recess. is that correct? >> well, we do start a recess. however, you know, right now as i'm here with you there's a conference going on two floors underneath me which is a planning conference to talk about various issues that we're working through. and i know as of the last update there was discussions of being here to vote on different pieces of legislation. but i will tell you that, you

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stuart: this is the premarket stock price of the travel web site expedia. they made $57 million profit last quarter, a little bit better than expected, but no influence on the stock. it's up just 25 cents at $154. chevron made money, $1.5 billion last quarter, and chevron is virtually unchanged. headlines, here we go. first off, amazon holding a

competition in japan. 16 teams competing to build a robot that can complete the final stage of shipping an order. picking up differently-shaped objects, stuffing them into boxes for shipping. currently, that job is held and only be done by humans. how about this? british treasure hunters say they found nazi gold from world war ii about 100 miles off the coast of iceland. it's in a sunken german cargo ship. the gold could be worth upwards of $130 million. the salvage company that found the wreck still needs permission from iceland to recover the gold. next, new survey out. j.d. power says player-led national anthem protests hurt nfl ratings last season. 26% of people say they watched fewer games because of players like colin kaepernick taking the knee during the anthem. not popular. outgoing ge chief jeff immelt on the short list as the

next uber chief. update, just last night meg whitman -- another name being floated for the top job -- said not interested. all right. now, look, we've got, what, four minutes to go before that market opens. we'll be down ever so slightly. here's what the market has to consider; a stronger expansion for the economy in the second quarter, but a whopping, great big decline for amazon. will we see a bounceback? stay tuned, you'll find out here.

♪ ♪ stuart: one minute to go before we open trading this friday morning. may i remind you that last night amazon, king of the technology companies -- that's what many people think -- reported a huge drop in profits, and the stock promptly headed south. look at it now with, what, a few seconds to go before we open trading. we're down $33. that's the premarket, implied open for amazon, all the way down to $1,012. is here's a question which will be answered today, is this the time the buy on the dip? and what influence amazon's profit report have over the rest of the market? there are other factors to weigh here as well. about an hour ago, we received news from the economy. between april and june of this

year the economy expanded very nicely, 2.6% annualized growth. not bad at all. but then again, we've got the taillight fail of obamacare -- total fail of obamacare in the senate last night, voted down, and we've got chaos in the white house. that's the backdrop. it is 9:30. we are off and running and we are down. not much, but we're down. down 24, down 20. plenty of green on the left-hand side of your page right there. and now we're up. [laughter] i don't know what the market is paying more attention to, amazon, chaos in the white house, the death of obamacare repeal or amazon. which is it? i guess they're all many play. let's have a look at amazon. as we said, it reported a 77% profit decline. that's the first few moments of trading, and it's down $35 at $1,008, down 37 at $1,008ing as we speak. now, look at the big technology companies. they're all down.

not as much as amazon, but they're down. facebook, microsoft, amazon, apple -- alphabet, apple. another huge loser, this is a surprise to me, starbucks. it's closing all of its tee very that locations. is that what's taking it down 7%? there's more to it than that, surely. let's sort it out. liz macdonald is here and so is scott shellady and jeff seeger. jeff, this is going straight to you. is this the day when we buy on the dip? what say you, jeff? >> no, well, first of all, i love amazon. i've loved amazon for a while, but i've been -- and i don't own any shares, but i've been consistently telling people it is not the time to buy amazon. first of all, what amazon made perfectly clear was that in order for them to grow, they have to continue to spend on things like fulfillment centers which are these massive structures, content. they're spending billions and billions of dollars to grow, and as long as they're doing that,

you're going to see revenue numbers that are good, but you're going to see some of these earnings numbers that disappoint. stuart: all right. lizzie, get in. >> they forecast a potential quarterly loss coming up. so you maybe buy then. the first time in two years, you're right, 38 billion in sales, 37 billion in charges. they are plowing back into the bids. but without that cloud, this would be about $290 million in the red without the cloud business. stuart: ouch. okay, now we're down 40, almost 41. scott shellady. now, you're a trading kind of guy. that's what you do. >> yeah. stuart: you're in, you're out, that's what you do. >> absolutely. stuart: would you be in real fast to amazon at $1,005? >> no, i'm looking for -- i think we can't have everything go up forever. i'm not saying we've got doom and gloom coming around the corner, but the market would be healthier with some sort of pullback. that's what i'm waiting for. it's hard to call a pullback in the amazon stock price because, stuart, coming on to the show this morning i looked, and it looked to me we were going to

open up where we were two weeks ago? [laughter] is that that a massive pullback? let's have a little bit of common sense here, that's all. stuart: okay. give me common sense on the rest of the big five technology stocks. they're all dipping a little this morning. you buy any of them on this small dip? >> i think technology is absolutely the place to be, and i would slowly be feathering money in, because that's the type -- part of the economy that's going to expand. and they're going to be a large part of where we go in the future. so i love technology, i love what it can do, but i would slowly feather things in here. i wouldn't be betting all of grandma's wealth on one shot. stuart: next question, why is today's numbers on the economy -- we're growing at an annual rate of 2.6%, very solid, indeed -- why is it that we've gotten rell tvly good news on the economy, but the market is still heading south? >> i don't really think 2.6 is great news. we haven't hit the 3% number in a very long time.

the reason why is that we have a lot of rhetoric about tax cuts. i think tax cuts are imperative in order to get gdp numbers to improve. stuart: okay. >> so until we see that, we're still in the worst recovery in history, and we need a catalyst beyond talk. stuart: so we've got to have tax cuts -- >> we have to. stuart: no way around it -- >> yep. >> and we can't accept gdp under 3 3r. that would be a valve city. that would be accepting slow growth to z the norm, and i don't think that's necessary. what's mess is for us to get congress to get off their butts and get something done so we can get gdp better. stuart: i've got to tell you half of all the s&p 500 companies that have reported earnings so far, 73% of them, seven out of ten, have produced better profits than wall street was expecting. 72% have topped revenue estimates, if you want to put it like that. so the profit picture, scott, looks pretty good.

is that balancing out the negatives from washington, d.c.? >> yeah, i don't think washington's -- i mean, washington is an irritant. i don't know if it's a negative. it's just an irritant. i think that going forward with a 3% growth rate, i agree with jeff, we're going to need to see some tax cut, but let's not stop at 3%, folks. that's still low. i've been doing this a long time, i'm expecting 4%, 4.5%, really get this economy going. right now washington is an irritant. it could be some wind in our sails when they get themselves sorted out. earnings are a pat of the reason -- part of the reason, but there's so much money out there. look at some of these companies that are floating bonds and they can borrow a lot of money for as long as they would like. there's such liquidity out there, that's the real big reason why i think stocks are where they're at -- >> yeah, and i think scott and jeff are right, but here's the thing, we are at record highs with record lows in volatility.

it's pretty complacent and, you know, calm sailing out there. the last time we saw a rocky market was brexit or the threat of four interest rate hikes from the fed. so it's nice and calm right now. >> also you pull those five stocks occupant of the indexes, the big five out, and you have good returns but not great returns. what i'm seeing is a very come complacent market where people are plowing into the same stocks. those stocks continue to move up on momentum. and scott said, it was perfect, there's so much liquidity chasing few stocks, it's a very dangerous place for investors. stuart: and look at, the cross-currents arrive at this level for the dow industrials. after six minutes' worth of business, the dow is down 10, that's it. down 9, down 10. but look at the level, 21,787. that's no selloff right there. >> yeah. stuart: no selloff. maybe in amazon but not across the board. couple of more individual stocks. first off, energy. exxon doing worse than expected.

the stock is down 1.8%. it's down. chevron reporting higher profits, that is up 1.5%. mixed picture from energy companies. mattel dropping sales on the iconic barbie and fisher price brands, it's down theory, what, 8.5% down. the video game maker, electronic arts, doing worse than expected, it's down 1%, 1.39. expedia, the travel web site making money, more than it did last year, that's up $2 at 157. how about american airlines? very solid profits there but it's down 1.4%. hard to get a handle on this, isn't it? [laughter] expectations here and there. starbucks is going to close all of its t.varna stores. is that a good move? look at it, down 7%. is starbucks down because they're closing -- >> well, first of all, i know you're a tea drinker, so my condolences -- stuart: sort of.

