huge. >> i think the gucci shoes all delivered with drone. lee: there you you. ashley: stuart, by the way back to tomorrow but here is the big story for you, president trump taking iconic american company, boycott to harley davidson would be great, these are all about tariffs and harley planning to move overseas, is the president picking winners and losers here? elon musk will face tough questions in board meeting today, fallout continue from musk declaring to take company private, we will go into that. as for overall market, futures off lows from the morning, the lira, however, continues to hit fresh lows. we've got 3 hours to cover it,

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broken man, they believe it was a suicidal mission. he flew out of seattle and crashed on island. he had full security clearance, ashley, he took out without permission, no other passengers or crews on board. a plane owned by alaska air group. the question is how did he get into the plen and fly -- plane and fly it. his family said he didn't intend to harm anyone. still nafghting strange incident. ashley: take a quick look at stock futures for you, another day where we fret about what's going on, the lira, the s&p flatten, the nasdaq just a hair higher, steadier she goes. stay on your money, keith fitzgerald, keith, we have turkey, is this a big deal for

us, certainly the market seems to think so on friday? >> it's not a big deal yet, ash, the reason is everybody is counting on eu banks to bail them out once and for all. the exposure is spanish and greek banks, why we are holding steady today because it would be like montana going out of business. ashley: earning season, strong, no doubt, we had wal-mart, home depot and cisco systems, so far on the money with big tech, do you like any of these ahead of the earnings? >> i tell you what wal-mart is going to be a problem because they are putting everything they can to go after amazon and home depot, a lot of do it yourself buying stuff. cisco intrigues me, makes

transformation system to hardware to software. ashley: we are headline driven now, would you agree? >> absolutely, ash. that makes it dangerous. the success of investing don't do rash moves. ashley: very good, keith, stay right there, we will be back with you at 9:30 as the market opens, but now let's take a look at shares of harley davidson, president trump going after them in a tweet, quote, many harley davidson owners plan to boycott the companies, great, most other companies are coming in our direction including harley competitors, really bad move. u.s. will soon have a playing -- level playing field or better, interesting isn't it? joining us now author of borrowed time, two centuries of booms, busts and bellouts, that's quite a title. james freeman with the wall

street editorial board, looks like the president has been criticized from those in the financial world for picking winners and losers, is that a valid criticism, james. >> for picking harley in this case and should be criticized because they have basically been getting hit both ways, when tariffs go up on aluminum and steel they pay for raw materials and retaliatory fees overseas they have to bear that brunt. this is a situation where the president ought to be defending them. the reason often they manufacture overseas because there are heavy tariffs over there and make it uneconomic call to explore it. that's a problem he's trying to fix but he's picking the wrong target here. ashley: now this one, boston globe enlisting a 100 newspapers. james, your reaction to that? >> yeah, i -- this is probably -- i don't know if this is news

that many newspaper editorial boards don't like the president, i think part of the problem here is they are testing his rhetoric as an attack of first amendment, it is not. the first amendment say it is government can't limit freedom of speech, it doesn't say the government will never criticize you, it doesn't say the president can't attack fake news if he believes it's fake news. ashley: he says fake news is the enemy of the people. that's the distinction. >> they're saying he's calling all press the enemy of the people, he says fake news is the enemy. people disagree on what fake news is, but it's just odd to me that the point of a newspaper, i thought, editorial board is to exercise independent judgment so the idea that a newspaper would follow another newspapers, today is the day you must say x, y or z seems ridiculous. ashley: real quirks i want to

mention a group, the story neither citi nor washington once told. >> failure of regulation when citi was a private bank, thrived and it was strong and century since then a series of crises, neither the fed or other regulators nor the bank is welcoming the story. ashley: very interesting, james, thank you. switching gears now to tesla. that was ironic but switching gears to tesla. [laughter] ashley: we have breaking news, what's going on, susan? >> we are talking about the saudi arabian fund given that elon musk said he has funding secured, headlines regarding saudi arabia, elon musk saying the saudis have approached him multiple times ability taking tesla private and he says on august the second he notified tesla board that in personal capacity he we wanted to take

