that. however, it's still on the individual side in materials of the task code so they get a big raspberry for that. m big weekend this week and dagen and see you sunday morning futures as well as wall street week joining us my thanks to all star panel and get over to stuart varney and "varney & company." >> don't forget to change your clocks more good stuff for us early morning people. thank you maria let's get this straight america is growing. america is creating new jobs, and america does have the world's most valuable company. shall we call it a win? gork everyone. if you're just joining us here's the news on jobs 261,000 created last month. an extra 90,000 jobs now reported for the previous tbhonts unemployment rate down a 17-year low if you add that to the long list of positive news items it is clear the economy is

broken out of the area and expanding faster than any time in the last ten years in my opinion, this is largely as a result of a trump presidency. got is. now look at this 900 billion that is how much apple is now worth. it is the most valuable company in the world. and this is how the stock will open today. a new high -- their profit reports late yesterday blew everybody away. can't resist one more or very big number. two p 268.9 billion dlars how much cash apple has more than any other company and more than most governments. got it. stocks across the board they're going higher this morning but not much but tax plan son the table good for business. investors like this and they really love a physical profits not a bad way to start a friday. "varney & company" is about to begin.

big, big day for politics, of course, the money look at this president trump i think he's if to leave. joint based andrews he's headed to hawaii first that starts his trip to asia the longest presidential trip to that region since bush '41 back many 1992 he'll visit japan, south korea, china, vietnam, and philippines. by the way, lloyd ceo of goldman sachs will join the president on this trip along with a whole host of top ceos from a range of companies. more on that later. but apple please stock of the day looks like a record high when trading begins today we've got about 174, 175 roughly. apple gave a rosy forecast for the holidays and there was a long line at the apple store in new york city this morning. and elsewhere -- it as the iphone 10 hit the stores. different story at starbucks

sales fell short. oh, dear not goods. and they are feeling the heat if from boutique coffee sellers and even big guys like mcdonald's. 54 bucks on starbucks. all right the state of the economy this friday morning, john chief of capital market economy, first of all 261,000 new jobs -- the overall jobs report how would you characterize it? >> solid you know solid -- i think it is for the recovery i'm pleasedlet nots overlook that 4.1% unemployment rate when was last time it was so low better yet we have a low unemployment rate with no sign of faster price inflation. we have no monthly increase bit average wage. some say that's not too good but from the perspective of those that worry about inflation it is good news. >> you're way out on a limb. i mean here you are bumped up great economy here question go boys. but solid economy look at first time jobless claims i've never been so -- wow relative to overall labor market in the history of the

united states. >> don't let me jump in and spoil this party john. but i'm going to. we've gouts 3% growth right now. if we get the tax plan in place, somewhat similar to what we've got for tax plan what growth rate do you get next year? sm at least 3% if not higher. one of the -- well that doesn't say much. at least we've got 3% now. >> all of these years of having groats over 2% will be celebrated you -- >> haven't you done the math 3.5% get that number out -- no i'm saying one thing we don't want to overlook is for the two -- first two full quarters of the trump presidency, we're looking at productivity greet and excess of 2% annually that's incredible considering the last four years of the previous administration productivity growth average less than 1% you get practicivety growth like that chances are they 3.5% might prove to be on low side and why are we seeing

such rapid growth deregulation that was a very is smart thing that trump did and that's costless and that's going to help the economy considerly going forward. >> what did you have for breakfast. not coffees or what -- come on. that's pretty good. so you're perfectly happy with the state of economy now and in the future. it's good. it looks very good going out one year. solid default on corporate side is are falling over next 12 months what could go wrong something external. don't spoil it stay there and we'll hold you over in the market opens 9:30. still going gang busters. okay. thank you very much john. i've got to get to apple very strong profits. and sales and by the way the iphone so hit the stores earlier this morning. joining us now lance chief cor respondent with apple big picture please -- is thes iphone x a smash success? >> i think it may be based on line i just saw this morning i was actually at the apple store

up town on piflt avenue it is biggest line i've seen in years most excitement yes, there are people on that line who are buying into basically flip the phone. sell it -- take it to china, elsewhere. but there was a lot of excitement and also i've been testing this phone or for ten days or 11 days now and people would stop me on the street they saw it and want to touch it and sew it. there's interest that is at a whole new level despite -- >> the price. >> yeah. it is really stunning to me that we have such a big price jump and yet people are still going for it. but etch knows you pay most of the people pay monthly i don't know if it cost much as couple of cups of coffee over a month place like cooke said but that's really how you pay. >> you've had it it for ten days what single feature which you think retail buyers will like more than anything else. >> face id and you know that coming right from the notch here that means that i unlock it with my face and it happens immediately literally time it

takes me to do this it is unlocked it is unlocked now it happened it just happens like that. >> so you put it in front of you you look at it. >> honestly it is like i can do it sort of like from here -- and so to be glancing at it and it has happened so -- it's not like you know it is oh i have to hold it like that but really good technology that true depth camera also adds features ability to take portrait mode shots with selfies you love selfies. >> that's what i thought i live on it. >> the nerve -- they have fun peeves like emojis but again this is the disease i think is inspiring people . 5.8 inch screen and smaller than iphone 8 which has a smaller screen . : sold on it? >> i really like this device i got used to the notch and by the way you may have noticed there's no home button. >> no rob with the apple brand

but king of the hill. >> yeah. i think as long as they deliver products that inspire. and you can see what happens when they do. >> that inspired you? >> it really did if you read beginning of my review people made fun of me the way i wrote it but i wanted convey emotion t is kind of reads like a steamy novel but it really does -- >> but i'm having fun -- and post it on our facebook phage. [laughter] >> you're all right thank you very much indeed sir i have to move quickly to get in tax reform, and wring in congressman tom reid republican from new york. congressman reid is a member of the tax writing are committee. congressman, welcome back. you are from a high tax state. some of your constituents will end pup paying more because they lose the deduction for states and local income taxes. are you going to support it? j yeah i think we're on a path to a compromise that's going to bring are a lot of us especially us in the upstate area the value of homes, income level that we're repghtinging in our area much different than inside the

city. and so i think there's a compromise here and i'm comfort where we're at and get a better deal. >> better dole for state and local income taxes? you have to, maybe if they demonstrate so far is good faith and negotiation trying to protects as much more people as they possibly can. that argument carries sol weight and that's why we did not eliminate entirely. i think that's good and i would have not supported the bill if we would have done that. >> a shell game it's a ponzi scheme and perpetuated by business, and senate leader -- democrat leader charles schumer says it is a tax burden placed on the palace what's your response to that? >> i wouldn't expect anything different from those folks on leadership on the other side of the aisle beholden to their extreme base they're going to fight it tooth and nail and follow elizabeth warren and bernie sanders but at the pend

of the day if we're about getting things done for american company and 1600 that's a trip to disney world that's a trip to -- visit their kid in the south that got drove out of new york state because of high tax that's an opportunity to explore it's their money stuart and then >> it is with and big deal for your constituents in your area -- is this doubling of the standard deduction because that's what injects the most into your constituents pockets am i right? >> ame because you look at our district average wage 40 for a family of four. starngd deduction doubling take it is from 72 people itemizing up to 5 to 97%. that means simplicity that means people know what their tax code will look like and that's what another success of what we put forward here is looking like. >> congressman had tom reid thank you so much for joining us. john lon what do you make -- let me address first of all speaker plon see is shell game.

perpetwaited by business a tax u burden on the middle-class, you're an economist what do you say? >> that's gross exaggeration that create jobs in this country and if you lower their tax rate if you make it easier for bidses with a trillion dollars of cash goafs to bring it back to the united states it is going to benefit the average american overtime. >> one your left-hand side of jr. screen i believe that's marine one, the president's helicopter -- landing to joint base andrews he'll get out of the koapt and go across to air force one and then take off for the first to hawaii on the first stop first level of his asia trip. by the way, i believe that the president did speak briefly with er earlier and bring that to you momentarily you're going to see it right now marine one with

landing there joint base andrews as we look at the dow industrials, we've got what, about 15, 16 minutes to go before we start trading this friday morning. we're going to be up about 30 point and 23,350 not bad would you say. . not bad at all. under the wood from your morning. i'm starting slowly building into this friday stew, in fact, a lot of stuff going on i'm going through the stories for you there's plenty to talk about in next three hours believe me. >> jam-packed news day apple had just -- fascinating me. what 900 billion dollars that's what the company is wot. i believe that's the most valuable xan in the world. >> sounds like the gdp of some of these countries. [laughter] yes. that's right they've got more. they've got 268 .9 billion dollars cash. lance is still with us to spend

658 billion on. >> they could buy twitter but they wouldn't. you know what they'll do they'll do what they've done is buy small technology companies and hold on to it and use other products and nay ended up inside here. this is what apple dusts. we have the tape from president speaking to reporters. >> a long trip imrn some i know inform you are coming with us we look forward to. we're staying an extra day in the philippines with a big conference the second conference, and i think we're going to have to great success we'll be talking about trade, we'll be talking about, obviously, north korea. enlisting people and countries see what happens but we're going to have a successful trip there's aiflt a lot of good will. i don't remember about that meeting it was a very

unimportant meeting took place a long time i don't remember much about it. [inaudible conversations] all i can tell you is this there was no collusion. there was no thouing. it's a disgrace frankly that they continue. you ought to look at hillary clinton and you ought to look at new book that was just put out by donna brazil she bought the dnc and she sold election from bernie so that's what you ought to take a look at. what we're doing is every time we're attacked from this point forward and it took place yesterday, we are hitting them ten times harder so when we have an animal do an taig like he did the other day on the west side of manhattan we are hitting them ten times harder they claim to a

soldier good luck every time they hit us we know that is we hit them like you folk won't believe thank you i will see you, i will see you in pearl harbor we're going to pearl harbor. i don't know i'm not involved with the justice department i would like to let it run itself but, obviously, they should be looking at the democrats. they should be looking at all of that dishonesty. they should be looking at a lot of things and a lot of people are disappointed in the justice department including me. thank you everybody. thank you. [laughter] >> never misses chance now does he? talking about the animal that will be the terrorist who attacked new york city. he says we're going to hit them ten times harder and gungt miss an opportunity to have a go at hillary clinton. no collusion on my part. according to the president -- just look at hillary she bought the election. >> stole it. that's the wrord he use stole he