[laughter] >> and liz too. one thing i will say is starbucks has proven yet again they're unable to view some of these trends that most of these store -- first of all, tea is not exciting as coffee. most tea drinkers are relatively plain people -- [laughter] they're creating all these -- >> you say that of stuart and i? stuart: i'm an american, come on. they're creating all these new drinks like that unicorn drink at starbucks, what could you innovate in tea? >> it's weak u.s. demand. stuart: that's the question, that's very good. >> i mean, that's it. it's over. [laughter] stuart: i do want -- >> 600 million. stuart: scott shellady, new resident of britain, i don't think he's a tea drinker. come on, park judgment on teavarna. >> it never really sold itself to me in the first place. i think the foot traffic in malls is going to be down until

they start to turn them into condominium complexes. it just didn't all fit together for me. i'm the guy who couldn't understand, i don't smoke, but when you couldn't smoke in a starbucks near europe, i thought the stock would take a hit, but, no, it's gone straight up. it was never a real good sell to me, and i think it's good they get rid of it and, ultimately, they'll be healthy without it. stuart: well, it's gone. it's the end of an era for apple. it's going to stop selling ipods, that's the portable music player. the ipod put apple back on the map, didn't it? >> yeah, it did. it was before the iphone. stuart: i don't think that's a big deal. >> they had the touch instead. stuart: it's just getting rid of a project that's lasted a long time. no big deal. but apple's at 149, and that's not great. we're ten minutes into the trading session, it's time to say good-bye to jeff in new york and scott in london. bet back to your -- get back to your tea and your warm beer. [laughter]

now, we're down 17 points on the dow industrials. that means it's a standoff between the relatively decent news on the economy, the chaos on the senate floor and amazon testing the $1,000 per-share level. we're down 17 on the dow. the senate, total fail on health reform. the republicans couldn't get 50 yes votes. as of now, obamacare lives on. we'll cover it for you. in our next hour, a congressman who's in charge of writing the tax code, kevin brady. question for him, why should we have any confidence in congress to deliver tax cuts by the end of the year when they can't do anything on obamacare? we'll be back. ♪ ♪

stuart: twelve minutes into the

session we are down 19 points, 21,777. how about this? more people are drinking sam adams beer, and the stock is way up. nicole, explain please. >> check it out, right? it's up 17%. sam adams is under the umbrella of boston beer company, and they came out with their quarterly report that really wowed wall street on the top and bottom line. in fact, we talk about sam add ams sales, and in the latest quarter, 372,000 more barrels of product sold from the prior quarter. so everybody's loving the beer and the summer ale. back to you. stuart: that's a very nice jump for the stock price as well. all right, nicole, thank you very much, indeed. a new day, a new airline controversy. group of american airlines flight attendants gearing up for lawsuit all over their, what, uniforms, liz? >> yeah. 3,000 complaints filing in. 70,000 american airline workers got these new uniform, and they immediately, they said, began to pall ill.

respiratory diseases, nausea, headaches. one person said heavy metal poisoning. the yet to be filed lawsuit is expected to name the uniform supplier, twin hill. so we'll be watching this story for you, flight attendants getting sick and ground staff due to their uniforms. stuart: okay. that's a new one, isn't it? >> yeah. stuart: back to politics, please. last night the senate failed totally to pass a skinny version of the obamacare repeal bill. joining us now, the heritage foundation's president edward feulner. i am calling in the gross failure of the republican party. would you disagree with me sharply? >> no, not at all, stuart. in fact, it's on the job training, i'm afraid, for the last six months, and you we're going to be stuck with zombiecare as we call it for the next couple of years until we can actually get to repeal. but the encouraging thing, stuart, and coming up with kevin brady is it looks like they're learning some lessons to

coordinate the administration with the house and the senate on real tax reto form. that's very exciting to me. stuart: but tell me about that, because when obamacare failed totally last night, a lot of us under the r turned around and said, well, there go tax cuts because if they can't do anything on obamacare, what can they possibly do on tax cuts? you're telling me they may learn from this lesson? >> i think they really have. yesterday you had mnuchin, gary cohn in the house, the house -- in the white house, the house and the senate and house ways and means committee all coming together and saying these are the basic principles we want. kevin brady's gotten off this border adjustment tax, and everybody is now going out and saying we're going to reduce corporate rates, we're going to reduce individual rates, we're going to go for repatriation, and we're going to really grow the economy above where it is right now. stuart: if they don't, you say hello to the democrats running the house next year, say hell throe the democrats -- hello to the democrats in the white house

this 2020 and possibly the impeachment of president trump. i mean, that's kind of a dire response, isn't it? >> well, that would be, stuart. but i'm one of washington's congenital optimists. [laughter] i've been here for 50 years, i've seen the ups and the downs, and there are no permanent defeats in washington. yeah, we had a setback last night on health care, very disappointed particularly with senator mccain. boy, he was a surprise and a disappointment. if he had witch switched his vote, it would have gone the other way, that was that close. stuart: here's something else which i think is positive, and that's the gdp number, annualized growth rate of 2.6 president. i see that as pretty good, don't you? >> that's pretty good, stuart. i'm a 3%-er, minimum. i'd really love to see a 3% plus because that's where it should be, that's where historically it has been except for the last decade when we've had too darn much regulation and too high

taxes, and let's get rid of that. to his very great credit, i think the president has done a lot in terms of executive orders. the house has passed the choice act which'll get rid of the worst parts of dodd-frank, so there are some positive things happening right now down here in washington, stuart. stuart: has president trump got anything to do with the gross republican failure in the senate last night and a difficult relationship with -- you're shaking your head. duds any blame rest upon -- does any blame rest upon president trump's shoulders? >> i don't think so really. this was -- he had every reason to anticipate since the house and senate both voted for full repeal in the past when it really didn't matter because they knew it was going to be vetoed by obama, he assumed they would do it. and he has made it very clear publicly and privately he will call anybody, he will twist any arms or invite anybody over and buy hem a sandwich or a sam adams or whatever they're serve

anything the white house and try and get them on board x. he's been a team player and a real leader on this, so i don't put the blame there at all. i put it on the fact the republicans have got to learn that this is -- that they're in a team. this is not a round of golf for the u.s. open. ing they've got to may together. stuart: do you think we're going to the get used to this president, his tone, his conduct, the way he runs the office? i know you're laughing, but there's a lot of people out here shaking their heads. we're going to have three and a half more years of this? >> yeah. a lot of us do shake our heads. i'm a midwestern guy from out in illinois, but all my friends from new york say, hey, get used to it. that's what we're like in new york. and this business now with scaramucci and the others going back and forth, i don't understand it. but let's, let's stay focused on the big picture, and let's get some tax reform done. stuart: oh, yes, please. by way, don't go back to illinois. [laughter] they'll take you for an arm and a leg. >> not right now, no thanks.

stuart: thanks for joining us, sir, we appreciate it. >> thank, stuart. stuart: we're down but i see a little bit of green there, about two-thirds down, one-third up for the dow 30. and amazon, pretty close to $1,000 a share. treasury secretary steve mnuchin on capitol hill repeatedly cut i off by california democrat maxine waters. she just kept on interrupting, wouldn't let the secretary answer questions. we will play you the sound bite shortly. and coming up top of the hour, president trump's top budget guy, mick mulvaney. he's live from the white house, 10:00 eastern. and tonight on wall street week more from maria bartiromo's interview with house speaker paul ryan. one topic of discussion, can republicans pass tax cuts by the end of the year. here's a clip. >> what we're trying to communicate is that we think most of all that is important that we come to common ground on how to do tax reform so that we can get it done in 2017. nah. not gonna happen.

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give the secretary an opportunity to apologize to mr. ellison for -- >> not a -- that is not a proper parliamentary inquire. stuart: democrat congresswoman maxine waters interrupting, repeatedly, treasury secretary mnuchin at a hearing yesterday. liz, i just think that was rudeness. >> it was. it was rude. it was notably nasty, and it basically jeb hensarling had to break it up. he's run ugh the house financial -- running the house financial services. maxine waters upset that mnuchin didn't respond to her letter about president trump's financial sewer actions with russia -- interactions with russia. it was a nasty hearing and exceptionally rude, you're right. stuart: sign of the times, is it not? >> yes. stuart: our politics is nasty. that's the way it is. look at this, new study finds conservative students increasingly afraid to voice their beliefs in class.