tesla private at 425 per share, in the bloomberg report over the weekend that saudi arabia was part of the group looking to take and provide the funding that $720 billion that elon musk needs to take but then we also have class-action filed by two shareholders and they are alleging that elon musk made false statements, false information in order to squeeze the short sellers. ashley: right. >> but we have lawyers and law experts say that elon musk needs to prove he sought funding and that makes it the statement actually true. ashley: so emac, what he's saying is we have been discussion with the saudis to susan's point for multiple years which kind of backs his argument. liz: we thought musk will go radio silent, secured funding, past tense, meaning that he had

it in its pocket or he tells his pocket, this is a tough call, i mean, what's going on right now we lon musk back-filling what he tweeted. ashley: you think he jump the gun on this one, james, is he in trouble with regulators? >> most people took the tweet with secure funding to mean the funding was secured, so if it's discussions and possibilities maybe leading to something that could be problematic. one thing it does answer if it's the kingdom of saudi arabia, those are pockets deep enough to afford the 70 billion. ashley: they can afford it. but the law, susan, you announce something that wasn't strictly true. >> also personal. he says basically musk was exacting personal revenge and squeezing out short sellers, given that tesla -- ashley: can he send pairs of shores to

david. >> yeah, boxer shorts. [laughter] >> saudi arabia part of a group they say to provide funding for this buyout, softbank of japan is not interested. ashley: we will see how it plays out. >> up and down. ashley: susan, thank you. check this out, rocket on historic mission to touch the sun, the parker solar probe that blasted from cape canaveral this weekend and explore the sun the next 7 years, that's going to be hot. trump administration to reform the dangered species act and guests that say a way to save endangered species is eat them. >> no. ashley: yes, i kid you not. president trump going after turkey doubling steel and and aluminum tariffs. the steel guy says the president's tough policies are actually a win, we will be right

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ashley: take a look at netflix, company cfo david wells was stepping down, netflix says wells plans to stay on till successor is found. wall street journal reporting that uber drivers are taking riders the long way route. liz: they have drivers on record to say that. you know that you're getting into when you sign up for uber, go get another job, drive for amazon. [laughter] liz: consumer doesn't get hit, uber gets hit. the passenger gets a flat fee, they do what's calling long hauling and basically overcharge uber and lyft for the time driven and the miles driven, they stick it to uber and lyft

that way. ashley: you've had that? >> aren't we taking the long way, it's rush hour. there's traffic. doesn't it hurt the driver, doesn't that take away your time from picking up another passenger, another fair. ashley: bizarre, we will talk about it more in a minute. to trade president trump said he would double steel and aluminum tariff in turkey, remember this is in response for turkey's refusal to release american pastor. fgm, that's the name of his company, joe, welcome back by the way, you are here a lot because so much is being done with regards to tariffs on steel and everything and you're in that business so it directly impacts you. >> yes, it does. ashley: tariffs on turkey, i read fascinating fact, i don't know if anyone else finds

fascinating, all that comes from the country comes from turkey, who would have think? you could have thought it was canada. so joking aside, that means the cost will go up substantially, right? >> yes and no, we all know who the beneficiaries are of this particular aspect is u.s. mills. ashley: people will go to the american manufacturer because they can get it cheaper because of the turkish theoretically? >> redirected to go to u.s. mills. ashley: we know your prices have gone up, you're a big part of sky scrapers in new york city and elsewhere, you're paying for more steel, those prices get passed on i would assume to others do i end up paying more? >> at the end user and buyer of residential users? ashley: am i going to pay for because it cost more to build?

>> i hardly doubt that based on the market these days, i don't think so, as far as the owner that's actually developing on i think it will be passed onto him or the actual vendor like myself. ashley: are they really good? they are all punishment, cutting off the nose despite the face with regard to us in the united states? >> it's tough, it's a tough assessment because it has brought up our industry, thousand percent, we are increasing contracts, increasing -- i've been buying equipment, you name it. on my side of the fence, it's been wonderful but you have and i've been saying this before, you the mom and pop operations, smaller operations that can't support that bandwidth, so let's just say they are buying it one at a time, some pieces at a time given -- ashley: exposing them. is it a good policy?