gets a lot in a short amount of time do you remember the day of president obama in news conferences -- five or six and seven minute to be get on marine one free for five or six questions boom, boom, boom hard hit hadding answers. different kind of president. are we usedded to it? no but going to air force one and going to hawaii. now i want to get back to tax reform that's the big, big economic story. shares of home builders were down yesterday. after we all found out that the tax reform plan caps the mortgage interest deduction on new mortgages caps it at 500,000. coming in michael bellman is president and ceo of the associated builders and contractors. you -- i don't think you like that provision in the tax law, do you? >> well actually our ,000

members build residential hospitals, you know education and institutions industrials so -- residential a small slice of our pie and we look at totality we think it is solid. and we like the fact that the work force is going to get a good break and get another dollar in paycheck on friday the 20% corporate in the 25% small tax -- small business taxes is solid. >> now you're the ceo of the associated builders and contractors. and that's the group that you represent and you are for this or particular peak, sir, program. would you want to make any changes in it? smg well there are some things that we're running through in terms of analyzing so i've been tag to a couple of our members yetdz and we're working through this past route 25% seeing how it is going to apply. we understand the floor of 7030 but we also understand that there's a capital investment formula. for our capital intensive

businesses, that can drive that mix even more favorably so we're running some numbers in hopefully we'll have some good scenarios in what will work with the committee to get it right. >> you must have heard from your members -- are they planning an expansion here. you know what's coming down the pike roughly speaking at least. planning to expand in -- >> in terms of employment. >> absolutely we have 500,000 jobs open right now least time we were employed 1 million more people in the industry and we're looking for workers and excited about soflt provision in tax plan 529 are expanding their scope to cover a apprenticeship earned while you learn moldses which are big in our industry something that's really excite. >> that's what was the biggest thing that advantage to you and your members in this tax plan? >> i think the whole totality

lower rates for our work force and 20% corporate and 25% small business tax as well as the estate tax for our family family businesses 99% employ less than 1 million poem and most are family owned businesses so a nice win and good beginning or for us. >> perpetrated by business and schumer says tax burden placed on middle-classier response to that? >> i don't sew that i'm not sure what they're looking at. what i've been looking at shows benefit to workers it shows benefits to my member companies. >> sir, we appreciate you being with us a very busy day today so i do apologize if i kept it a little short but michael thanks so much for being with us sir, oblige to you. okay. >> thank you very much. if you look at the bottom rngd corner of your screen as you'res now soot we're going to open 40

point high per on dow industrial first thing this morning moving to another new high. president trump's twitter account offline for 11 minutes because of one rogue employee. we're going to explain that in just a moment.

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>> we like to bring you the markets down ten cents next case president trump twitter account well we're down last night he tweeted it be this morning here we go many my twitter% was taken down for see 11 mirps by a rogue employee and word might be having an impacts. what happened? >> down for 11 minutes yesterday evening. deact vatted by twitter employee twitter saying this, we have learned this was done by a twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day. we are conducting a full internal review. of course it raises lots of question about how does twitter secure account like this to have significant political influence around the world. how many people can actually either delete or tamper with -- someone who doesn't like trump and cut his account. 11 minutes. i have a question, that will be you john, consumer confidence highest since 2000 presidential

approval level lower than a long time. how do you explain that? >> well the answer is right here a lot of young people have been intense dislike for this president no matter how much good he does for the economy or future job opportunities. i don't know how else you do it sort of like in style. it's in fashion to dislike this president if you're one of these younger individual that's all there is to it i don't know what will change you. >> i think you're right about the twitter about the at the heart of some of the dislike of the president your disapproval of him because he says what are punish things on that. he does not hold back and goes over the head had of the yods and communicates to everybody. personally i love it. >> a lot of snowflakes out there what do you expect with a heartened sensitivity no you're no good and you're bad. >> like when he tweets about this show. we have a few second minutes to go before we open this market. we will open this market higher this friday morning.

the president has departed for his trip to asia tax plan is on the table and we've got according to john lon a solid report on jobs market first thing this morning here we go back in a second with the opening bell. . . everyone's got to listen to mom.

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stuart: well, well, it is friday morning, this is going to be a big day on the market especially for apple. the opening bell is about to start ringing, trading will begin in about 5 seconds time. we are expecting the modest gain right at the opening bell. after that, who knows where. we are up, we are running, 9:30 eastern friday mourning, 33, 34 points higher. yes, the futures were right, the modest upside gain, but that is, by the way, an all-time high for the dow industrials. never been at 23,555 before but we just made it right there. friday morning, who is with me, jeff sica, first of all, ashley remember ster, let's not forget the man -- ashley: please don't. stuart: john -- no, that's jeff sica. i'm doing this deliberately to the director. i'm really annoying her. i'm stuart varney. [laughter] stuart: first of all, i want to

talk about the apple iphone, sales go on today, iphone 10, that is. the stock just opened, all-time record high, 3 and a half percent gain, so jeff sica, would you buy it -- >> no,. [laughter] >> you know that i thought apple has been overpriced for a while. stuart: overpriced for a while? >> it's been overprice. tim cook got himself a free by because this summer does not reflect the slow iphone 8 sales, so for my perspective u apple, yes, this was a big number, it's blowing everybody away in terms of the near a trillion dollar number, getting to that level but what people have to be aware of is apple's plan of rolling out new versions of old products bolting on gimmicks, this phone -- the x is about 40% higher than the 8 and my question is, what happened to the 9, we go from the 8 to 10 to 40% higher

phone and it's going to take a lot of love for apple for people to step up. ashley: perhaps the bigger question is what comes now? how do you improve on this? do you bolt on new features and charges 1200 bucks. >> i'm not paying 40 more percent for the phones to recognize me. stuart: don't you like the emojis? >> it's not happening. stuart: as of right now, apple is worth $895.8 billion. >> right. this is a consumer electronic company right now. they make all their money selling one product that they put features on, but one product and, you know what, that's fine for apple, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, amazon, google, facebook are innovating, apple is not. stuart: you spent two and a half

minutes having a go at the stock of the day. well done, sica. welcome to my world. i have to get to starbucks. this is important, the company trimmed profit forecast, by the way, sales fell short. you know, those boutique coffee shops are making interim. stock is only down a third of a percent. the stock was much more down yesterday. the selling tazo tea. tazo tea. they are selling it to unilever. ashley: the question why did they bought it in 1989 for 8.9 billion. stuart: wait, they bought it for 8.1 billion and they are selling 300 -- ashley: pretty good mark-up. pretty good business. stuart: i call that a profit. >> i would say that's true. what i love about the comments,

we want to focus our tea efforts, tea efforts apparently on the tea varner brand. stuart: they made a profit and they are out of it. [laughter] stuart: this is a coffee-drinking right-center nation. am i right or am i right? we are not going to go to jeff sica. we've had enough of this good news of the day. john, repeat your comment about the job's report and characterize it? >> i think it's a solid number. what i like about it is that it gives no hint of faster price inflation, that's going to keep interest rates relatively low which will provide valuable support to the equity market. we say the equity market is overvalued but if you compare some of the earnings to price ratios with interest rates, the equity market still looks attractively priced. it could go even higher.

stuart: very interesting. >> when you're tell manager e that the ten-year treasury yield is going to have a hard time making it above 2 and a half percent over next 12 months, equities look fairly pricey. stuart: i'm going to turn to jeff sica to see if has anything to say about the job's report. >> i'm not denying that the economy is improving. a lot of optimism. here is what we have to worry about even with the job's report. if for some reason we hit a snag with the tax plan, we are going to see a pullback. so i think the market is priced to perfection and, yes, i agree with john, there's not a heck of a lot of other places to go. we have been in this place for nine years. stuart: about to turn negative in the dow industrials, 35 points, down 3 points, 4, points, 5 points. we've had a turnaround in the couple of minutes of business.

individual stocks making the news and i'm going to quote them for you. cvs, less money coming in, lower ad sales, i wonder if that's got something to do with football, i'm not sure about that, the lower ad sales down. game-maker, falling short, but the company today releases a new call of duty game that's usually a huge event, the stock is down a buck. let's not forget general electric, the stock closed below 20 bucks a share, first time in five years. jeff, are you buying below 20? >> last year i said i would pack out and i withheld doing that because there's one major concern i have with ge and that's the 4er dividend. flannery with a great, great ceo. he is going to cut a minimum of $2 billion, he's going to streamline the company, he has said he's going to protect that dividend but if he opts to cut that dividend, i think the stock is going lower. if i get some support on the

dividend, i'm going to begin pecking at this very hard because it's got an upside. stuart: all depends on the dividend to you. got it. you know the names, animal planet, tlc, discovery channel, parent -- discovery communications, they reported accelerated decline in subscribers to all those channels. is that cord cutting? ashley: it is cord cutting, that's a bad sign, down 5% for the quarter. they are losing a lot of the smaller channels that belong to discovery, the big one, discovery of self and the other channels associated with the discovery are losing subscribers, last week comcast reported largest of t subscribers. at&t all reporting subscribers

losses. stuart: it really has. we are keeping an eye on blue apron stock. hit a new low yesterday, down again today, that stock is down 60% since its ipo. jeff, you're not touching this? >> no, as a matter of fact, i would fire up the organ for this because i think the bottom line with blue apron is -- ♪ ♪ ♪ ashley: there it is. >> about to force it into extinction because they will offer delivery food and there's a lot of offerings coming online. blue apron has lost their opportunity. it's over, i see no future for them. stuart: that's tough stuff, jeff don't boss me when i talk about the federal reserve. looks to me, john, like steady she goes, modest rate increases

because of this new guy. >> exactly, that's just what the u.s. economy needs. i think it's a very wise choice and will serve u.s. economy well going forward. as you said, interest rates are not about to go through the roof -- stuart: a bit late i thought. you could have buzz me in the beginning. no big deal. >> no big deal. >> also emphasis on deregulation specially for smaller financial institutions, smaller banks, very good idea. stuart: got it. president trump heading to china next week and joined by more than two dozen deal makers, titans of the industry, ceo's of goldman sachs, qualcomm. jeff, he's taking business leaders with them, over two dozens of the titan of the industry. >> i will say this is probably one of the most important economic things that trump has ever done. the trade deficit with china is onerous, we need to do something about it. i believe the position he's

going to take which i think is very smart is he's going to encourage china to allow us to invest in the -- in china companies, he's going to encourage us to be more active with china and i think from that perspective, this -- this conference is crucial. stuart: we all thought that the president was going to asia to put pressure on north korea, but in fact, it's a positive opportunity for business and all the business leaders he's taking with him. >> when it comes to china and their policies, i think he's going to blow this up. he's got to be very specific that, yes, they have to intervene with north korea, but the trade deficit needs to be dealt with. there's billions of dollars to be made for this country. stuart: stay off twitter, mr. president. >> a lot of people would be shocked that the number of cars general motors sells in china. it's almost as many if not greater than the numbers sold in the united states now.