>> wake up, campuses across the country. if you're training your professors and student squads about microaggressions and you have bias teams, look what you're doing to your students in your own classroom. to have them self-censoring and silencing debate a makes for a less interesting discussion, less informed students and, basically, adds a false consensus about reality going on. it's not reality. stuart: it's not a university. >> right. stuart it's not a college education. i spent my time at college arguing furiously about politics, philosophy, culture, you name it, and i was out there arguing about it. >> yeah. stuart: and some people were offensive. okay, so what? that's free speech. >> it is. but, you know, i experienced it in the '80s at college. this is back to the '80s. so this has been decades in the making, and i think they need to stop, because we're not getting well-rounded students for the real world.

stuart: it's not an education. >> right. stuart: and i don't want to pay for a non-education, thank you very much, indeed, even though i've paid out a lot of money. [laughter] we're down 35 points, 21,761. hate to say it, but as we were just discussing, our politics has descend into what you might call chaos. white house staff in a very public fight, a failure, total failure to repeal even a small part of obamacare. it's descending into chaos, and i'll have my take, my editorial on that coming up, top of the hour.

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stuart: what a mess, republicans, the president of the democrats all have a piece of the blame. our politics have descended into embarrassing chaos. at the white house two top officials are involved in a very public fight. obscene language used by the president's spokesman was the

president himself has stirred the pot, angered senators with his tweets against his own attorney general and then he said alaska republican lisa murkowski really let our country down and he said that just as she was about to vote on the skinny bill. she of course voted no. the republican president is at war with his own party. the party is at war with itself. it couldn't even muster 50 votes to kill even a small part of obamacare. this is the failure of the gop, they promised a fix and they accomplished nothing but as for the democrats they are rejoicing. after the vote last night senator feinstein said tonight we celebrate. senator warren appeared in a gleeful selfy with senator schumer. democrats gave us obamacare and as it collapses they are happy. chaos within the white house, open warfare within the republican party, a gross fail

on an election promise and the growth agenda stalled. now what? democrats will be brought in to fix the obamacare mess they created which means more government care. america stays on the european road. republicans will go on to tax cuts. after the obamacare debacle why should we have any confidence that they will get it done? today the president goes to long island, new york, to check promise against the ms 13 game. where we left with? the vague hope that our politics have hit bottom, that republicans understand they can't go on like this, white house staffers understand you can't go on like this in the president understand if he doesn't stop his off-the-wall behavior his administration will be a complete failure. the second hour of "varney and company" is about to begin. ♪

stuart: is that an instrumentalist? >> madonna, celebrate. stuart: democrats celebrating after republicans failed to repeal obamacare yet again, senators schumer and warren marking the occasion with a selfy. the latest read on consumer sentiment. are we more optimistic or next? >> the last 393.4, still around 9-month lows, before donald trump was elected people still worried about their personal finances. stuart: what about the tax cut and obamacare. a modest loss. we may be way down for the stock price of amazon but the overall dow jones average is down 23

points and i keep saying this. look at that level, 21,773. individual stocks moving include starbucks, take a look at that, big tech, only one is going up. starbucks down 7%, biggest drop in five years. it lowered its forecast for the year. that always hurts stock. they are closing their teavana outlets across the country. exxon hitting below is level of the stock price since february 2016, down 2.7%. now to donald trump's growth agenda. joining us, mick mulvaney. welcome back to the program. why should i have any confidence that you can get us tax cuts when we couldn't get anything done on obamacare? >> a fair question but there is a fair answer. you saw the big 6, the house

republicans, senate republicans, the white house rollout yesterday or the day before yesterday a basic set of principles everybody agrees on. the ideas about growth are there. we are all on the same page so we are ahead of the curve on taxes compared to healthcare. i don't think republicans seem to agree on where healthcare repeal and replace ago but we agree on tax reform. stuart: is there basic agreement within the republican party in the senate and the house we can individual tax rates and corporate tax rates? >> it is more than fat. the basic idea that the system needs to be simpler, needs to be more progrowth and more pro-capital investment. these are big ideas and big places to have agreement. the details are not there but the answer is yes, we all agree it needs to be simpler, rates need to be lower, now the

discussions will be how much simpler and in what way and how low will the rates be but those are the details that can get done in washington. stuart: in the white house you are dealing with the anthony scaramucci issue, the use of obscene language going after rights priebus, clearly there is chaos in the white house. is that going to get in the way of your job and cutting taxes? i know you will shake your head but the rest of the country is looking at the saying what is going on here? >> i will push back on the chaos thing. we just revealed yesterday this idea of a unified position on basic principles on taxes. that is not chaotic. we rolled out of the office of management and budget over 860 regulatory actions we have delayed or stopped in the first 6 months of this administration.

that is not chaos was the media does pick up on that and that is fine, that is what they do for a living but we work here and we are making progress with you side in today's gdp numbers and the capital investment numbers and consumer sentiment at the top of the show. look at the business sentiment reflected in the capital investment numbers europe, 8%, this is tremendous sort of testament to what is actually going on with the nuts and bolts of running this country and getting the economy moving in every direction. the chaos will play on it, palace intrigue sells better than raw numbers for the raw numbers are looking better and better and that is because the ministration is doing its work. stuart: if you push back against the idea of chaos in the white house, what about this? some republicans in the senate especially who appear to detest donald trump. don't know if those feelings had anything to do with senator mccain's no vote last night but that was a surprise and there are republicans in the senate who really do not like this president. it is personal. that could get in the way of cutting taxes in the senate. no? >> it shouldn't. at the end of the day you hope

democrats, republicans, house members, senate members will allow policies to help guide their final decision. also allow the promises they made to their constituents decide those decisions. maybe you don't like the president but if you promise your people you would vote to repeal obama care you should have done it and need to do it and that is why the senate isn't finished with care. i don't think they can go home without passing something. personal feelings for the president notwithstanding, policy should drive their decisions and when it does we will the obamacare repealed and replaced. stuart: we have the obamacare taxes with us. they will probably stay for some time. that is a probability, doesn't that get in the way of cutting taxes elsewhere? >> i was disappointed when i saw that come out of the senate. here is how i look at it. if that is what it takes to get obamacare repealed and replaced, we will get a second bite on

that. we know what they do to gdp growth, the negative impact on the health of the american economy. we want to see them removed as part of the health care debate but we get a second chance to review the issue as part of tax reform. stuart: 2.6% annualized growth between april and june. several commentators on this program have said we love to get to 3% but you can't get to 3% unless you cut taxes. do you agree with that? >> a lot of things have to happen. we introduced the concept of a unifying theme of everything we do as we try to get to that sustained 3% economic growth, tax reform is part of that but don't discount the value of the regulatory effort in the office of management and budget as part of the white house ever to jumpstart the economy, we are seeing that in gdp growth, don't discount things we are doing on welfare reform, energy policy,

weaving together all those things as we get to 3% growth. you ask if we could get a 3% growth without tax reform probably not but other things moving at the same time, you are seeing that filter through the numbers. stuart: you have a very tough job and you are in a tough position but we thank you for appearing this morning. >> i love my job and being on the show. stuart: amazon is the individual company, the individual stock of the day down 3.5% at this moment, it reported last night its profits dropped 77%. they are returning to the old way of doing business, they take in a ton of money and fill it out to expand the entire company. that is what they are doing but stock is way down this morning. joining us for walmart usa chief bill simon. welcome to the program, good to see you. i know you are an opponent of amazon. you don't like them, you think

they are predatory prices and you don't like jeff bezos you think he is running the show and not doing the right thing so i take it you would not be buying amazon stock at $1010 this morning. >> absolutely not, that is crazy. there is only one direction for that stock to go and everybody knows that. i can't tell you when it will happen but it is inevitable. stuart: why? >> if you look at the details, the last release, you can see it. the retail business was up 17% which was robust. the growth they got from the rest of the company came from web services and other areas but if you take 17% growth and we've in whole foods, the acquisition they are hoping to make, that will lower their overall sales increase to 11% or 12% and they will still be losing money. they are running a massive enterprise, their growth rate will slow and they are losing money. at some point investors have to wake up to the fact that it is a

house of cards that only has one direction. stuart: on the other side of the fence you say growth has to slow. they look well-positioned to keep their dominance of the retail industry. half of all searches go to amazon first. >> 55%. stuart: you go to amazon first and you are discounting their cloud business which is very profitable and they are leaders of the field. >> not discounting at all. they made $900 on amazon web services and lost $300 million in retail so they are using web services to fund this aggressive approach to pricing and expansion and retail and the growth will have to slow by the law of large numbers and walmart is a great example at $500 billion, walmart in order to grow 10% would have to grow $50

billion in a year so their ability to keep putting up these massive numbers are going to run into difficulties the bigger they get. stuart: we have seen no bounce back, we have an open 40 odd minutes but amazon stock has stayed down $35, 3.5% and you are on board with that. we will get your views on amazon on another occasion. check this out, that is a rare shark, the mega mouth shark off the coast of indonesia. since being discovered in 1970s there have only been 60 sightings. they grow to about 17 feet long, are located mostly near japan and taiwan. that was spotted off indonesia.