>> i think overall, yes. ashley: it's worth short-term pain in your mind? >> it's worth short-term pain, yes. that's my thing when does this end and subside so that we know there's no escalation of pricing? ashley: how is business for you? >> thank god so well. ashley: manufacturing costs cose not impacted you yet? >> not yet because we've had great clients and people have been able to absorb these costs. ashley: can we hedge a bit and buy further out so you can offset prices down the road? [laughter] ashley: did i ask a bad question. >> interesting question because steel is differently, compromised of different sizes and pieces. ashley: okay. >> how can you buy -- ashley: if we are talking about steel as a product, it doesn't matter what size it is, right? >> in our world it does. in our world it does. ashley: the big ter piece the bigger tariff you pay. >> the bigger the piece the

harder density, the bigger all becomes much more -- ashley: bigger the flench. you lost me. all right, joe, thanks very much, appreciate it. nancy pelosi, she has a new target, accusing the media of undermining her chances of becoming speaker of the house again, you're not going to believe this one, dnc cochair facing accusations of emotional and physical abuse from mexico girlfriend, here how the congressman is responding to those accusations.

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ashley: i want to get back to, this some breaking news on tesla this morning, elon musk says the saudi sovereign wells fund reached out and said he wanted to take company private, whether you believe that or not or whatever is certainly impacting the stock, tesla up 10 bucks at 366. the question is with us it secured? president trump met with apple chief tim cook on friday, what was all that about? >> at trump national golf course in bedford, new jersey. photo from first lady melania's

instagram along with president donald trump, tim cook has been talking about tariffs obviously, very scant details about what they discussed over dinner, it's highly likely speculating that tariffs are a big part of the conversation given that apple sells in china and the u.s. and president trump touted multiple times in speeches that apple is bringing back jobs to the u.s., spending $250 billion, creating tens of thousands of jobs here in the united states, but, you know, apple watches willing caught up in tariff dispute. up 10% starting in august. ashley: yeah, interesting susan, thanks, now story democrat congressman keith ellison denying allegations of abuse of a former girlfriend, do we care about this emac, interesting story? >> started with austin, the son of keith ellison's ex-girlfriend karen, broke up in 2016, austin

put up facebook post, he said in 2017 he discovered a file with over 100 texts and twitters between karen, his mother and keith ellison. he claims there was a video two minutes long of keith ellison physically abusing karen, tweeted out, you know you did this to me, the question is about video and timing of this. it's coming within days of keith ellison's primary to be attorney general of minnesota, it's physical and emotional, the allegations keith ellison denying it. ashley: have we seen the video yet? liz: is son says there is a video. ashley: thank you very much, we are now less than 5 minutes till the opening stock market on monday morning, the futures say, we are holding, the dow up 6 points, the s&p flat and nasdaq also flat, we will see where we go when the bell rings, we will

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ashley: we are about 30 seconds away from opening bell, could this be another day where we discuss ins and out about the turkish lira, turkey defaulting

on debt. headline driven market as we are in the middle of summer, no doubt. interesting what happens today with more talk about turkey. we will begin the day pretty much flat, slightly higher on nasdaq but overall wait and see kind of market. here with down, 196, here we go, more stocks in green than the red for sure, the dow up 25,329, a gain of 18 points. let's take a look at s&p if we can. there we go. pretty much what the futures told us, s&p slightly higher, tenth of a percent. big tech, 17,848 on the nasdaq. kind of a wait and see, we are getting this week started. now, let's take a look at tesla, lots of headlines this morning, shares up, let me see, up 3 bucks, is that right? we were up almost 10 bucks, 359

on tesla, lost some of the mojo and premarket trading, the shares up more than 19%, more on tesla in just a few minutes. who joins us on the happy, happy monday morning. liz mcdonald is here, susan li, keith fitzgerald out in seattle and james freeman in the studio. we are almost done with earning seasons, 79% have beaten estimates. keith, strong earning season has been pushing stocks higher, we get that, can the rally continue when the earnings wrap up, what else will push us higher in other words? >> i think it can be because there's still a lot of capital on the shrines, -- sidelines but the raw amount of asset that is have missed out in latest run, technically sign of another bull