stuart: car market in china is the most expanding, biggest car market on the planet at this point. >> every industry, every industry relies on china for growth or we won't have growth, so if we get -- if we make progress and start getting growth every single industry is going to benefit. stuart: we hear you jeff sica, regrettably it's 9:40, time to say good-bye. no, are they staying? we are not throwing them out? what a guy. [laughter] stuart: check the big board. [laughter] stuart: we are down 17 points for dow industrials, just a tad below, 23,500. gary cohn, would the president's tax plan be retroactive to january 1st of this year. that is a very big deal. are we looking at a christmas timeline to get this thing done, how would he make sure that companies bring cash back from

overseas. gary cohn, we have the questions for him, i think he has some answers. we will be back.

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is up 61%. so this falls into the original programming category, but here is the hitch with these numbers, a spokesman from netflix says, we keep our viewership numbers private. their mass might be from the upside down which is a direct reference referring to the alternate dimension of the show stranger things. stuart: good explanation, lori. i am nostalgic, very true. ladies and gentlemen, we were expecting to have gary cohn on the program right now but there's a situation at the white house, there's a person in custody after a call was made about an explosive along the outer fence at the white house. the secret service shut everything down, they're investigating, in all this clear, we do hope to have gary cohn was. should be about ten minutes away, maybe. but we will get mr. cohn on the show as soon as he gets to the camera. now this, the gop tax bill announced yesterday actually

kills that 72,500-dollar electric vehicle credit, that would seem to me bad news for tesla. >> there's a lot of companies that are trying to bring this type of technology to the forefront forward and i don't think it really matters much in a macro sense at all. stuart: what do you mean? >> first of all, not the greatest idea to have the government try to steer companies into a technology when there's a lot of momentum moving in that direction in the first place. stuart: jeff, go ahead. >> i'm no fan of tesla. everybody knows that. but here is what i see, is this tax cut put the industry on an on-level playing field. now that it's going to be potentially be removed. we will see how tesla will do against car makers without tax incentive. ashley: it doesn't remove state tax credits and other incentives

provided fbi state. stuart: can california can still go on and on. ashley: tesla uses the credit as part of pricing calculation. it is going to hurt them in that sense. stuart: i wonder about general motors, they are coming out strong with electric. ashley: bolt. >> you're talking about 1%. there's 1% in electric cars. electric cars might have a future 20 years down the road, in the immediate future, they're not as relevant as people are making them out to be. i do think the future is in electric cars, but it's certainly not in the near future. stuart: you know, i go back to a review that i read the chevy bolt, in the wall street journal, their reporter had taken this thing out for a ride, he was reviewing the chevy bolt and he really liked the user experience, acceleration was terrific, it was really quiet, he felt like you were in a spaceship, it was futuristic, the guy loved it. that turned the equation around for me for electric cars. ashley: once you try it, you can

easily get hooked. just take a test drive because it's a very attractive -- >> you do love it until you get to 250 miles and then you to plug it in again. [laughter] stuart: they are going to solve that. if the users experience of electric car is so superior from the old-lying gasoline powered car, i really can see that thing being a thing of the future. >> could be, are you buying one? >> i'm going to take the test drive of one. >> some people like the turn the key and hear something. i like to turn the key and hear something besides of breathing. stuart: i used to drive a porsche and racing tires on the back, when you turned the key on, it felt good. next case, look at the stock price of chip maker, will

legally relocate home address to the united states, they coming back from singapore. what do economists say about that? >> lower taxes and business-friendly environment, of course, you have a lot of innovators, scientists and engineers reporting to the industry. stuart: looks good for pr -- ashley: they've committed to coming back even if this tax bill doesn't fly. stuart: really? ashley: if it doesn't pass, regardless we are coming back. stuart: they moved two years ago and now they are moving back again. what's the cost of moving? ashley: that's a very good question. stuart: the stock is up. all right, i'm going to try gary cohn economic adviser to the president, he will be with us at 10:15 this morning. i believe we are going to take a commercial break. you know we pay the bills here. back in a second.

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stuart: donna brazile, by the way, the dow industrials are down 23 points, all right, i will repeat this. donna brazile and her new book says the dnc rigged the election for hillary clinton and kept bernie sanders out. matt is with us from the american conservative union. is this the end of the clintons? politically? >> boy, i mean, clearly half of the party is all done with the

clintons, they don't want to see them again but i think the democrats, stuart, i think you're onto something, donna brazile and all the insiders of the democratic party, elizabeth warren, i do think they are done with them, criminal syndicate to go away. stuart: they are escape artists in realistic sense. i get the sense, though, that they can't escape this politically at this point. >> yeah, look, they should not have escaped all of the criminal wrong doingings including the criminal wrong doings with the dossier, but you have leading democrats, including donna brazile, leaked the question about the flynn water crisis to the clinton camp against bernie sanders in the primary, even she as a clinton apologist is turning against them. stuart: why did she do that? why would donna brazile who is a friend of the clintons, the interim chair of the democrat

party, why did she suddenly admit, yeah, hillary rigged it? >> it's a great barometer. when she found the smoking gun that the dnc had signed an agreement with clinton campaign to allow hillary clinton to rig the process so she could get nomination, she thood call bernie sanders, she had been part of the problem when she leaked the questions. it tells us all that the democratic party is truly changing, in this sense they are shedding themselves with the clintons. stuart: yes, but they are heading left. surely this gives bernie sanders and left-wing of the party a cloud. >> that's right. this is the big question that the nation has to face which is we are evenly divided politically, all the antitrump media out there, they're out to kill him and attack him and stop agenda, you have a big section of america that is increasingly

turning toward socialism, they are fine with the topic, they like what europe has done and bring it here and this is the big fight for the future of america and i think our conservative values, they have to win. stuart: i agree with you. i think we face a choice as a nation, are we going to be america unique and different or are we going to become more like europe neo-socialist. i keep talking. we are out of time. [laughter] stuart: i'm very sorry. >> great to be with you, stuart. stuart: thanks for jumping in the last minute, very much. we have three minutes to go and you will have my take on donna brazile and the clintons, back in a second from the market when it might be time to buy or sell? with fidelity's real-time analytics, you'll get clear, actionable alerts about potential investment opportunities in real time. fidelity. open an account today.

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stuart: it's over. the political life the clintons is done. it was donna brazile who delivered the final straw. former chair of the democrat

party reveals that hillary did indeed manipulate the party machinery to keep bernie sanders out. stated differently, the fix was in. hillary made sure bernie couldn't win the nomination. democrats are not happy. their own party rigged civil put forward a flawed candidate. they're thinking it could be president sanders. senator elizabeth warren, a bernie supporter, we have to hold the party accountable. there will be hell to pay. all coming down on the clintons. remember there are two two bubbling scandals. clintons spent millions of dollars funding of the dossier, that is disgrace. the clintons took in tens of millions as hillary as secretary of state okayed sale of american uranium to russia. the clintons are escape artists and lawyer up, and they have plausible denial of any legal wrongdoing.

this is politics, very different. they can not escape the political judgment of their own party. that judgment is, you cheated, you lost. you're done. as we speak, president trump is on his way to asia. he has a big win under his belt. the tax plan, the economy is growing and jobs are coming back. president trump totally dominates the scene. what a contrast. a year ago hillary thought she was going to be the president. times change. the second hour of "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ stuart: all right, we're 31 minutes into the trading session on a friday morning, look at this, we're down just 12 points but we just got some numbers released on the service sector of the economy. ash? ashley: talking about the growing economy, stu, you were talking about, the estimate was

for 58.5. blew away estimates. very strong number indeed. excuse me, let us not forget, that i'm going to cough again. let us also not forget over 70% of the labor force is services related this is a huge number, another indication that the economy is moving very well indeed. stuart: that is a very strong, number. big, big number. no impact on market. ashley: no. stuart: we're at 23,500 as we speak. we're still down 14, 15 points. that is where we are this friday morning. how about the s&p 500. give me apple. that is the stock of the day. it is up four bucks. 2.3% higher. iphone x on sale. long lines where you can get it. the apple is now worth at this price, worth almost $900 billion. ashley: wow. stuart: most valuable company in the world. ashley: that service number, put the cherry on top, strongest

number in 12 years. stuart: is that right? ashley: yes. stuart: that is very important. no impact on market. ashley: no. stuart: the economy is still growing and we're down 13 points on the dow. how about general electric. we closed below 20 bucks a share. struggling back to the tune of three cents, 19.97. starbucks, sales fell short. they have a rebound. they were down 5% when numbers came out this morning. we're back up 3%. 56 bucks on starbucks. got to talk tax reform. who better to tax tax reform, jim jordan republican from ohio. you have a big smile on your face. >> i love coming on your show. stuart: i know why you're smiling. you are smiling because all those rich liberals in high-taxed states are about to pay a lot more in tax and you love it, don't you? >> i am smiling the trend of this plan is to cut taxes,