don't call me that. donald trump heading to new york in the next hour, all about wiping out the violent street gang ms 13. congressman kevin brady writes the tax code. i will challenge him after the health reform debacle, why should we have any confidence they can get taxes cut? mister brady joins us and you are watching the second hour of "varney and company". ♪

stuart: steady as she goes, down 21 points on the dow industrials, well above the 1700. better take a look at snap. as of next monday early investors will be able to sell their shares.

if they did sell that stock would go down further. it has hit five record lows this week alone. check this out, goodyear, the tire guys, biggest drop in nearly a year, off 91/2%, they have weak sales in america, europe, africa and the middle east, that is pretty much around the world. republican congressman mo brooks says senator mitch mcconnell, majority leader, should step down. roll tape. >> at this point if i were mitch mcconnell i would resign and let somebody else provide the kind of leadership that is necessary to address healthcare now, tax reform next, infrastructure next and on down the list but we cannot continue to have the kind of failures we have had in the united states senate. stuart: congressman louis gohmert, republican texas, frequent guest on the show. this is a flat out war between two wings of the republican

party. until it is settled there will be nothing done in congress. with that is my opinion. what say you? >> i don't think it is a war between two factions of the republican party. it is a war between people who repeatedly made a promise that they would repeal obamacare and their own conscience them pushing them to keep their word and then something else to lie about it. stuart: it is a war. it is outrageous. i pray for senator mccain, for his health, his full recovery from the cancer but it doesn't give him the right to make people suffer more under the current aca. it is incredible. every one of those senators except susan collins said we

will repeal obamacare. for heavens sake, that bill, i have been here 12 years, seems like an eternity. i have never heard vv body contacting the other party in congress and saying you got to promise us because we can only pass this bill if you promise us you won't pass it. this never happened before that i have ever heard of. stuart: a clear-cut divide. intends division with the republican party. i put it to you again, until you bridge that gap, until you bridge it, bring peace to the republican party, you cannot get tax cuts done. >> it is a matter of people keeping there would, pushing people at war with some of is the want to keep our word pushing them to keep their word. if they keep their word. stuart: do you agree with me as things stand with the republican

party we are not going to get taxes cut? >> we had a very good conference this morning in the house. we have done some good things and i hope it is good news for the economy at we are giving up on the border adjustment tax. i was talking to people who don't see that is helping, it is going to hurt. great news they will abandon that. isaac we can get tax reform done now that that is out but i keep pushing the president, don't like ryan and mcconnell talk you up to 20%, 24%, stay at 15. we undercut china, we bring all these manufacturing jobs back, my friends art laugher said after they got that 30% tax cut, they had 12% growth after that. can you imagine getting back to

that. it would be awesome but we can do it now that we have the bat out of the way and go with a big tax cuts, that will be great news. >> emma kratz will demagogue you to death. it will be giveaways to the rich and republicans -- >> the cbo score will kill us because they will not add this new stream of tax money coming in but he is right, we just need to put a provision in the bill, cbo doesn't count on this, they can't find their rear end with both hands. we are moving forward because this will jumpstart the economy and it is not going to stop as long as these tax cuts are in place due to tax cuts, watch people make more money, it will be awesome but we can't let ourselves get bogged down and can't walk away from the repeal of obamacare. people are really hurting and we owe it to not to have lied about

repealing obamacare. god bless trump, trump is hanging in there. if we had a lesser president i would say we have no hope but trump is not going to give up and i'm grateful he is there. stuart: i got to go. >> i'm wound up because we are going to get this done. stuart: democrats celebrating on the republican fail on obamacare. chuck schumer and elizabeth warren taking a selfy to commemorate the occasion. we are all over that and more after this. copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way" with anoro. ♪go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators, that work together to significantly improve

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stuart: it was a total fail. the gop failed totally to pass the skinny vote on the obamacare repealing democrats are

celebrating lose tammy bruce is with us. all the celebrations going on, what do you make of this? >> they are salivating too really. they should not be selling at all. last time we had an obamacare victory for democrats was in 2010. in that midterm the democrats lost the troll of the house giving obama and the democrats the worst losses in 62 years. stuart: don't you think it could be the republicans who suffer huge losses in the next year? >> this is the difference. it is not about democrats versus republicans. the question american voters and trumpeters are asking is who is the problem? democrats have always been honest about being loses and not be in touch with the american people that the republicans have lied to people according to eric cantor to get elected. that is what the american voter has to address. stuart: kevin brady writes the tax code, he is next on this program after this. hello, this is adt,

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forecast, deutsche bank raised its forecast up a solid 9%. we expect more details of the gop tax reform plan today. we know the border adjustment tax is out. our next guest is one of the people who writes the tax code, he does write it loses name is kevin brady and he is chair of the tax-writing committee and the congressman joins us now. welcome back to the program. good to see you on a particularly important day. why should we have any confidence that you can get tax reform done or even a minor league tax cut done when you can't do anything about obamacare? >> last night's action was awfully disappointing. healthcare is still clashing around. i am always hopeful the senate can give us direction on what the next steps are but i can tell you this on tax reform,

this joint statement from donald trump's team, when we are unified now behind a bold tax reform plan, there is an urgency to get this done, and more excitement and optimism in pro-tax reform advocates that we can get this done. stuart: that is not the way it seems outside the beltway. there is great disappointment about last night. >> i agree with you on the healthcare aspect and the tax reform areas there is a different sense. stuart: is there real agreement on both sides of the republican parties that we need to cut, we will cut individual tax rates and corporate tax rates?

>> it is. >> i have to tell you we have heard these words before. we must cut taxes, we have heard this approach. i am starting to drone on like this but we have heard this before. >> it has been 31 years, we heard this for a long time but what is different now is we have a republican house, senate and white house willing to lead, we have key unified plans going forward, and no question about it, we have to work through these issues in the white house and senate and i'm encouraged by the seriousness of the purpose.

stuart: if there is no border tax, how to you pay for the tax cuts for individuals and business? how do you pay for it, >> the border adjustability is gone. i made the case, it needs to be set aside now so we can focus on a unified plan. we have more work to do as a result for the local business. >> it balances within the budget over its we 10 years, it continues to be our goal because businesses tell us, don't give us temporary. need to count on this for long-term investment decisions, that is where we are headed. stuart: if you are talking about paying for these cuts, we are

told donald trump is at least considering higher taxes on upper income people and had the suggestion from steve bannon that we could have a 40% tax rate on people making $5 million or more. and a pax decrease on others. >> of the trump tax team, we are going to low taxes for individuals and create tax relief for every income level in my view and that is the approach we continue to go down. >> the tax policy center listen to everything donald trump has said and all the statements

about taxes, they conclude of all those things were put into place, people making $300,000 a year would end up pay more in taxes. do you take issue with that? >> and and simplify the code so people can actually. >> thank you for appearing with us, you are busy but we appreciate you being here. next, white house advisor steve bannon has reset moment ago, reportedly pushing for 44% top tax rate on high income earners, $5 million or more and steve bannon is suggesting a 44% top tax rate on you. eric schonberg is a patriotic millionaire and private investor and has been on this program

before urging higher taxes on individuals. you must be a happy guy this morning. >> a lot of ideas come out of the white house and very few get any traction. i would love it if the white house proposed a higher rate on income is high income individuals. >> you were not expecting it, you were expecting a republican administration to float the idea, you thought this was something coming for the democrats. >> in 2000 and i observed opportunities for cooperation from the progressives left and the tea party right. there was a survey done, they had a favorable view of the tea party and 50% thought the taxes should be higher in people making more than $1 million a year so i am not shocked at that. what is shocking is despite running clearly on a platform, people who have been screwed are the middle class and the wealthy have been making out like