run. we certainly ran the energy out. ashley: lots of big retail earnings, macy's, wal-mart, home depot, jc penny and nordstrom. any names stick out for you? >> i think across sector is about the consumer. we are going get more news this week on consumer confidence but i think all the indications are yeah have happy consumers, wages have been rising, inflation a little higher than they'd like so that might be -- ashley: some take issue with wages rising, hasn't been exactly booming, have they? >> not booming. the fact that it's such a tight labor market gives people confidence that they'll keep rising, as people come off the sidelines as businesses have to raise wages to attract employees. >> i think wal-mart will be very interesting, $300 billion of retail sales every year, big

chunk of the retail market, so it will show how confident consumers are. that's right. up 30%, in fact, that's the rate that we are going at a. if they go anywhere below that, that would be disappoint. ashley: we will see. let's take a look at tesla, the board is meeting today, what's the latest on that? >> we got the latest headlines about saudi arabia and in blog post elon musk said he's having discussions with the saudi arabian and talking to him about taking tesla private. he's looking to take tesla private at $420. that's a process taking the company private with the tweet last week, people are saying are you not due process of how a company private works, you notify the board, the board votes on it, they think about it and take it to shareholders for

vote and regulatory for approval and that's how you take the company private, he says he's taking due process here. ashley: someone who is brilliant but mind bounces off the walls with all different directions and this is another example of that, james. >> tweet accelerated lately. i don't know what that tells us about him. i think it's going to be interesting here, markets seem to like the saudi story but if there doesn't end up being a close somewhere to 420 that he forecasted in tweet -- ashley: picked up out of the air. liz: markets don't believe 420. ashley: 361. >> no company has that's has experience such good graces from the long-term investors than tesla. i mean, it's only twice in quarter -- has met quarterly profits, i think the board asked him to recuse himself from the meeting that's coming up.

ashley: keith, you're out in trendy, liberal progressive seattle, do you drive out in tesla? >> i do not own a tesla, i considered getting one. i would like to stick up to prius. ashley: what do you think of tesla? is elon musk, you know, a lot of -- to liz's point a lot built on faith, right, he's the man who can do all of this but yet to really come through and his projections get pushed back further and further and he's a bit chaotic. >> i think emac is spot on. i don't like him as ceo, i don't know thousand put that into words, the degree to which he's tweeting demonstrates that perhaps he's losing grip, maybe public company fatigue, i don't know, i suspect he's got funding somewhere from unlikely consortium.

i also think we will see lawsuits because that's the american way when you have no -- ashley: we have two filed. >> in san francisco. ashley: we know he has thin skin, he's a bit like the president like that, when you kind of say something not so kind he will tweet right back at you. quick check on the big board now, stocks appear at least are going to be shrugging turkey issue. holding its own, we shall say. look at shares of drug maker bayer, monsanto to pay $289 million for not warning of cancer risks of weed killer including the popular round-up, this morning down 3%, down nearly 3 bucks. let's take a look at shares of harley davidson, president trump going after them in a tweet, many harley davidson to boycott,

great, many companies are coming in our direction, a really bad move, u.s. will soon have a level playing field or better. it looks like the president is picking winners here. i asked james, here, is it dangerous ground? liz: it is dangerous ground, harley is having a hard go of it, the tariffs they've estimated will equal almost 40% of quarterly profits. so, you know, the second biggest consumer is in the eu, they need to survive and harley hires employees a lot of workers in this country. you don't want to start sounding like erdogan like turkey, don't go to banks to get dollars, you know, this is a free market, leave -- i would say harley needs to do what it needs to do to survive. >> it's not make america erdogan again. [laughter] ashley: harley has shareholders to answer to, is the president

picking winners and losers? >> i think the president should be criticized for doing this. you look at john deere, caterpillar and lots of other companies, apple, they have various branches overseas. they are getting their you know what kicks by polaris which is producing better motorcycle, i'm a die-hard motorcycle when i'm not driving my prius and are very important to manufacturing and quality and customers. ashley: yeah. >> says in the president's tweet that manufacturing is coming back here, investment is coming back here, that's what we are seeing, the tax cut is working on, you don't need to pick on companies. ashley: poor oh, harley. let's look at spotify, they with actually skip ads to better personalize the experience. are they going to make money if no one listens to the ads? what do you think, susan? >> spotify is doing interesting things because they were in