simplify the code and grow our economy. three principles that matter pose. i think overall -- there have things have to be worked out as you rightly point out. stuart: sure. >> move in the right direction and something we conservatives think node to happen. stuart: you're in the freedom caucus? >> yes exactly right. stuart: your caucus will say yes on this. >> we need to work on the small business, pass-through rate. make sure the formula is right. we need to look at the hopefully the issue on, on the salt issue, the state and local issue will get resolved. but overall, i think moving into the right direction, what would you like to see on the salt issue? that is state and local taxes, which at the moment are deductible in the future will not. that means a lot of people pay a whole lot more? >> i would prefer frankly the deduction wasn't there. they're starting to talk about compromises to allow for local property taxes. if there is something worked out

to help us get votes, get overall package. corporate rates going down. corporate rate going to 20. getting rid of alternative minimum tax. all things that will lead to better growth and economic growth. stuart: have you no heart, jim jordan? all those people that live in new jersey, new york, connecticut, massachusetts illinois, and especially california they will be bled dry by this thing? have you no heart? >> i have a big heart. i want to cut rates for families to spend more money to spend on kids and grandkids. get rid of crazy alternative minimum tax. simplify the code. we always come back to this, it should be three key principles, will it actually cut taxes, let people keep more of their money? yes, this plan will do that. will it simplify the code? yes, this code is way too complicated. we need to simplify. you talk about this all the

time, stuart, will it lead to economic growth? stuart: yes. >> is it conducive to economic growth? everyone knows the corporate rate is biggest factor. those are things that we focus on principles that count. stuart: you think will produce more economic growth. we have 3% now? you think it is going above that significantly next year? >> yes i do. it has to. you know this. to deal with a debt of 20 trillion. you have to grow a lot more than the obama years, bumping along at percent, percent 1/2. under president trump, last two quarters hit three. we need 3% growth rate. we know this at some point, conservatives are pushing at this, you have to address the spending problem. stuart: i want to address my editorial at top of the hour. i will say it again, in my opinion the political life of the clintons, both of them is done. are you going to take issue with that, jim? >> doesn't surprise us that they were rigging the game at the dny. these are the same people that you said at opening statement, they paid for opposition

research dossier. this is the same lady, who when four americans gave their life for their country, i was on the benghazi committee, she issued a statement that night when tyrone woods is still fighting on the roof of the annex, she issued a statement blaming a video while he is fighting to save his life and saved his fellow countrymen, because she is focused on her political career and political future. shouldn't surprise you lie knit midst after tragedy like benghazi, pay for opposition research on opponent, you're rigging the game within the party, making sure they beat bernie sanders in democrat nominating process. stuart: jim, when we were talking about obamacare reform. there were no smiles from you. now we're talking about tax reform and hillary clinton. all smiles. what a guy. jim jordan. >> thank you, stuart, thank you. iphone x, you might have to line up for it. it is 1000 bucks. so far it looks likes a big

success. gene munster, loop venture managing partner is here. gene, welcome to the show. >> hello. thanks for having me. stuart: you're a big supporter of the apple 10? >> i really am. i'm surprised turnout, quickly put that into perspective. we're expecting the lines to be about double what the iphone 8 lines were back in september. this morning we measured, if you want to get technical, 4.7 times the size. stuart: you actually did that? you counted the line? >> we've done it since the very first iphone. every year we go to the fifth avenue store and count this. even though mathematically immaterial to the iphone business looking at those lines, it's a pulse in terms how consumers think about it. year seeing across the globe these lines. stuart: what is biggest single selling point on this 1000-dollar phone? can you put one item. >> it looks different.

first time in three years it is all different. there is all display. there is no wasted room at top and bottom of the phone. stuart: mean muenster, that's it? >> consumers like bigger screen and smaller form factor. stuart: what it tells me to total outsider of technology, tells me the apple brand, the cachet of apple x, reins supreme, king of the hill. >> king of the hill. apple reported results last night. results were good. what is most impressive those results didn't have any of this, little of this iphone x supreme brand approximately-through. that is still to come through the story. stuart: you have been on the show many times. we always ask you about apple and tesla. i read your tough about tesla. you say tesla will be the number one technology stock in five years. that's true? that's what you see? >> i think so. stuart: why? into we've taken a couple step

backs, the stock is down 30%. the reason why, even though they have production issue with the model 3, once it gets on the road it will fundamentally change how consumers think about electric vehicles. stuart: why? >> it is more simple to use. you don't have to go to the filling station. the interior is is a new paradigm. you don't have all the dials. very simple interior. more efficient. cheaper to have. typical car you have to maintenance. these require almost no maintenance. cost of ownership is lower. stuart: what about this $7500 tax credit which is being withdrawn under this tax plan? makes no difference to them? >> it will be a headwind. it will cause cost of vehicles to go up, at least model 3 by 15%. would i expect, my bet, that they end up lowering cost over time and probably share some of that burden with the consumer. stuart: i have to ask you this, full disclosure, do you own tesla stock? >> i do not own tesla stock. stuart: are you going to buy buy

it in the near future? >> i would love to buy it. since we do research i can'ts. stuart: you can't. >> i can't. stuart: you can talk it up but you can't buy the thing? >> we want to lay out groundwork what's happening. stuart: you said you don't have to spend time in filling stations. i got that. what do you mean? >> your car charges at night. you don't have to spring by the gas station anymore. repairs -- stuart: suppose i go on two-day trip, wherever? >> you probably do that three times a year. take another car to do that. or have a second car that's a gas car. stuart: you still think will be number one technology company stock, really -- >> just one quick thought here. stuart: go ahead. >> it is not just about the car. this is a piece that i think sometimes gets overlooked. their mission statement is to, accelerate global adoption of renewable energy. like it or not, this is a growing trend. and i think if they can do that, start displacing power

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stuart: look at that level, 23,500. red and green among the dow 30 stocks. i want to get to the tax plan. our next guest is a business owner. he will be affected by this plan. he is an old friend of the show, che wong, owner of boxed. on line retailer. >> hopefully affected postively bit plan. stuart: but you're not a subchapter s-corporation. you're a limited liability company, property size. >> yes. stuart: you will get if the tax deal goes through, maximum tax rate 20%. >> exactly. stuart: your taxes will be cut. are you going to use that money to expand? >> absolutely. we're in expansion mode for our company. doing $40,000 in sales 2013 to 100 million last year. it has been quite an expansion time for us. stuart: okay. you're expanding anyway. >> yep. stuart: will you expand more

because of the tax cut? >> more about folks getting rebates and more money in their pockets. for those folks, they can stock up, save a little bit more and spend a little bit more. stuart: you see it as flat-out plus? >> i see as a plus. there are certain kind of points of debate right now, the main thing everybody one is debating points, whether we should do it or not. universal everyone believes we should do tax reform in this country. everyone is debating merit, rather than debating whether we should do it or not. stuart: you are distribution center in bulge. >> items like toilet paper, oreo cookies, clorox wipes. living the dream. stuart: so am i, son. you got four distribution centers, mostly in the new york area, but you are expanding where? >> yeah. we're expanding all over the place. our business now, not just urban areas. it is in suburban and rural

areas across the country. look at the data, 30 million americans without a costco within a 30 minute drive of them. the brand of costco is ubiquitous but the locations aren't. if you don't live within 30 minutes, do you pay retail? we don't think so. we're offering them an alternative. stuart: are you going to the midwest. >> we are. midwest is big area. southwest as well. we ship anywhere to the lower 48 states. stuart: you have to tell me how up your expanding. your business is growing. i understand that. distribution centers, jobs, capital investment, where in the south and midwest? how many distribution centers? you can tell me. >> with our network we can cover 99%, 94% of the population in two days or less. as we look at the midwest that number goes up. i don't want to tip our hand in terms of local municipality but

we're definitely kicking few tires. stuart: wait a second, you're kicking few tires. what you are doing is going to local authorities saying how much will you give me if i expand in your town, that's what you're doing? >> not only that. how the distribution will work. stuart: yeah, yeah. >> also if they think i'm good-looking for not. really scientific factors. stuart: you're just like amazon. you will go where the best tax break is, won't you? >> no, i think we have, we have done sim is lar things in the past. but what we found is that it is more important than the area has a great work ethic. folks that really see joining us as a career, rather than 9:00 to 5:00 job. they value the fact that we're bringing in jobs that are actually skilled. these folks as we automate more and more centers are working with the state-of-the-art fulfillment center technology. if there is the match, that is where we go. stuart: i bet wall street investment bankers are all over you to do an ipo, haven't they? >> a lot of interesting dinners. stuart: don't hedge.

in the back of your mind, isn't it? >> to a certain extent. you know, at the end of the day we have investor too. you have to provide them with liquidity at some point in time. stuart: yeah. >> there is still a long way to go. stuart: you could bring in a lot of capital, couldn't you? >> i think we could especially the bull market. the market goes up and up. timing might be right. for us there is still way more execution to go. if we press the bell i'm coming here. you twice can press the bell with me. stuart: you're on. chieh, boxed. thank you very much. item sports interest, ezekiel elliot plays for the dallas cowboys sunday. federal appeals court grant ad stay on behalf of elliot, once again putting off his six-game suspension. the case continues to weave through the courts. meantime elliot will play sunday against kansas city chiefs. stuart: that is a big deal? ashley: that is a big deal. it was consider adlong shot that

the federal court would grant a statement he was not charged with domestic violence but the league did a year-long investigation and posed that suspension. interesting case. he can play against the chiefs this weekend. stuart: he will play. apple and the iphone. steve jobs as the dreamer. tim cook as the mechanic. what a contrast. we will explain and analyze. we'll be back.