bandits, we see the policies they pursue like on health care which was fundamentally a major tax cut for the rich it never happened. stuart: are you a trump supported? >> i am not a trump supported. >> our unity party supported? >> i agree with the tea party and the sense the wealthy have manipulated the system in this country to their benefit for a long period of time, the problem i have with the tea party is i agree concentrations of governmental power are bad. what i disagree with them on is that the private sector doesn't have these concentrations of power as well. we need the government to balance the power of these large corporations. stuart: do you want to see higher taxes on high income earners? >> absolutely. we are running a massive fiscal deficit in this country. the notion that the most important thing is cutting taxes and reducing them on everybody,

and where is the money going to come from. >> on upper income people, you pretty much got 50%. >> i'm totally okay with this. currently, currently the federal government, if you look at the actual effect of tax rates on wealthy individuals. stuart: marginal rate, looking at the marginal rate is the important rate because that is what you consider when making a move up or working more overtime or whatever you are doing. are you retired? >> i do a variety of things which i do not have a full-time job. stuart: you don't have income. you don't have a high income. >> i have a high income but not from a full-time job. stuart: where is the income from? >> investments. stuart: you pay capital gains. income taxes. >> you are proposing higher taxes on people earning good

money but not higher taxes on people earning investments. and apparent contradiction. >> this is an element of an ongoing discussion, i making this point, you make a good income from doing this show. you pay a higher rate on the income you make doing this shows and i pay on the capital gains i received for sitting back and doing a and i am a strong advocate of equalizing. they talk about closing loopholes but they never talk about the biggest loophole the rich take advantage of which are lower rates on investment income and income you receive for actually working for a living. why should a plumber or a teacher be paid a higher tax rate than a private investor like myself? i don't it is right. stuart: if you raise the capital gains tax rate, you put it right up there, if you treat it as personal income, suppose you have a top rate of capital gains on 39.6% where it is now you will get far fewer capital gains. people will not take their

profits. stuart: i served in the reagan administration. people talk a lot. congressman talk a lot about looking to the tax reform 1986, what a great reform that is. that reform equalized rates between investment income and labor income. it was a very poor and element of that agreement. stuart: the clinton administration brought capital gains tax rate down. >> i agree it is one of the problems i had. stuart: you did that. >> again, this is where i do agree with the tea party. there is no -- this has been a joint endeavor between republicans and democrats benefiting the wealthy in this country. i will not disagree with one that. stuart: it is a pleasure to have you back with us. i don't blame you for having a big smile on your face when a republican administration talks about higher taxes on the wealthy i am shocked. thanks again. the growth agenda. can i say stalled in dc?

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>> make of all vain a, obamacare failed. >> why should i have any confidence you can get us tax cuts when we couldn't get anything done on obamacare. >> a fair question but there is a fair answer. you saw the big 6, house republicans, senate republicans, the white house, rollout yesterday or the day before yesterday, a basic set of principles everybody agrees on, the fat is gone. we are all on the same page. ♪

stuart: look at this, tobacco stocks way down, big drop, every single one of them. the fda announced a new regulatory plan. they want cigarette makers to lower nicotine to nonaddictive levels. they are also considering restrictions on menthol and other flavors in tobacco

products, all of them down. ultra is down 14%. the google of china, basically a search engine. 18 months high, rosy outlook, they expect revenue to rise 30% next quarter. how about amazon? we have it in the bottom corner of the screen. doesn't look like many people if any are buying on the dip, the dip is still in place, 1009 is the price of amazon stock right now. next guest, what he is calling is a smart border wall, congressman william heard once the wall to be high-tech including sensors, radar drones and a lot more. congressman heard joined us now, republican from texas. how are we going to build a wall, high-tech or otherwise if we can't get the republican party to agree on getting rid of obamacare? >> these are two very different

things. everybody recognizes the importance of border security. i think the american people have been frustrated because it is 2017 and our border should be secured. we should have a smart wall that utilizes all top technology in order to detect threats on the border. stuart: you make a good case. a substantial problem in the republican party, we don't need a wall want to pay for it. there is that feeling in the republican party. >> on a physical wall, i believe a fourth century solution to a 21st-century problem is ridiculous. $24.5 million a mile is what physical wall will cost. a smart wall, digital wall you can get for under $500,000 a

mile, $24 million difference. there is acceptance from republicans and democrats on the important of border security, now we talk about taxes. i spent 9 years as an undercover officer in the cia, shaking bad guys across the world and we need to increase intelligence on the criminal organizations south of the border. these are things we should be doing that makes this fight more efficient and cost-effective. stuart: very interesting. one more point. i look at economic numbers. i see texas's economy up nearly 4% in the first quarter but california is up just 0.1%. you can tell us it is about taxes, but what about energy? that is a strong point for texas

too. >> it absolutely is. when you look at the 4% growth, a lot of that was fueled by mining, especially a fan that is used in the energy industry being mind in southwest texas with new fines which everyone knows -- there is the delaware basin which is a gigantic reserve and something being focused on in far west texas. this is something fueling that and folks coming from california helping to fuel this as well. stuart: great interview and appreciate you being here. now this. we heard it all before. we must get health care. we should cut taxes. build that border wall. sounds like a broken record. my take on the words being used.

>> the president is somebody who can externally with the american people. he cut out the middleman through his social media platform and sometimes the middleman, the mainstream media doesn't like that. because of his social media platform which reaches 100 million americans he conveys a message at the same time to the

billionaire ceo in the ivory tower with 20 people working his social media platform, he communicates at the same time to the plumber on the job who is checking his phone between his work and stay-at-home mom. it is a powerful democratization of information. stuart: kellyanne conway defending donald trump's tweeting. many of you wrote in on that subject. this came in from kate. he needs to be sure the what he tweets is important and not just whining about the media or attacking his own people. i do not need to know the man's every possible grievance. sue says the tweets are the best thing since sliced bread but only the opposition doesn't think so. i sent trump to dc to drain the swamp. tweet on. we got to tone this done a bit. the presidential tweets are getting in the way of the legislative growth agenda and

that is not good. >> they are a distraction and the president of safetynet's public opinion. he has a base but it is peeling off. people are getting tired of the distractions. they want to focus on helping with their jobs and wallets and you don't go after members of congress right before crucial vote as he tweeted against lisa murkowski and has been going after. stuart: it is a self-inflicted wound. the president wants something done on obamacare and then tweets right before the vote last night to lisa murkowski he let the country down. she is a republican. needs support to get something done. when tweets get in the way and establish a feeling of chaos in the white house you have a problem. >> he has the agenda, he has it right, the economic growth platform. stick with that, he doesn't need to work out his political vendettas via tweets. the first viewer was right. stuart: it is not going to go away. we will be back.

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stuart: viewers of this program have seen it countless politicis interviewed on the president's growth program. they use the same words over and over; we must do health care reform, we should cut taxes, we ought to to wild build the wall. it's like a broken record. all that but we don't actually do it, do we? that's the reality that's staring us in the face this morning. total failure to do anything on obamacare. with democrats, oh, it is completely different. it took them a year to pass obamacare, and there was intense division. it cost them two elections, but they got it done. so now the republicans move on to tax cuts. bedrock republican policy. will we get anything? of course, we should. of course, we ought to. and, yes, we must. but after the obamacare debacle,

faith is dwindling. let's be direct. if the gop keeps going like this and the president can't stop with the self-inflicted wounds, then the democrats win the house, the president will face impeachment, and in 2020 the democrats will take the white house and complete what used to be the unthinkable reversal of political power. the third hour of "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: i know this. you all think that i don't know this. i do know it, it is the beastie boys, "get it together." i think that's a very appropriate lyric, right? [laughter] in particular. check that big board, we're down five points, that's it. we're narrowing the loss. still plenty the red, but -- plenty of red, 21,791. that's money, okay?