brooklyn last week tieing up with samsung create more of an experience at home but i completely agree with you, they don't charge for ads, how do they make money? , yeah, how do you pay your artists because they want to be paid. ashley: yeah, they should be. >> tens of millions of people to sign up for paid option, the ad-supported option is a lot bigger, i use the ad-supported action and works pretty well, i guess, in our business we obviously like subscription revenue, in their business -- [laughter] >> it really helps. so in their business maybe it can work better with mostly ad supported, i don't know. ashley: we will see, interesting concept. >> maybe the companies pay up for it, you want to tie up with spotify you pay them. ashley: all right, let's get back to turkey if we can, looks like the president is moving the market with his sanctions. okay, we go off to erdogan, we

want christian pastor back, all getting catchy isn't it with turkey, what do you think keith fitzgerald good strategy or not? >> you know, it's debatable, i think this could come back to bite him, i don't like the fact that he's taking side, let the free market sort this stuff out. with turkey they made a bet they will expand economy, running 3 times inflation rate, the central bank wants and denominated all their debt in dollars, that's what's real risk here. ashley: you know, james, i'm always nervous because it's a muslim democracy which is an oxymoron. >> ten years ago the financial crisis, how do you deal with it? much of this is easily solved. let go brunson go and you have

better relations with the u.s. ash tash boom, -- ashley: boom, done. we will see. >> i think it's an easy call here. i hope he takes it. ashley: give him a call. james, thank you very much, keith out in seattle, thank you very much, appreciate your time on this monday morning. >> thank, ash. ashley: quick check at the big board, it's all very tepid. let's look at video, came to a halt when brawl broke out, the fight started when jets player delivered late hit, quote, if they want to be boxers and wrestlers they probably will,

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ashley: we begin the new trading week, let's take a look at big board for you, the dow up 23 points, 25,336, apparently the jitters over turkey that saw the market take a dive last week at the end of friday because of fears of the lira default in turkey and so on, apparently the fears are on hold at least. let's take a look at amazon a

lesma still the queen of smart speaker market, gerri willis what's going on? >> that's right, the first and means they are doing well, indeed, commanding 70% of the smart speaker market, that's amazon, they were first in and they are making a very big splash here, google owns 24% of the market, apple 6%, every day you're hearing about another company getting into the business, just last week samsung will have something called galaxy home with their own smartphone speaker. you remember last week we talked about amazon nobody uses alexa to order goods anymore just 2% but let me tell you they are hopeful that this market will continue to expand and to get bigger, one other note here from the same study, apparently alexa's popular divide but doesn't answer the questions very well, only 61% of questions put to alexa are answered correctly. back to you. ashley: maybe that explains if i want to buy something and get

the wrong thing, gerri, thank you very much, interesting. a jung approved the settlement between irs and hundreds of tea party groups in which the irs reported agreed to pay out 3 and a half million bucks, guess what, the lawyers got half of that, joining us rover norquist. is this a satisfying conclusion to the whole mess? >> obviously not. shortly after the obama administration came into power they did massive trillion dollar stimulus spending and then they said we will take over health care, obamacare and massive taxes on energy an demonstrations in the streets in april, maybe a million people demonstrated in about a thousand rallies across the country. in the next 3 years one of the hundreds of groups, tea party groups that we like to incorporate so that we can get a bank account and have an organization here, one got the

irs approval to incorporate nonprofit status, this was an effort not by the russians to spend $100,000 on facebook, but by the united states government, the irs to smother and it was huge and affected all elections since then. ashley: a lot of galling factors that the irs admits no wrongdoing, off of the settlement money 50% goes to lawyers, each individual group that were targeted gets about $17,000 each, and then we get this from the irs, well, we have made changes so political targeting can't happen again, do you buy that? >> no, i was on the commission to look at the irs back in the 90's and back then under clinton i was talking to my