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rigged primaries. let's go fbi and justice department. senator warren surprised. ashley: here is what she said. you might think your tweets are cute, real donald trump, it will not stop mueller's investigation or keep your people out of jail. he calls her pocahontas because? >> because she claimed to be native-american ancestry in order to get a job with harvard law school. she got the job but she was not qualified on the grounds that she did not have sufficient native-american blood with her. she rigged the racial spoils system. hence the nickname from the president pocahontas. ashley: talking of rigged, you will hear from the president on dnc, the fact that the clintons basically influenced the whole thing, through their money. stuart: senator warren came out, talking yesterday, talking about the hillary's fix of the democrat nomination.

ashley: yeah. stuart: she says the party has to be held accountable. in other words, she is firmly on the left and going right against the hillary clinton wing, what is left of it of the democrat party. ashley: the president commented on that. there you go, she stole the primary from bernie sanders. he promptly got on his plane. stuart: non-stop, isn't it? it never stops. the president is always in the news. he has always got a tweet and doing something. ashley: it will never going to change. stuart: that is true. he is 71 years old. ashley, got it. gary cohn, we believe is next.

stuart: dow jones industrial average is down 12 points. that is surprising. apple is way up. that will lift the dow. sharply on the downside, moving lower. big tech, look at it, facebook down, amazon, microsoft, alphabet also down. apple huge winner, up three bucks that would be up 2%. up 2% almost. 171 on apple. individually now, facebook, never got back to the 180 level after that earnings report and the statement they will have to pay out a lot of money to take care of the russian business. they're down to 177 as of right now. that is still pretty good. starbucks way down yesterday after they reported sales had fallen short. now a complete bounceback. up 2.7% at 56. how about general electric? ge is below $20 a share. at that level, it yields 4.5% in

dividend yield. ashley: for now. stuart: for now. that is under threat. it could be withdrawn. we have to say that. at 19.88 it yields 4 1/2% in dividend. blue apron, this is dreadful story if you ever invested in this thing when they did the ipo this year. it is down 60% from the ipo price. down 1.3% right now. here are two dow stocks which are hurts overall dow average. goldman sachs is a dow stock, down two bucks. having some influence on the dow. look at that, it just turned positive. i'm not quite sure where the loss from the dow is coming from. but it is still on the downside. i think we've all got that pretty clear at this moment. okay what else, have i got to deal with? i got microsoft. i tell you about that. yes, i do own it, it is 83.85,

down 20 cents. ashley: 83.85. stuart: that is what i was waiting for. in my ear, we have from the white house, economic director, gary cohn. we got you. i know you have a big smile. you did it. you were pushing hard for the tax plan, you got it. take a bow, sir, go ahead. >> no, bow, sir, but thank you. we have a house tax plan out. the house ways and means will work on it next couple weeks. hopefully we'll be on the house for the floor. the senate is equally working on their tax plan. we're excited to be working with both the house an senate on a tax plan. we think it will be great for america. stuart: the senate can not change it that much. because you're locked into 1 1/2 trillion dollars worth of tax cuts over a 10-year period. you can't exceed that. so there is a real limit what you can do with a house plan that we saw yesterday. >> stuart, you're right. on the reconciliation instructions we have to be within 1 1/2 trillion dollars

scoring over the 10-year window but that leaves us enormous amount of latitude. the senate will have their own plan. it will have quite a few similarities to the house but it will have some difference and then we will work out those differences. stuart: you're a new yorker and there is a lot of people in new york and new jersey and connecticut, and massachusetts and illinois, california, high incomer earners they will end up paying more on this tax plan. have you no heart, gary cohn, for these poor people, they will get slaughtered, and you know it! can you do anything for them? >> you have to look at the tax plan in its entirety. that is what we're trying to design. we've been trying to design a tax plan good for 300 million plus americans. the tax plan has a lot of different components to it. most importantly, we're trying to drive economic growth and we're trying to drive wages for middle-class americans. that is what is really important. when we drive economic growth,

everyone in the country wins. stuart: i have seen a republican this morning who is saying that you're financing big cut for a business, so the rest of america can pay more. people pay more, some people pay more to finance a big cut for corporate america. that sounds kind of realistic, doesn't it? >> no, stuart. what worry doing, we're making ourselves more competitive. we're lowering our business tax rates here in america, so we can compete with the rest of the world. today we can't compete. companies move offshore, they save 15 or 20% on the tax rate. so they domicile offshore, they move jobs offshore. we need the jobs back on who are. we need revenue back onshore so to tax it. we put out a couple economic studies when we move the jobs back onshore we'll grow wages in this country by $4,000 per family. growing wages is what is important in this country. stuart: yesterday, we were

breaking details of this plan, we heard from a republican who said, if you get it done this year, it will be retroactive to january the 1st of this year. no, you can't do that. it would cost too much, wouldn't isn't. >> stuart, we're trying to deliver great tax reform to the american public. we can't get it retroactive to this year. we're trying to do a tax plan that starts january 1st of next year. stuart: now you have a low tax rate, 12% for cash coming back to america. 5% for tangible assets coming back to america. you must have done the numbers. how much money do you expect to bring back for that tax holiday for that group? >> stuart, it is hundreds of billions of dollars are coming back. that is part of our calculation. remember, it is deemed, we're deeming that money coming back. so companies, the minute we pass this tax law, we get into 2018, they will have to accrue the liability. once they accrue the liability. they will pay the tax, move money back and invest it back in the u.s. economy.

stuart: we're hearing whispers in the senate they would like to move the corporate tax rate, maximum tax rate up to 22%. what would gary cohn say to that? >> gary cohn would say president trump will not agree to that. stuart: that is a short answer. you can't do this to me. i require conversation backwards and forward. you want to expound on this? >> no. look, stuart, as you and i talked many, many times, we have been very flexible on what we're willing to put in the tax reform package. there is really two areas where we have shown no flexibility. number one is a business tax rate. we need a corporate rate 20% or lower. there is a reason for that. the worldwide oecd rate is 22 or 23%. if we want to be competitive with the rest of the world we need to be below that rate and 20% is the number we need to be at or lower. we have another bright line test, we need to deliver middle class, middle income, hard-working families we need to

deliver them a tax cut. those are two areas where the president won't budge. everything else we're pretty flexible on. stuart: i'm sure you're working phones with senators from the united states senate. you got to be doing that. what is the sense that you're getting from those conversations? >> stuart, look we've been working with the house members. we're working with senators. we're working with everyone. we are all committed with both the house and senate to come up with a tax plan we can deliver to the president's desk this year for him to sign into law to be enacted on january 1st of 2018. stuart: every time we've spoken to you, you expressed confidence that you will get 218 votes in the house. looks like you have got that and you said we will get 50 votes in the senate. >> 51, stuart. 51. stuart: 51. you are very confident you will get it? >> we're confident as we've been. yesterday was a great step forward, getting the ways and means committee to put their plan out. we know the senate is working

equally as hard to get their plan out. the process is working through the normal way that we said it would. everything we've been talking about for the last nine months is literally happening as we speak right now. so we're very excited progress we're making. the president is off to asia. when he comes back, we said we'll have enormous amounts of progress. we hope to have bill when he gets back from asia in the house. stuart: nancy pelosi says it is shell game, ponzi scheme, perpetrated by business. senator schumer says it's a tax burden on the middle class. respond to that please. >> i don't think they have read the piece of legislation yet. i really don't. if they read it, they wouldn't say that. look what "the washington post" said yesterday, gave democrats four pinocchios and take down the texts because they're lying. stuart: great to interview with you. you have short sound bite responses. i'm used to conversation.

i don't get it to you. thanks for being on the show. >> my pleasure. stuart: gary cohn, you're all right. i want to bring in brian wesbury, first trust advisors chief economist. brian, your reaction to what gary cohn was saying. i know you're listening. your reaction, sir. >> when you put together deregulation which already happened, a budget that is actually growing spending for the u.s., slower than gdp and these tax cuts i think u.s. is going to see growth rates of about 1% higher than what we've been used over the last eight or nine years. stuart: wait a minute. 2% growth over last eight years. >> we're headed to 3%. stuart: you have roughly 3% now. >> last quarter. growth is picking up a little bit. i think we'll go to three to 3 1/2%. net effect of this tax cut and

other things that the white house is doing, is going to be boost growth by 1%. one of the reasons that this is important, is that when these, there is these congressional bodies, most people don't even know they exist, joint tax committee, and they score these tax cuts how much they cost, we get 1% growth, we'll get almost $2.7 trillion more in revenue over the next 10 years. and that is why these tax cuts won't end up costing the u.s. economy anything, in fact they will make it a bigger place. and it will have more tax revenue 10 years from now, then we would have if we weren't growing. stuart: at the moment top 20% of income earners pay 90% of all federal taxes in america. if this tax plan goes through, it may be the top 15% of income

earners who pay virtually everything. >> yeah. stuart: i put it to, you brian. that is not healthy. when a small number pays for everything else, not good. >> i totally agree. if i have a complaint where this tax bill is going, it is that our house and senate members are trying to fit it into these budget rules that have been put in place. by the way, all these budget rules we're handcuffing ourselves with, they haven't fixed the deficit. we still have permanent deficits in the united states. so these budget rules have failed. but nonetheless, they're still in place. and they're trying to work within them. that is why we have this pretzel logic where in fact you will make the tax code, you just described it, more progressive. so higher end income earners pay even more. and one of the problems with that is that when you do get to a recession, revenues to the government even fall faster,

which explodes the deficit. you need a broader tax base. by narrowing the tax base, that is my one complaint about this bill. every time we go and we try to do this, we try to appease the political arguments and we try to fit it into these rules and, both of those keep making our tax code more progressive, which is dangerous in the long run. stuart: i just like to see those rules gotten rid of. >> i totally agree. stuart: wouldn't that be good? >> you know, i was the chief economist of the joint economic committee back in 1995 and '96. that is 20 years ago. and we were trying to change the cbo and the joint tax committee back then and have them use more dynamic scoring. get rid of these crazy rules that are in place. and, for 20 years it hasn't happened. i guess you could say am part of the problem. i tried. stuart: it is all your fault, wesbury. >> it is momentum inside of this body that has these crazy rules

that lock in deficits because they really believe that tax cuts hurt the economy and spending helps it. it is crazy, but we that is one of the -- if we could change those rules, we would have a much better tax package than even this one. stuart: brian wesbury, thanks very much indeed. appreciate that. thank you, sir. details of the gop tax plan, suggest we may see higher taxes on wealthy people. not wealthy people. but high income earners. that is the correct word to use here. joining us eric schoenberg, patriotic millionaire, private investor. welcome back to the program. >> good to see you, stuart. stuart: you're a glutton for punishment. >> i am. stuart: you're one the patriotic millionaires, you believe rich people should pay more. you must be pleased at this tax plan, high income earners will pay more especially if they live