we live on politics here. the gop failed totally to deliver health reform. well, now they're working on tax cuts. here with us now, fox news contributor pete hegseth, foremost trump supporter. why should i have any faith in the republican party getting anything done on tax cuts when they failed so miserably on obamacare? >> you probably shouldn't. this is at the feet of senate republicans, this is at feet of mitch mcconnell, this is at the feet of john mccain, of people who yelled and screamed for years about a full repeal of obamacare, then when given a chance to vote on it, some reversed themselves, and they couldn't even pass a removal of the individual mandate. stuart: right. >> how can you be for forcing people to buy something? the fact that they can't even get a skinny repeal passed lays at their feet. if they lose majorities, it's their fault be, not the president's. stuart: you're a principal trump supporter. you don't lay any of the blame

on president trump. remember, his tweets have created chaos in the white house. >> tell me why a tweet should prevent a senator from voting the right way on something they've been standing up for forever. stuart: right before the vote last night, he tweeted about alaska senator lisa murkowski and said she was letting the country down, right before he needed her -- >> because they knew how she was going to vote. stuart: why did he have to tweet it out at that -- >> why not? clearly, their constituents aren't putting enough pressure on them, the rnc isn't -- lisa murkowski's been voting with democrats for a long time, her and susan collins. we know we need them in order to get to 50, and they voted once the right way, but otherwise where where have they been? what do you stand for? stuart: okay. we're clearly in agreement about the division within the republican party and the threat that it poses to the future. how about the white house? what do you make of

communications director anthony scaramucci? he went on a tirade against another white house staffer. it was obscene. you're in support of this administration. >> yeah. listen, salty language gets used, it's big boy -- stuart: this is the presidency of the united states of america. i'm a newly-minted american, do you think i came aboard for this? >> no one listens to every single private conversation you and i have, and i bet we use salty language as well -- [laughter] this is a guy trying to the take back the white house from people who are leaking to hurt president. he's a loyalist, he's bringing in lowallists, and they're -- loyalists, and they're closing rankings. he made a phone call to anthony scaramucci to a reporter saying who did you get that from? who's leaking to you all information? because the leaks have been very detrimental to this white house. the swamp is so swampy that there is virtue in the process of fighting it. i know people want to say just move on to your agenda, you

can't get your agenda done if your staff is undermining you, leaks are happening, the media is against you. he's got to fight an -- on all of these front, and republicans are not doing enough to advance a real agenda. stuart: do you think we'll ever get used to this president? >> no. stuart: his tone, his style, his demeanor, his betweens, his personal insults against people. will we get used to? let me back off a little -- >> no. stuart: i've lived in america for 40 years, i've never seen anything like this, never. >> fair enough, but we've never seen a moment like this in america either where america required and needed a fighter who was willing to say and do the things that no one's been willing to do. washington has worked a certain way for 40 years, and that's why we have $20 trillion in debt. this guy is a disruptive force. this guy says what he means and means what he says. and he's bringing in someone like anthony scaramucci who's going to swing just like he does

as to opposed to sean spicer or and reince priebus. they're nine people, but are they really -- they're fine people, but are they going to go to the mat for this president? he's fighting for this country. if that's what's at stake, then why are with we apologizing and glad-handing with democrats on the senate floor like john mccain? republicans and conservatives should be furious about that. we're not supporting our president -- stuart: just don't disrupt my tax cut, hegseth. [laughter] >> yes, i'm in for it. stuart: appreciate it. thank you very much, sir. all right, i want to move on to amazon, okay? the profit report last night showed a 77% drop in profits compared to last year. what the company is doing is pouring its money back into growing its business. here is burt flickinger, strategic resource group's managing director. obvious question -- you cover the retail industry from top to bottom and the online guys as well. >> yes. stuart: i see amazon at $1,013, down $32, i don't see people

buying this dip yet. would you? >> yes, stuart. stuart: you would? >> power to prosper. we recommended amazon at $500 a share, we're recommending it today, it's going up to $1,150. stuart: hold on, what price? >> $1,150 a share. stuart: so you would buy it right now, $1,013. >> they're accelerating the retail ice age. it's going to be amazon armageddon across the retail sector. amazon's going to win. it's going to create devastation economically. public sector, private sector and across retail bricks and mortar and shopping centers. regrettably, amazon shareholders win while america may lose. stuart: that's pretty strong stuff, flickinger. [laughter] we like people when say, yes, buy it now because it's going here. we like that. you are also saying that amazon should be reined in by the government because it's too powerful, and america's suffering.

how do we rein them in? >> stuart, i've worked with the federal trade commission for nearly two decades. every republican and democratic chairperson and the commissioners, there hasn't been an ftc antitrust examination in 20 years, anticompetitive practices, red story pricing. -- principled story pricing. walmart did it in the 20th century, amazon may be doing it now. it's time to investigate. level playing field for all retailers, all suppliers. consumers can win rather than, as you said, let amazon invest now, wipe out the big part of retail and raise prices later. stuart: if the administration announced a big investigation of amazon for predatory pricing, would you then sell the stock? >> no, i would not, because jeff bezos, amazon's brilliant founder and one of the great retail leaders, owns "the washington post" and has tremendous influence across washington and the swamp as you just referenced very well. stuart: that's pretty good. burt flickinger, thank you very

much, indeed. >> thank you. stuart: let's see you buy at $1,012. [laughter] thanks, burt. quick headline, again on amazon. they're holding a competition in japan. sixteen teams competing to build a robot that can complete the final stage of shipping an order; picking up differently-shaped objects and putting them in boxes ready for shipping. currently, that job can only be done by humans. wait until amazon gets a handle on that one. much more ahead in this hour. we'll be joined by national review's john fund. the he says if president trump wants to win on health care, he should end the congressional exemption. >> obamacare. i'm sure lots of people agree with that one. this is all happening as house republicans move on to tax reform, but after the health care debacle, why should we believe they can get anything done? stay right there, all will be revealed. ♪ ♪ potsch: you each drive a ford pickup, right?

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>> we're unified now behind a bold tax reform plan are. secondly, there is an urgency to get this done this year. and then finally, the president's fully committed, behind this approach. stuart: there's a great deal of disappointment about last night -- >> well, no, i -- look, i agree with you on the health care aspect of this. on the tax reform area though, there's a difference -- stuart: can i conclude that you're not going to pay for the tax cuts for individuals and business? >> no, you -- no, do not conclude that because, as you know, stuart, a priority is permanent. stuart: all right. that was congressman kevin brady last hour, the top guy on the tax-writing committee. he also made news when i asked him about steve bannon's reported proposal to raise the top tax rate to 44%. roll that tape. is it possible that we will have tax increases on some people as

a way of paying for tax decreases on others? >> no. to be as clear as i can be, no. stuart: here to react, herb london of the london center for policy research. that was a categorical no to raising taxes on top income earners. you must be very happy. >> well, i'm not very happy. in fact, i think that the bannon proposal, even though it's obviously not going anywhere, is pretty sensible. stuart: really? >> yeah, i do. 42%, maybe 43% for the top income earners. doesn't make that much difference to them and helps to offset the decreases for the middle class. stuart: i could go after you on this one -- >> of course you can. [laughter] stuart: since when have we got serious economic growth by taxing people, successful people more? >> no. you don't. i think it's largely symbolic. you've got to do -- the real tax burden in the united states is on the middle class. that's where the taxes have to be reduced. if you really want to see economic growth in the united states, that's where you do it.

it's not going to have that much of an effect on a tiny portion of the population are. 1% of the population to today pays about 45% of the taxes today . if they pay 46%, it's not going to make that much of a difference. it's the middle class that has to be addressed. stuart: for accept years, the republicans -- for seven years, the republicans have been saying we're going to repeal obama withcare. it was a total failure last night. why should i believe that they will actually cut anybody's taxes in the very near future? >> stuart, i've gone from believer to agnostic. i'm no longer confident that the republican party can do anything. look, i think if you can't even get a skinny repeal, then it seems to me that the republicans are in deep trouble. stuart: well, they're so divided. >> well, absolutely divided and shouldn't be divided. they need leadership from the white house, they need leadership in the senate. they're not getting it. stuart: are you disappointed with president trump and his -- >> i am disappointed. i'm disappointed by the white house, by the leadership that

exists in the house, and i'm disappointed with mcconnell in the senate. stuart: there you have it. there's more to come, hold on a second -- [laughter] gdp, the state of the economy, in the march -- sorry, the april-june quarter we were expanding as a pretty good rate, 2.6%. you happy with that? >> no. because i think we can go up to 3.5% if you got health care and tax reform. there's no doubt that the economy is prepared to engage in a tax -- a takeoff. this is a takeoff, all you need is this shot of adrenaline. if the congress would act appropriately, you're going to see dramatic changes that would occur in the american economy. unfortunately, we've got a congress that is engaged in stasis. stuart: so where to for the economy? if we're growing nicely in the second quarter but we don't get health care reform, we're not going to get it, and we don't get even minor league tax cuts, where to for the economy? we're not going to get 3%, are we? >> you're not going to get 3%. yellen is already making it clear that she's not going to increase the interest rates because she recognizes this problem.