left-wing friends. i said, are you guys getting audited because heritage, all the conservative groups were being audited by the obama irs and none of the liberal groups were and when i asked question, oh, no, we have the wonderful system to make sure it's terribly nonpartisan, great, we would love to see, oh, no, it's secret you have to trust us. >> when everyone says that the first thing you do is not trust them. also lerner pled the fifth, called hero in the investigation from trying to stop the practice, give me a break. >> nonsense. this was a deliberate effort -- she was in and out of the irs, why does the head of the irs need to be in and out of the

white house dozens of time. the communication, collusion between the white house and the irs was constant and -- and showed up in behavior, there was no -- also the irs remember would take the list that you can contribute to naacp privately because back in 50's the court ruled bad people were trying to get to the national association, ncaap to go after donors and they said those are secret, they are legally secret so you don't harass donors. ashley: we will have to leave it there grover. i'm sorry, it is very unsatisfying, i guess you can put it to rest for now but horrible dark mark in history what that episode was. grover rhenquist we appreciate it. the market is been up 20 minutes

for now, the dow up 57 points, gaining a little bit of momentum, 25,369. coming up next, we have a guest that says he knows thousand save endangered species. he will take a cue from what the american bison, he started eating them. we will explain after this.

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ashley: okay, look at this opinion headline for the washington times, eat endangered species that will get your attention, richard, global economic growth, richard, welcome to you. you say the best way to save endangered species is to put them on the menu, explain, if you can. >> have you ever noticed we have no shortage of chickens and cows and other animals that are privately owned and people eat them or use them in other possible ways and we could do the same thing with many of the endangered species, obviously not all are suitable for eating but if we gave people incentives, farmers incentives to raise them you reduce a lot of conflict between land owners and the environmentalists. there are market solutions to most of endangered species

problem. ashley: that's interesting, you quote, you cite the case of the dusky frog that was found in some park, some land somewhere the land owner can't do anything with it because that dusky frog becomes protected, it's endangered and nothing can be done other than protecting its habitat. what would you do in a situation like that because i don't know what they taste like? >> well, you wouldn't eat them. i don't think most people would. ashley: okay. >> but what you could do is say to farmers and others, we will would like you to raise whatever number of dusky gofer frogs are need today make sure they are going to survive and then the government would pay the people like they pay farmers for producing these animals. ashley: right. >> let me give you concrete example. ashley: all right. >> the sea turtle is unnecessarily endangered by the

environmentalist of all people. back in 1950's, anthony fisher from the uk started turtle farm, he had great experience in raising chickens and other crops and his idea was to raise sea turtles in a way he raised chickens, have a certain number, maybe 20% at age 5, release back in the seat because 1% of sea turtles ever get to the maturity. ashley: survival. >> yeah, and so this way by raising turtles and turtle meat is very good, the shells are valuable, you could have large turtle crops. ashley: it's an interesting concept. richard, we are coming to hard break. you're assuming they'll be a demand on whatever animal is protected, interesting concept, thank you very much, more varney

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ashley: coming up to 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. on the west. good morning to you, i'm ashley webster. in for stuart varney. don't worry, he will be back tomorrow. i promise. we have a packed show for you. people illegally crossing the u.s. border. you thought i was going to say mexico. from canada. up 140% from last year. according to new report. border patrol agents say it is impossible to secure the 5500 long mile stretch of the border. we'll talk to the head of the border patrol union later this hour. president trump going against harley-davidson, he said a boycott would be great. is it really republican to choose winners and losers in business? that is what we're questioning. house minority leader

nancy pelosi is saying nbc is going after her. "fortnite," the videogame played by 125 million people around the world. expected to generate $2 billion. guess what, parents are hiring teachers for their kids. we will talk to a professional famer. gamer. hour two of varney, coming your way. ♪ ashley: we'll get you to this. president trump tweeting about omarosa. here it is. wacky omarosa who got fired three times on "the apprentice" never made it never will. she begged me for a job. tears in our eyes. i said okay. people in the white house hated her. she was vicious but not smart. i would rarely see her, but heard very bad things. nasty to people. would constantly miss meetings. general kelly told me she was a