in new jersey, new york, connecticut, massachusetts, illinois and california. >> well, it is not true. stuart: yes it is. >> it is not true. i live in new jersey, this will cut my tax bill in half. stuart: wait. no, i do want to hear about that. >> i brought my taxes with me. stuart: i live in new jersey and i want you to tell me how i cut my taxes in half, please. >> bring your tax, sit down what it does. my tax bill will go down in half based on provisions suggested. stuart: how, explain it to me. >> simple. first and foremost, when you reduce tax rate on pass-through entities, that is where wealthy people get income from. i own an s-corporation. i receive a substantial portion of my income through this s-corporation. they will lower the rate on that from basically 40% to 25%. stuart: got it. >> that is 15% tax cut. that is huge amount much money in my pocket. stuart: you're right. >> secondly, it is true they will do away with elimination

for state, local property taxes. however that has to be balanced against people in my situation who don't actually get that benefit because i pay alternative minimum tax. guess what? they're also going to do away with the alternative minimum tax. point out third element. let's recall, what this bill is borrowing another trillion 1/2 dollars to give it to, in tax cuts to wealthy people. stuart: now that is separate argument. separate argument. >> 10% of those benefits, $150 billion is going to the elimination of the estate tax. the estate tax only affects people with more than $5.5 million in assets or $11 million a couple. 10% of the total, 10% of the total benefit from this tax bill is going to wealthiest, not 1% of the population, but .1% of the population. stuart: let's not beat about the bush. >> how much money will save them. it will save president trump billions of dollars in taxes.

it will save gary cohn hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. that one little piece alone. stuart: let's suppose you live in new york city and you earn five million dollars a year. a lot of people in new york who earn five million dollars a year. they, despite, they will city pay the high rate, 39.6%. they don't get cut for that. they have income on the books. still paying 39.6%. they do not get reduction in taxes from state and local income taxes. they don't get that they lose that deduction, wait, they will pay a whole lot more, enormous amount more. >> talk about one specific example. somebody who lives in new york city. donald trump. stuart: no, no. >> let's see his taxes and see what impact -- stuart: wait, if your income is on the books like regular income and work for big corporation in new york city, five million dollars a year you will pay more. i don't care whether trump pays

pay more. i don't care whether gary cohn or not. there are hundreds of thousands of very, very wealthy people, new york city, new jersey, new york state, connecticut, massachusetts, illinois, and california, high-taxed states, those people with high incomes on the books, in those areas will pay more. you should be happy. >> this is claim you're making. and i'm saying prove it. i don't doubt -- stuart: oh, i can prove it. >> some individuals will end up paying tax. bring me somebody with income of five million dollars a year. let's look at their tax return i will bet you, that 95% of those people, if not more, are going to be saving on taxes. stuart: we have someone on the show yesterday. you're not happy? you're not happy. >> i'm not happy at all. stuart: rich which pay more. >> ridiculous. listen to what gary cohn is saying. if this plan did in fact cut taxes on middle class, that is where he focused effort i would have no problem with it. what am i supposed to believe.

i look at my own taxes. it will save me $90,000 a year. stuart: that is excellent. >> how am i supposed to believe this is benefit for middle class? >> we're out of time, leave that tax return with me. i want to see that. >> i'm thinking very hard about how to present this information. stuart: put it right there. right there. on this desk. eric, v. you again soon. thank you, sir. >> thank you. stuart: one year ago a lot of you thought hillary clinton would be elected president. i thought she would be actually. one year later, not the case. instead we have the live action donald trump presidency, taking taxes head on. it is off to asia as of right now, with the country's leading ceos. happy friday, everyone. this is "varney & company."

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stuart: former dnc chair, donna brazile, that the clintons rigged the nomination process against bernie sanders, rigged it that hillary had to win and bernie didn't have a shot. lawrence jones with us, the host of "the blaze"? lawrence, what is with donna brazile? i thought she was friend friend hillary clinton. she instrumental running campaign but now she comes out

with this, the nomination process was rigged. why is she doing this? >> this is something my mom would say, donna brazile spilled all the tea. i don't know if she is capitalist now, but wants to make money off the book deal, this is stuff that has been going on for a long time in the democratic party. donna unfortunately knew about it. in fact she kind of contributed to it, when she leaked the questions to hillary clinton from cnn. stuart: yes. >> and so i'm really confused about this narrative that she wasn't a part of that type of corruption. stuart: seems to me this action by donna brazile, this statement, is going to push, what you might call us the moderate wing of the democratic party further and further to the sidelines. it gives bernie sanders, the left, a lot of ammunition to say, hey, we are the party now. in other words, it contributes to the long term drift of the

party to the left. what do you say, lawrence? >> well, you know, i'm going to push back on this, stuart. i don't think it says that they are the party now. it shows you that although they may have representation, the establishment in the party is still winning. despite all the support bernie had the establishment was able to block him in the election. what we'll see is what the republican went through, the establishment had so much control, you will see a candidate like donald trump within the democratic party. eventually they will get that type of nominee. i think republicans should be afraid of that actually because, you know, the democrats are only going to take this for so long before they find someone like donald trump figure to bring people from the right on to their side. stuart: would you sum it up by saying, the clintons, politically are finished? >> oh, they have been finished

for a while. this is just the cherry on top. i believe right now that this made it very clear that the clintons have no credibility anymore. and you're going to see a lot of speaking fees go down now as a result. you will see a lot of people distance themselves from the clintons as a result of these new developments. stuart: i have to ask you this question. are you used to president trump yet? he has a style and a demeanor which is so different from anything we've seen before? you're in texas. >> yeah. stuart: you look at this going on. what do you think? are we used to him yet? >> you know, i am used to it now. some of it is quite comical for me. there are sometimes as i tell all the time i feel like the president steps on his message. i wish he could be a little more disciplined at times. but when you have people like twitter employees trying to ban the president from twitter, i think it only elevates the power

that he has as commander-in-chief. and so, when you continue to see this type of pushback, i mean, think about this, stuart. a rogue employee on twitter tried to ban the president of the united states from twitter? you don't think that will rally up his base? stuart: yeah, i got you. i think i know where you're coming from, lawrence jones, and i like it. lawrence jones, everyone. he is a good man. see you soon in new york i hope. >> thanks, stuart. real soon. stuart: yes, sir. congress has its marching orders, get taxes done by christmas, oh, thanksgiving would be much better. president trump right now though, heading for a 12-day trip to asia. it is the live action presidency. boy, does it roll on and on. so does our third hour coming up next. >> on and on. stuart: yeah. ♪ and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear advantage.

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stuart: we call it the live action presidency, the trump presidency. he doesn't slow down and he doesn't stop. hard to believe this man is 71 year's old. 24 hours ago he announced the most extensive tax changes in a generation surrounded by republican leaders he presented his middle-class tax cut. just getting his divided party on board is a big win, took a lot of energy on his part. then he introduced his nominee to run the federal reserve, didn't get much publicity but jarome becomes one of the most powerful people, he runs america's money, big deal. after this time to getting rid of diversity visas, the new york terror killer came to america on one of those visas and the president moved very quickly to tackle the issue. now, he's on air force one heading to japan, south korea, china, vietnam and the philippines and he comes back november 149, long trip. in beijing a state banquet.

in south korea close to rocket man. he's taking the whose who among leaders, look what we have this morning, another win, modest at best. okay, it's a modest win but it is a win. this is the live action presidency at work, don't tell the media that this president is on a roll. the third hour of varney & company is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: dead flat market, down 6 points. look, 23,509. the dow hit an all-time high, it did hit a high earlier this morning, 25,550, 23,550 is where we are.

261,000 new jobs created. i'm going to say that's kind of modest, i was hoping for more. joining us now paul conway, former labor department chief of staff. paul, i think that it could have been better, i'm a little disappointed, how about you? >> well, i tell you what, i think your decryption of it being solid moderate report is accurate, when you have taken a look at the numbers, you have to take a look at the trend, it's satisfactory but much more you can do specially if you take a look at lairp force participation, that went down. more people into the labor force. that's why the other issues like tax policy and the budget matter, but i think it's a solid report, stuart, i wasn't overwhelmed by it, i was pleased with some upticks in white-collar jobs and professional services, manufacturing, oil and gas and some of those things which are consistent where the president's policy will go. but i think there's much more that can be done and we have to get the growth rate up. no doubt about it.

stuart: okay, i want to read you part of the statement from the dnc chair that's tom pérez, here is what he said, without passing any significant economic legislation, donald trump is once again taking credit for the strength of the economy he inherited from president obama. go at that one, please. >> well, i tell you what, tom pérez is an interesting character, he's the current head of the democratic national committee and he knows darn well that president obama had an agenda, regulation, strangulation on an economy that was trying to get off the mat and fight. what a bunch of gull that the gentleman has to attack progress in america when people are trying to create jobs and take it back to growth under his administration. stuart: we do have 3% growth in the economy right now, how much of that growth you describe to president trump and his proposals or hangover from president obama? >> here is what i describe it to you actually, i ascribe it to the power of entrepreneur and

corporate executive with a new agenda coming without legislation passed with the anticipation that you can create jobs and not be under the threat of the federal government, president obama, we need to get policies passed. i would give the president a lot of credit for 3%. stuart: if you get this tax plan as is or virtually as is and you pass it this year, how many jobs are we going to be creating next year per month and what kind of growth rate do we get to next year. >> well, i think on the margins you will have arguments about different things. you take a look at the solid in this report, look at the tax plan, what you're trying to empower small business and repatriate corporate business money to come home. you ought to be averaging, 325,000 jobs per month and then in the years that come after that, you should be able to take

it up more. remember, stuart, a huge number of people in the labor force right now that are not fully employed an those people need to have solid jobs, the only way to get that actually is stimulating private sector specially small business but also letting corporation that is have high investment, high cost over time like pharmaceutical companies bring their money back on repatriation and put that to work. stuart: all right, paul, gary cohn just told us that hundreds or billions will be coming back with this tax plan. >> 312 billion, stuart. stuart: that's a lot of money. paul, thank you very much, indeed. >> you bet. stuart: big story of the day in corporate terms, stock terms is apple. the stock has gone straight through the roof with the release of iphone 10. our next guest helped launch steve jobs original mcintosh, she's here to compare jobs versus tim cook. author of get to -- okay.