this is a problem, and it is a problem when you have this stagnant economic growth that has occurred in the so-called recovery. and we are going through this similar kind of stagnation. but as i said, when you consider corporate profits, this country is prepared go through a growth phase. but the growth phase will only occur if the congress acts appropriately. stuart: you know, you've been on this program consistently for about six months, maybe even a year now. every time i've talked to you you've had a smile on your face, you've been upbeat, optimistic and enthusiastic but not today. >> it's true. stuart: last night got to you, didn't it? >> it did, indeed. and i'm very disappointed. i used the expression of going from believer, and i was here on your program saying we will get reform. now i'm agnostic. i've got to see evidence that the republicans can act in an appropriate matter. stuart: agnostic herb loan bonn, thanks for joining -- london, thanks for joining us. [laughter] you'll be back. >> thank you. stuart: all right. i'm going to check the price of

oil because this is a fresh two-month high. getting awfully close to $50 a barrel, $49.70, to be precise. overnight gas prices have started to go up -- >> a penny. stuart: yeah, but it's the trend -- >> oh, okay. stuart: $2.29, is the price. however, we're still at a 12-year low on gas prices for the overall month of july. now this, breaking news. reuters reporting north korea appear to have fired a missile. the missile may have landed in japan's exclusive economic zone. i'm sure that that's out to sea. we'll keep you posted on this as the story develops. no impact on the stock market from that development which is just coming into us now. individual stocks, and are they moving? yes, they are. starbucks lowered its forecast for the rest of the year. it was down 7%, now it's down 8.5%. by the way, it's also closing those teavana stores, tea shops

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opened the closed the doors, they blinked the lights, they played the radio. hackers got in by sending malware to the car's web browser. tesla says actively, it actively encouragings this kind of research to help improve the car. it's supposed to be a friendly hack. all right. we're going to update a story we brought you yesterday. that sketch of the new york city skyline by president trump up for auction, sold. it was auctioned off thursday. the price? $29,184. the bids started at $9,000. it drew a total of 11 bids, sold for $29,000. john fund says if president trump wants to the win on health care, he should end congressional exemption from obamacare. we also have a stock market bear, major bear actually. he says the gop trump tax plan will not go through as proposed. maybe he thinks that will precipitate the great stock market selloff.

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♪ stuart: yes, life is very short. stevie wonder, we can work it out. check that big board, pretty stable with the has of, what, 17 points, right around 21,780. mow this, retailers celebrating as republicans drop the border tax, but they've still got amazon to deal with. come on in, matt shea, national retail ped ration ceo. congratulations, matt, you did win over the border tax. let's get that out of the way. now you face amazon. are you retail guys, are you going to mount a challenge to amazon, try to rein it in? >> well, stuart, first, i think we should -- let's go back to the tax issue for a minute. we haven't won. we're certainly -- stuart: well, it's off the table. kevin brady told me this morning, literally an hour ago, the border tax is off the table. so come on, you won, let's move on. are you going to try, are you --

you're a powerful guy. are you going to try to reign in amazon? -- rein in amazon? >> we should all celebrate when we get tax reform. that's for the economy. the amazon question, this is for regulator ors to discuss and debate and for legislators to discuss -- stuart: oh, matt shea, matt shea, i know how powerful you are. i know you're a very powerful lobbyist. don't tell me, sir, that you have nothing to do with any move against amazon on predatory pricing. i am sure you're mounting a challenge, aren't you? >> we're not mounting a challenge, and we're going to let this play itself out. if the regulatory authorities want to pursue something, they should. but i think the point here is the economy is changing dramatically. it's a very disruptive environment for retailers and many businesses, and that's why you saw amazon trying to figure out how to go the last mile in produce, trying to buy whole foods. that's why you've seen walmart making big moves to acquire knowledge and technology in the internet space. and i think that's what you're

seeing happening across the entire industry. so before we jump to conclusions about what is and isn't appropriate in terms of business practices, we have to remember that what's driving all this is a desire to reach the consumers the way they want to be reached. and as long as things get better for consumers, it's going to be hard to prove anything's wrong because you're seeing wall a mart, walmart did this, and people accused walmart of things and other big box retailers over the years. and you know what? lots of people thrived in that environment, and there's a way for everybody to survive and be sustained. i think we've got to give this more time to play itself out. stuart: would you object or do you object to amazon's proposed purchase of whole foods? >> we haven't taken a position on that. i don't think it's our place to take a position on what a private company is doing with regard to ordering its business the way it thinks is most effective. so we wouldn't take a position on that any more than we took the position on walmart and jet.com or the moves that any number of other retailers have taken to make themselves more competitive in the marketplace. and ultimately, again, we should

think about what this is all about. we're trying to reach and serve consumers with the lowest possible prices, the best service, the best selection, the best quality of goods. that kind of progress is what america has always been about. so anything that gets in the way of that, i think, we ought to to all question why we're going to challenge something that's good for consumers. stuart: amazon is not a member of the national retail federation, is it? >> they are members. stuart: they are? >> whole foods and walmart and target and many, many, many others. we have thousands of members across the retail spectrum from mcdonald's to kroger to discount scores, department stores. so we reflect the retail industry. stuart: yeah, you do. >> broad, diverse and inclusive. stuart: i think you're about as divided an organization as the republican party in congress -- [laughter] but that's a nasty thing to say. i think you run a great organization, sir, i really do. and congratulations on winning on border tax. >> thanks. stuart: matt, we will see you again soon. >> thank, stuart. stuart: here now, major bear.

that gentleman on the right-hand side of your screen? this guy has for a long time a crash is coming on the stock market. or at least a very significant decline. his name is dan schafer, he's president and ceo of schafer asset management. now, i believe you're saying that the tax cuts will not go through. divided republican party, hopeless congress, not going to happen. do you think that is the news item that sets off a big stock market selloff? >> yes, i do. i believe that the stock market is at levels that are predicting that this tax program will go through and save money and people will be able to spend. i don't think it's going to happen. of just look what's happening with the obamacare and the divided, like you were just talking about what's going on in washington. i just don't think that this tax program is going to get through based on the senate and the house trying to get things done for trump. of they're just trying to just block him in everything he's trying to do. and, again, the stock market is

all the way up to such levels that are predicting that this is going to happen. so if it doesn't happen or it doesn't happen in the form that they're predicting, this is going to be a disaster. and remember, my 18-month target 18 months ago was a high in july for the equity markets, and bond yields should start to collapse down to 1.5% on the ten-year based on all this -- stuart: okay. >> -- problems going on in washington. stuart: well, look, you saw the news this morning for the second quarter of the year, april through june. an annualized growth rate of 2.6%. i mean, the economy really is picking up some steam. how does that fit into your calculations? because we got that growth rate without obamacare reform, without tax cuts. >> well, no. first of all, that number is going to probably be adjusted just like the previous quarter was adjusted down. a hot of that was based off of -- a lot of that was bassed after of consumer spending, furniture and other items. but consumer debt also went up

to high levels too, so it's not from wage growth, it's not from the economy growing, it's from people borrowing money to spend to buy goods. and also in that number is manufacturers cut back because the wholesalers are not holding as much inventory. stuart: okay. >> they're expecting a recession. stuart: let's get right at it, dan -- >> that's what i see coming. stuart: you've been predicting a big stock market selloff. end this interview by telling us how big, what level do we go down to, and when does the selloff startsome go. >> okay. based on my indicatorsings we're looking at july will be the peak in the equity markets. i'm looking for 3,000 points down on the dow to get it started. that's my point. when we hit the 3,000 down from where we are now, then we might get a little bounce, but then i see over the next two years that the market will go into a similar slide from 1973 and 1974. and, again, a lot of this is based on what's going on in washington being against trump. stuart: all right. we heard it.

dan schafer, thanks for being with us again. we appreciate it, sir, thank you very much. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: i want to bring many john fund. he's got an idea or two about how to get obamacare fixed and done with. your idea -- let me paraphrase this, see if i can get it right. your idea is that president trump should tell congress, hey, your exemption from obamacare is gone. you're in, live with it. >> when obamacare passed, congress and its staff were treated as everybody else was. but once obamacare was implemented, congress and the staff went to president obama and said give us an exemption. he picked up his phone, he called the office of personnel management which handles federal employees and said declare congress a small business, under 50 employees, for purposes of the district of columbia exchange that it's in. that allows it to congress and its staff to get a 70% subsidy on their insurance premiums.