loser, nothing but problems. i told her to try working it out if possible, she only shade great things about me until she got fired. we know where the president stands on omarosa. more coming up. checking the big board, the dow trying to get momentum on the upside. we're up 43 points on the dow. 25,000, 356. maybe the turkish thing abate ad little it about. big tech names we check every day. amazon hitting all-time high. we say it every day, amazon up at 1918. 2%, would you. check this out. netflix cfo, david wells, will step down. netflix says wells plans to stay on until a successor is on to insure that infamous smooth transition. netflix down a buck. tesla board meeting today. elon musk confirming reports that a saudi fund talking about

taking the company private. talks are still continuing. let's not forget about oil. never forget about oil. now at 66, almost $67 for sweet texas crude oil. now to politics, hughes minority leader nancy pelosi is criticizing the nbc ahead of the midterms elections. listen what she said. >> i know nbc has been on a jag, this is one of their priorities to undermine my prospects as speaker, putting that aside, i have noted is for one person for a investment i haven't asked a candidate or incumbent for a vote. what is important, i know better than anybody, how important it is for to us win this election. ashley: rotten, mean, nbc. joining us brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to george w. bush. practiced, welcome. okay, nancy pelosi quoting nbc because nbc said it has spoken to a number of democratic candidates, over 50 of them, 50 or more oppose nancy pelosi as house speaker if the democrats take back the house t seems to

me that she is shooting the messenger. >> absolutely. is it pelosi nbc is fake news? one thing for sure, nbc is weighing in because they don't want pelosi as part of their party leadership. their partisan group masquerading as a legitimate news service. while nancy pelosi may not have asked anybody for a vote technically. she is doling out money to candidates. this is the leverage she hands out to candidates. this is the leverage by being beholden to her. what she doesn't understand, nancy pelosi is long passed nancy pelosi. she is not a socialist democrat. that is where the party is going. ashley: she has been leader since 2003. she is queen of fund-raising. how much weights does that hold for the party? >> it hold as lot of weight but history may be against republicans in midterms, democrats are defending many more seats than republicans. that cost a lot of money.

it is incumbent for democrats to raise money to wage effective campaigns t will be tough a lot of media markets are very expensive. ashley: they are. next one for you, brad, dnc co-chair, congressman keith ellison denying allegations that he abused an ex-girlfriend. what is your take on this story? >> i will not be like a democrat. i will give the chairman the benefit of the doubt. everybody is entitled to a presumption but one thing for sure democrats need to get ahead of this. it should be open and transparent, the investigation. and then let the chips fall where they may. this is serious allegation. i will not be like democrats and condemn him before the trial. i think that this calls for investigation and democrats should do it so the american people can see it. ashley: is the democrat party torn right now between the ocasio-cortez group, the democrat socialist, who is long on idealism but pretty short on

facts? is there that group against the moderate democrats you? kind of mentioned that you believe the democrat party is leaving nancy pelosi behind because she is not as far left as some would like? >> if you can believe that. ashley: i -- >> nobody could fathom that, when she was speaker but the party is being hijacked e they have a real identity crisis. will they identify themselves on election day as socialist democrats who believe there should be minimum guaranteed wage for every american? everything should be free, including college tuition? this isn't the america i know. i believe this isn't the america that democrats know or want. ashley: question, very quickly, brad, i'm out of time, but who would succeed nancy pelosi? to me there is no natural successor crying out. >> i think you will see a real battle royale if the democrats would take the house, who would lead the party. by that person, you would know where the party's going. ashley: exactly. brad blakeman, great stuff as

always, thank you very much. >> pleasure. ashley: apple hitting all-time high by the way, up two bucks at 209. that is apple and amazon continuing to go up, up and away. market value, 1,012,000,000,000. what is zero among friends. market highs despite concerns about up 40 points on the dow. you're looking at a fund focuses on turkey. that is why we're showing it to you. it is down 9%. market watcher jeff sica is here, is this another blip or a real cause of concern here? >> this proves the market has the attention span after house fly. the fact that the market is up today, is somewhat surprising. this is not a vote of confidence for turkey and i believe the insane dictator that runs turkey are in deep, deep trouble.