get to aja. discover your positioning dna. you threw me there with the title. let's go. you're saying that steve jobs was the great dreamer and that tim cook is what just a mechanic, rudies -- are you dismissing tim cook? >> no. there's mothers, mechanics and missionaries and tim cook is definitely a mechanic, he launched a great product but it's not the next big thing. steve jobs was a missionary and he's all about the next big thing. stuart: you can't really have a dreamer or missionary as you call him running a company like this forever. so would you extend your analysis to say mark zuckerberg who was the dreamer who created facebook and is now still the executive of facebook which is

an extremely power organization? >> i think facebook is a great organization and continues to move forward as missionary company but when steve died, the missionariness left apple and tim cook who is a great steward is turning it into a mechanic. stuart: you don't seem to approve of that. [laughter] of course, i love dreamers. amazing time in my life, there are great companies -- stuart: i want to talk about that. if you go back, you were there at the launch of apple mcintosh way back when. what was steve jobs like to work with. i'm told he was just awful, will you confirm that? >> he was very, very challenging, but he was also very pure in his agenda to change the world and so you knew when you were working with him that there was nothing else at play there, it was all about the

next big thing and if he wanted you on the team and you were there to help him, you knew you were helping him change the world and it was a great experience. stuart: were you there with him when he didn't take a shower for a couple of years and lived exclusively on apple? how would that man sorry vief in the corporate world today, i don't think he would, actually? >> steve always had an interesting eating habits so that kind of stuck with him all of his life. [laughter] >> but i think he would survive because he's all about innovation and the next big thing. he would very much survive and i'm very sorry to see that he has passed away but apple is doing great under tim cook's leadership, so they're doing great products and i'm going to get myself an iphone 10. stuart: do you own the stock? i don't know whether you heard me or not, do you own the stock, do you own apple stock? i think the mic is gone. pity. ashley: now i'm on the edge of my seat, i want to know. there's no guaranty.

stuart: i wish the mic hadn't gone out at the moment. i do not own apple stock. my kids told me to buy it when it was $57 a share about 15 years ago and i said, no, it's gone as far as it can possibly go. [laughter] ashley: there goes the inheritance. stuart: no estate tax, 20 million these days. later this hour will be joined by the head of the national association of home builders, now, they are not happy with this tax plan, the ceo of that association jerry howard is with us very shortly. first, though, we are joined by the rnc, i want to know their role in tax reform, the republican party itself. we will get their take on the dnc as well accused by former head of rigging the election for hillary clinton, the nomination that would be. more varney coming right up for you.

stuart: chair of the dnc donna brazile slamming hillary clinton in a new book, she say it is dnc and the clinton campaigned rigged the primaries to keep bernie sanders out. joining us now rnc spokesperson, your reaction to this latest clinton scandal, please. >> it's appalling, you know, both the dnc and rnc have neutrality aproclamations but in the dnc apparently it's not the case, if you're hillary clinton, you're controlling the dnc as she did throughout the election, money being funneled back to her campaign in the dnc, a takedown effort of bernie sanders, it's appalling and every bernie sanders supporter should be

enraged right now. stuart: you seem slightly outraged. i would have thought that you would have been jubilent because it's the end of the clintons? >> i'm enraged for bernie sanders supporters who all throughout the primary i had -- stuart: i know you so well. you've been on the show so many times, you are not outraged at the defeat of a socialist, are you? >> well, no, no, let's be clear. i'm not outraged that bernie sanders the socialist was defeated but outraged that the democratic process doesn't seem to matter to democrats. i had bernie sanders supporters the system was rigged against them, donald trump echoed that and now we know that to be true. i'm enraged on the part of democracy and the democratic process and the way things should work. stuart: okay, i want to talk about the tax plan, you represent the party machinery, the machinery of the republican party, that's who you represent, what is the machinery, the party

itself doing about the tax plan, now that it's before congress? >> well, every morning we meet and the very first question we start with is how can we help the president's agenda, the agenda of the people, so right now we are providing cover for him, we are sending off democratic attacks that this is not for the middle class, it is for the middle class, we are constantly ensuring that reporters around the country are are aware of effects, our job is to make sure that our facts get out there and the president's agenda moves forward. stuart: real tax burden actually shifts to the middle class, i don't know, respond to that, please? >> well, four pinocchio is what the washington poat said about those things, the washington post is not necessarily a friend of the republicans, are they, they rated those claims as false, those are lies, it's not true, this helps middle-class

family. a family making 59,000, for example, take-ohm pay, they'll see savings about $1,082. that's lies coming from schumer and pelosi. stuart: can you tell us right now firmly that, yes, they'll be 51 votes for this package, however, this package is put together in the senate come the voting time? 51 votes? >> my greatest confidence, yes, it will happen, has to happen, relationships have to get behind this, we promised this, has to happen, obamacare repeal and replace didn't but now we have president trump as the tail-win behind this, we are doing the best to help in whatever way ce can. i'm very confident with that. stuart: very confident. thank you very much, we will see you again soon. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: sure thing. two stocks for you, ge as in general electric, that's a roughly 5-year low on the stock, drop below 20 and closed below

20 yesterday. no rebound above 20 so far today, 1993. starbucks, sales fell short but they are going up 3% higher. ashley: they sold tea brand tazo. 384 million bucks for it. they paid 8 million for it. that's good business. stuart: they paid -- ashley: they paid over 8 million, they sold it for 384 million. stuart: that's why the stock is up. that's called a profit. nothing wrong with a profit. [laughter] stuart: you never went broke making a profit. ashley: no. stuart: very soon we will be joined by the ceo of the national association of home builders, they are right in the middle of this thing, they say the tax plan, quote, abandons middle-class taxpayers in favor of wealthy corporations, that's what they say, we are going to joined by the right person at the right time. also we have an accountant with his take on the tax plan, remember, president trump said this would not be for them, what

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to help you keep rolling with confidence. go long™. ♪ stuart: i know that that is paul. what's the name of the song? i don't know. let's move on, please. come on, the dow is up 8 points, even split within winners and losers on the other side of the aisle there. by the way, the dow hit all-time high earlier on this morning around 23,550. that's the new high. ashley: lasted about 3 seconds. stuart: we have gone back on again. come on in lenor hopkins with whom i have a bone to pick. every time you pour cold water in technical terms, you have

been cautious about big tech. if we had taken your advice our viewers would have missed out on a wopping great big rally, what do you have to say to yourself? >> that's a big word, tech, as you might recall one of the companies that we talked about was universal display. stuart: you were cautious on facebook, microsoft, google and amazon. >> yeah, these guys are in some very heavy, heavy pricing. one of the things we did like with apple, we got more bullish because we liked the pullback after last product announcement. the product announcement was decidedly underwhelming. stuart: lenor, would you tell investors and i know you run a lot of good money, would you tell investors buy apple at 172?

>> we just actually put up -- we got bullish on it again back on the 30th of october. stuart: would you tell investors to buy apple at 172? >> yes. stuart: thank you very much. what about amazon, microsoft, alphabet, facebook, the other four of the big five? wait, wait, would you tell our viewers who may hold some of these stocks, some of these four stocks, would you tell them to sell? >> no, i wouldn't sell, but what i would do is you have to have a plan on how to get out. right now the market is in really, really heavy territory. for the most part we are at levels that we've not seen. the only other time was back in 2000. you need to have a plan to get out and you need to know that when you want to get out a lot of people are going to get out at the same time, you need to have a plan in safe to do quickly. stuart: the plan in place is surely a stop loss order.

>> you have to be careful with those stop losses because it can bounce right on through that and you may not want to. you need to have a plan that's a little more than stop losses. stuart: what's the plan? >> that's what we do with our clients. [laughter] stuart: you're not going to tell me? >> well, if you want to pay me. stuart: how about the overall big-time market, a lot of play tinned exes, they play the dow index, do you see it going up? >> right now we are not seeing signs that it's topping out any time soon. it's been incredible movement. momentum is still there, one of the things we will say, the market is getting expensive relatively to other places an investors would be wise to look around the world. in japan, valuations are much more attractive and a lot of tail-wins behind the market but you have to protect yourself from depreciating yen. stocks over in europe that look more attractive. stuart: real fast, i know that

you spent a lot of time with europe with wealthy europeans as your clients and i know that you live in san diego, california, so i have to ask you, is high-income person yourself, how do you feel about this tax plan which is going to make you pay for more on your income in taxes? >> yeah, what really bothers me about the tax plan and discussion going on about it is how to get more revenue from the government and if we look at how much the federal government spends as a percent of gdp it's up where it does not need to be. we were fine back when it was a much smaller amount. all the talks is about more and more spending, not about cutting back that spending and let the economy do what it's going to do. stuart: that was a nice deflection. very good deflection. you did not answer the question about how do you feel about paying more in taxes because you live in california? >> nobody likes to pay more in taxes and one thing that really bothers me about it is to see what they are doing with the interest on student loans.