this is blatantly illegal, has been challenged in court but no one has standing to sue. if president trump just called his office of personnel management and say obey the law, congress would have to live under obamacare, they would be in the exchanges, insurance costs would explode. and guess what? the d.c. exchange, do you know how much premiums are going up this year? 26%. they would be hit with that. i'd bet congress would come back in special session -- [laughter] to deal with obamacare at that point. stuart: that's very good, john -- >> it's true! stuart: it's highly original. >> well, the independent women's forum, heather higgins had a piece in "the wall street journal" on monday, so it's not my idea. in fact, senator david visit earth of louisiana fought a lonely struggle to have congress covered by this law, and privately members of congress -- some of them will agree. but their staffs, their staffs wrote the lay, and their staffs crafted this exemption.

i say what's sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander, and if americans want relief are obamacare, make congress live under the laws they pass for the rest of us. stuart: that's a very -- i like that idea. it's very original and simple. you can actually do it. the president could pick up his pen and just write it out. >> now, congress will claim that he can't do it, but i would love to be the member of congress -- [laughter] who tries to sue and say, no, we should be treated special. stuart: that's good. one last one. total debacle last night, total fail on obamacare. why should we hi, why should we believe, why should we hope that we'll get anything on tax cuts? >> well, what john mccain did -- and, of course, we were very upset about his illness, but it was inexplicable. he ran commercials last year saying i will end obamacare. he barely won his primary by about 15 points, the smallest margin he's ever had, and now he reversed his course and is the one vote to save obamacare, the decisive vote? i think he's let down his constituents in arizona based on

what he told them in his campaign. stuart: thanks for joining us, john fund, national review. >> thank you. stuart: we brought you broking news on -- breaking news on north korea's latest missile launch. the pentagon has now confirmed the launch, it happened, confirmed it to fox news. they're still assessing what impact, if any. japan's prime minister, shinzo abe, is converging an emergency meeting. it landed in waters off japan. it was in the air for 45 minutes according to japanese government officials, that is. we will bring you any additional headlines. no impact on our stock market or the price of gold whatsoever. i want to alert this story. outgoing ge ceo, jeff immelt, on the short list as the next uber chief. and just last night, meg whitman -- another name on the short list for the uber job -- she says she's not interested. what's that all about? treasury secretary steve mnuchin on capitol hill repeated by cut off by democratic

congresswoman maxine waters. she wouldn't let the secretary answer questions. we'll play you the sound bite in just a moment. and in the two most populace states in the country, the economy is booming in one and tanking in another. can you guess which is booming and tanking? it's easy. and look at this, three new crew members from the international space station are are are scheduled to launch from kazahkstan. they'll spend more than four months together before returning to the earth in december. we're counting down, you're going to watch this right now. it's about to take ignition. i can't hear the countdown, but it's happening. ignition and liftoff. >> sergei, randy and paulo rocketing away and on their way to the international space station. >> and liftoff. >> you can see the very bright first engines cutting across the night sky there.

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treasury secretary mnuchin. joining us now from the blaze, the host thereof, my close friend, lawrence jones. all right, lawrence -- >> i'm your brother. i'm your brother. stuart: okay, you got it. seriously, that was ugly. i thought it was rudeness, and i think it says a lot about the state of personal animosity in politics today. your take, please. >> well, the problem with maxine waters is now she's the leader of the resistance. so you're going to see this sloppiness. she's cursing at events, she's strong arming people within her own party. the leader of the resistance, but now she made a statement saying if millennials want her to run for president, then she'll run for president. of course, she's going to be mean, she's going to be nasty. she's setting herself up for a run for president. stuart: so what's your take on her standing within the democrat party? >> well, her standing from a national standpoint is great, but when you look at her in her

own district can, the district that she doesn't even live in because, you know, she has that $4 million mansion in the rich neighborhood, is really poor. i mean, she just had a democratic primary challenge. when you look at the people in her district, many people that look like me, the wealth of those people, the income is going down in that district. now, the cost of living in her district is going up, but wealth for black folks in the district is going down. so i'm hoping that people in the district will finally wake up and say she's not benefiting us, she's benefiting the rich people and people in the community that she actually lives in which is that $4 million mansion, not a poverty-stricken neighborhood in south l.a. stuart: i just thought it was ugly to see that -- >> well, she's a nasty person. stuart: okay. we asked our viewers before the break which state they thought had the fastest growing economy in the first quarter of the year. the answer is texas is the winner, 3.9% growth.

by contrast, california only .1% growth. now, lawrence, you're a texas guy. what do are you guys -- what are you guys doing so right? >> well, first, we don't have a state tax and then we're drilling a lot. and so what we're seeing now is because now we have president donald trump in office now, a lot of those standards when it came to oil and gas as well as clean energy, as well as fracking in the state of texas, all those bans that were going on from the epa under the obama administration are being lifted. so now you see us going back to work in those areas. stuart: you have lower taxes, you've got the energy boom. california -- >> lower taxes and no state tax. stuart: yes. that's very important, actually. california, by contrast, is high tax. they're the home of hollywood and all that. they've got finance, they've got insurance, they've got retail, they've got agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining. all of those, we are told, drag

on the california economy. i find that rather surprising, actually. >> it does. and this is why even in texas now we're saying that we're open for business. and so if you're living in california or where you're at right now, stuart, in new york and you want to have a climate that invites business to come and we want you to prosper so the citizens of texas can get more money with your business, come to texas. come on to texas. and once we started that pr push, we're seeing a lot of those businesses leave those states and come to texas. even when we're talking about from an entertainment perspective. austin, texas -- which is kind of liberal, but it still has a state that is inviting -- a lot of people in the entertainment industry are moving down to texas. stuart: i just love the look on your face when you say, austin, kind of liberal. [laughter]

>> it is kind of liberal. [laughter] stuart: you can come back anytime. >> thanks, brother. see you soon. stuart: i've got to take a look at exxon. why? because that stock price is at an 18 month low. not good, down 2% today. american airlines doing better than wall street expected. that's usually a good sign, but it's not today. down nearly 2 percent. $49 a share. now this, another varney stole the show on "fox & friends" this morning. that's my daughter, angela. interning on that show for the whole summer. she got a chance to give the weather report today. i'm a proud father, we'll play you the clip in a moment. that's angela, right there. ♪ ♪ ♪

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audience, i'm very disappointed. >> no, i told him i'd call security if he showed up to watch me. [laughter] he's upstairs. >> angie has been one of my favorites, and she is going to do the weather for us today. are you ready, angie? >> i think so. >> are you guys ready for angie? [cheers and applause] all right, take it away, my girlfriend. >> here's a look at your current temps. 73 in new york city for our summer concert series, partly cloudy skies. we are watching the threat of storms across the southeast and mid-atlantic with strong winds and heavy rain. flash flooding could also be a problem over the southwest and the heat continues across the southern plains this weekend. that's a look for your current forecast. back to you, ainsley, steve and brian. [cheers and applause] stuart: i thought -- cheryl casone is with me, watching her. i thought it was pretty good. of course, i'm -- >> you're biased. no, she did great. i think i just watched my replacement on television. she was wonderful, she's got it. people talk about the it fact or, and i'm not just saying in

this because i like you, i think she did a great job. stuart: she's a wonderful daughter. >> does she see he's on air? -- herself on air? stuart: i'll keep that quiet. >> okay. [laughter] all right. >> is she your favorite? stuart: what? i've got six -- i don't have favorites, okay? is they're all wonderful as far as i'm concerned. they really are. >> just wondering. stuart: we'll be back. [laughter] ♪ ♪

. . . stuart: cheryl casone has been sitting with me for much of the last hour. most interesting story of the day to you? cheryl: i think anthony scaramucci, the new white house communications director. interview he gave to the new yorker, has likely learned his lesson that what you saver -- verbatim to the reporter is

going to be reported. stuart: quickly, check amazon, still way down. bottom line here is the value punters, the bargain hunters have not yet bought this not to any degree. time's up. friday lunchtime. neil: thanks, rejection of the so-called skinny repeal measure. what happens now. the president trump says the senate must go to 51 majority. remember on this particular undertaking those were the rules that affected simple majority and they couldn't cobble that together. we are following the fallout from all of that. surprising limbed stocks. i have expected this morning that futures would be tanking, they weren't. the markets continued to surprise and defy expectations, we are going to get into that and what it might mane for taxes, conservative reviews, real clear politics national political reporter caitlin hugh burns.