stuart: no, that's a minor detail. get hold of sacramento, state capital of california and tell them you are sick and tired of paying e numberrous amount of -- >> you mean the people's republic of california. stuart: you could have gotten stre five minutes if you said that in the beginning. lenor hawkins, you're all right. she likes apple. ashley: she does. stuart: joining us now republican from illinois, member of the house and ways committee. i'm tempted to go after the state of illinois because a lot of your constituents, sir, are going to end up paying a whole lot more in taxes because illinois is a high-taxed state and how will you make them -- >> not true. we are protecting the property tax deductions. my constituents are scandalized by the property tax much more so

than other types of taxes so we have maintained the property tax deduction and we've capped it at $10,000 but any tax plan has to be evaluated and its totality, the notion of looking at one element of the tax code and saying that's going to have impact without looking at the rates in child tax credits and pass-throughs, my constituents are going to be paying less in taxes. stuart: okay, okay. not too sure but we will see. >> i'm sure. [laughter] stuart: gary cohn on this program about an hour ago says the plan is not going to be retroactive to january the first, i think you will go along with that, there's no way it could be? >> there's not a plan -- the current thinking is while there's a lot of people like it to do that, it's very difficult to accomplish. there's still voices that are weighing in on it and i think there's a lot under consideration, but it's not in

the current plan. stuart: now, that's not going to happen. how about we are hearing whispers in the senate that maybe top tax rate for corporations would go to 22% not 20%, gary cohn shot that one down as well. you also? >> yeah, it's a nonstarter. part of the bright line that is have come out from the negotiations that was the frame work was 20% corporate rate, no higher, 25% business pass-through rate and no higher and middle-income tax relief. that's the theme that is driving this altogether. so i don't see the corporate rate going above 20. stuart: gary cohn didn't see many changes from the senate because you have narrow window, 1 and a half trillion dollars worth of cuts to deal with, that's it, you can't go beyond that, you have to go to 1 and a half trillion. the plan that we saw yesterday, would you agree with this, is pretty much going to be very, very similar to the plan that eventually emerges from the senate? >> look, it's difficult to predict the senate, let me say

this, the plan that was rolled out yesterday was well received by house republicans by in large, the feedback -- there were comments, suggestions on how to improve it but on balance the feedback was very good. we propose to go to mark-up next week, fully considered by the ways and means committee, all during the week and amendments will be considered and it will be hopefully passed out and then brought up for consideration on the house floor. the senate continues to remain a mountain that is smoky and misty and mysterious to me so i am out of the predicting what happens in the united states senate but we are trying to do is give them a very good plan that they can consider. stuart: we will leave it at that, smoky and misty and whatever else. mysterious. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: yes, sir, i was saying yesterday as we got the details -- see that on the left-hand side of the screen. the president looking at the postcard which some in congress

think you're going to do your taxes on. no big long form with page after page, no, a postcard. that would put out of business, would it not some of the professional tax preparers, yesterday i mentioned h&r block. the stock went down 2%. this morning we have chief officer of jackson he wit, they do a lot of tax preparing. your business is going to get screwed? >> perhaps. 200 provisions of simplification, sure sounds simple. stuart: no, what i'm talking about is the likes of myself and our viewers who have to make out a tax return, if i have a doubling of the standard deduction, i don't itemize, going for the very simple form, you're out of business? >> well that would discount earned income credit, education credit, family flexibility credit and the list goes on and

on, i don't think those will go to the postcard. higher-income taxpayers who get to itemize, they will probably still need to file and i won't go to small self-employed folks. postcard is a lot like the 1040ez today which has been popular. we file several thousand -- stuart: people come to you and make 1040ez form. >> they pay us to find credits, deductions, biggest tax refund they can and in a form like that you might overlook something. stuart: do you give them loans on the basis of tax refund? >> it's gone away for many years, we do advance refund to them at no fee, no interest, no charge on our card but there are no longer loans generally speaking. stuart: you know what your problem is? >> i have many problems. stuart: you know too much.

you know your stuff. >> 30 years in the business, 104 years in taxes. stuart: i was prepare today come with you to say your business is screwed, up the creek man. >> just like '86 which simplified and the tax revenues for all companies jumped 70%, we are hoping for a similar simplification. stuart: seriously, you don't see much of a downturn? >> until our society becomes simple, the price of fairness is complexity. there's no simple way to have a society as diverse as ours and say, we are all going to be the same because they are not the same and in the new bill, you see it treated that way. the congressman was exactly right. you can't look at a cherry-pick item and say you are going to own more, high-income, low-income, moderate-income, seniors, they've all got in it good but something to watch out. until you talk to pro and find out what it means to you, you can't make summary statement. your high income-earners, they

lose interest, property tax, maybe, but they've been paying alternative minimum for years, that's going away. so maybe it will, maybe it won't. moderate and middle-income people, they are the ones to make out in this business. stuart: you have an accent, where are you from? >> alabama. i now live in south florida and live up here in new york. stuart: no income tax in florida. >> state tax but high property values and high mortgages so i'm looking as closely -- stuart: smart guy. thank you. breaking news here we go. bowe bergdahl will avoid prison time, a judge ordered dishonorable discharge in his desertion case. that just came to us. he does not go to prison. next, we are going to be by jerry howard, they don't like the tax plan, they will tell us why. first, stranger things getting millions of viewers in just the

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stuart: president trump now on his way to asia. he'll be in china late next week and he will be joined there by more than two dozen deal makers, among them the ceo's of goldman

sachs, dow chemical and qualcomm. all right, they're all there going at least. now, this, i want to look at the share price of the chip maker broadcommu president trump announced the company will legally relocate headquarters from the u.s. from singapore, apparently the market likes it, up 2% for the stock, $5 higher. now this u one of the groups in opposition to the tax plan, the home builders. joining us now jerry howard, ceo of the national association of home builders. you are very upset with this tax plan, you put out a statement really going against it, what's the big deal, why are you upset? >> well, you to remember we were one of the first groups to come out in favor of the framework for three reasons, we liked what it was going to do for personal income taxes and the way it was going to treat small businesses and we liked the commitment to housing. we think that the plan that was released violates all three. here is why. number one, while many personal taxpayers may be paying less in

taxes, they have to look at their net worth, the houses that they own are going to decline in value, the amount that they are going to pay in rent is going to go up. it's a bait and switch for individual taxpayers. small businesses, we were in favor of them being treated competitively with large corporate competitors, turns out small businesses get a little pat on the head, corporate tax breaks far outstrip any incentives for small businesses, another bait and switch, what really bothers us more the plan aggregates federal commitment to housing. first low-income housing, it eliminates tax-exempt financing, most successful programs to keep rents low. it effectively kill it is housing program which they brag about keeping. on the home ownership side, placing 50 million-dollar cap on mortgage interest deduction, will in effect mean that those houses are there or above will decline in value.

history shows us, stuart, that when one segment of the housing market declines in value, the next segment declines, the next segment declines and pretty soon american who is were hoping that their home values, that the equity they build up will fund retirements are in trouble. this is a bad, bad bill. stuart: you make a good point. that's a pretty good comprehensive case as to why you oppose this, basically you're adding it altogether. it's bad for housing. let me pick you up on this, there's going to be a now a limit on the mortgage interest deduction, you can deduct the interest only up to $50 million worth of mortgages, however, jerry, old mortgages are grandfathered in, so if you got a mortgage now and it's up to value, a million dollars, you still deduct all of the interests, right? >> so home sales then, they are about 7 million homes right now on the market that are above that cap, those homeowners, many of whom were counting on the equity for retirement, can't sell because their buyers are

going to be capped in mortgage deductions. stuart: you think it'll be that bad? i mean, the response to capping of the mortgage interest rate deduction, half a million dollars, you think the profound effect will be so bad that it will actually lower the price, lower the value of expensive homes? >> not only expensive homes, once one segment of the market starts to decline, history shows us they all do. we think it's so bad, stuart, we are worried about another housing recession. stuart: what are you going to do about it? >> well u we hope that there are enough responsible members in the house that they won't turn the people's house into corporate headquarters and we are banking on that to try and work with them to make changes to this bill before it gets to the president's desk. stuart: what kind of shot do you think you have at doing that because it's a very narrow tight window that they are dealing with here to get it done this year or to get it done with say, 51 votes in the senate, you have to conform to that 1 and a half trillion dollars maximum tax deduction -- tax break, over the

next ten years, there isn't much room, is there, for loosening up the deal on housing? >> there is a room as long as there are members who are responsible and i know that you've heard as we have several members of the republican conference are saying, we've got to make changes to this bill, we are going to work with them. just as importantly the senate is in play, the senate has always been the body which slows down bad legislation, we are going to work with the senate so they can pass good legislation. stuart: all right, jerry howard, thank you very much for being was. i think you layed out a pretty comprehensive case, that was very interesting. how about this from sears -- ♪ ♪ ♪ stuart: organ music. announcing it's closing, going to close 63 additional kmart and sears locations in january of this next year. this is on top of the more than 350 stores it has already closed this year. things are getting worse for

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stuart: yes, earlier we told you about cbs rebootingbooting the twitlight zone and i misspoke. yes, i did. i totally admit it. i said that robert sterling began the original series, serling no t, some people very quick to point out mistake in social media. ashley: don't get away with anything, stuart. [laughter] stuart: president trump's twitter account down last night and he tweeted about it this morning. here he said this, my twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. i guess the word must finally be getting out and having impact. ashley: happened just before 7:00 o'clock in the east coast when you went to his page, if

you we wanted to look up donald trump during 11-minute period said this page is not available, doesn't exist, for 41 million followers is a bit alarming. we don't know whether this was an employee who has gotten fired or whether there was the word disgruntle, an employee that was leaving that day inadvertently deleted the account. what kind of protections do they have at twitter to protect the president of the united states or anyone else who is a high-functioning, somebody that can have political influence around the world? what kind of safeguards are in place? stuart: that's a good question. that's a good point, young man. very good point. 11-minute lack of twitter, he's made up for it today. all over the place. ashley: slowed him down a bit. stuart: you would be surprise to know that this show is not yet over. more varney after this.

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stuart: i have a minute left. i want to talk about apple. would you look at that. that is a high for the stock. $172 a share. pat that press, let me fiddle around with this, a the that price, apple is worth $892 billion. earlier, apple hit 174. ashley: close it. stuart: up to $900 billion. 174.26 was the high. that is the point where it hit $900 billion. ashley: how much cash do they have? stuart: shall i tell you? ashley: please. stuart: $268.9 billion. that is in cash, held by apple. ashley: how many countries in

europe could you buy with that? stuart: more than most companies and many governments in this world. what you're looking at apple store. is that the line waiting to get in? they got in and bought out the store. in three seconds neil cavuto will take it over. stuart: thank you very much. we have a lot of jaws dropping in the military community, that bowe bergdahl who pled guilty to desertion will not get prison but more appropriately, dis dishonorable discharge a military judge finding that he indeed deserted. bergdahl never denied that. they asserted that he suffered from mental anguish when he abandoned his post. some injured and killed in the rescue efforts for him. that is not going