what this is, this is the opinion of investors that the problem in turkey will be confined to turkey and it is not going to affect -- ashley: maybe european banks. >> well, yeah, the european banks are the major concern. ashley: right. >> i've been saying it for white a while, first of all you have a very fragile banking system in europe that really doesn't need a major default. you have countries like spain, france, italy, that have $100 billion minimal exposure to turkish debt. not only do they have exposure to turkish debt, they have done nothing to protect themselves from the declining lira. ashley: this story could still blow up on us? >> i think what's happening now you have a momentum-driven market and when it comes back into the headlines i think you will see more concerns but really where the concerns are going to come out of, if you see, france, spain or italy come out saying they have a problem here. ashley: right. >> if that happens then we'll see another leg down. susan: turkey is only 1 1/2% of

global gdp. very, tiny, small of portion. ashley: it is a bit of a house of cards, but you're right, susan. retailers report, home depot tomorrow, walmart. are you optimistic, jeff sica, even though stu likes to say you pour cold water on everything. here is your chance. susan: on a monday. >> i played up the decline of brick-and-mortar retailers for quite a while, but i think a lot of that decline is going to subside. i think companies like walmart and home depot, which walmart going into the online grocery business with jet and what they have been able to accomplish, i think they're making progress. they're not going to make great progress against amazon. ashley: you're mildly optimistic? >> i'm mildly optimistic. home depot had a very tough first quarter, they blamed it on the weather, but what i see with

home depot is as much amazon proof as most any other brick-and-mortar retailer. ashley: there is room under the tent for amazon to dominate and other people to thrive? >> i think for the factual mart and home depot have squarely taken on amazon has proven successful strategy. they're not going to beat amazon. they're not coming even close to amazon, but they need to get their piece of the pie. if they get their piece of the pie, they can keep growing as a brick-and-mortar. ashley: tepidly optimistic. we'll take it from jeff seek is a. >> stuart is not here. ashley: we'll tell him about it. nasa probe parker, why do they call it parker? blasting off -- to reach the sun. can't be landing on it. parker will with stand temperatures of 2500 degrees fahrenheit. liz: wow. ashley: that is hot. like summer in europe.

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ashley: take a quick look at the big board for you as we kick off a new trading week. the dow up 43 points. not bad after the selloff on friday with fears what was going on in turkey. there you go, the dow hanging tough, 25,357 on the dow. harley-davidson, a lot of talk and criticism on harley as it looks to move manufacturing

overseas. it is down a buck. drugmaker california jury ordered newly acquired monsanto unit to pay $289 million for not warning of cancer risks of the weed killer, roundup. that caught a lot of people's attention. a lot of people have roundup at home. "fortnite," what a popular game this is. parents are getting tutors to for their kids to improve play. christopher lloyd, a former pro gamer, who i believe gone now being in the world of an agent. chris, welcome to you. so many questions, so little time. how do you take someone who is "fortnite" player and make them a star? how do you do that? >> well, thanks for having me. great to be here. "fortnite" esports exploding. e esports are hottest new trend.

to answer your question in short, one of the easy ways to partner the player up with a coach. nothing replaces long hours of grinding. the fact remains, if you're in your backyard shooting up hoops, that is very beneficial but you know, you put that kid with phil jackson and he will have better form, he will have better mechanics. that will ultimately help him take the game to the next level. on the agency level -- ashley: sorry to interrupt there, there are certain athletes have the skills to become a professional but can anyone sitting at home on a sofa playing this game have the necessary skills to take it to that level? >> absolutely. you know most of the competitive side of "fortnite" is played on pc. there is opportunity for players playing on the console, ps4, xboxs to join in on the fun, actually qualify for some of the official epic events. we have the summer skirmish. we had five weeks. i believe a console player on

ps4 or xbox won the second week, netted about $140,000 right into his pocket one day of playing. ashley: i read this, 26-year-old, tyler, ninja, blevins, has a 100 million followers and channel views. he rakes in $500,000 per month playing this game. this is mind blowing but to you that is probably not surprising? >> for him it is not that surprising but in the, i've been in esports since 2002, esports followed came from industry grassroots, it became something because the players wanted it to be. "fortnite" is a totally different beast. it is allowing players to not only become super stars as professional players but also to become superstars, you know, in the traditional sense where someone like tyler blevins,

ninja, grains note right to the someone like cristiano renaldo or lebron james. ashley: wow. as agent, you take a slice. do you represent individuals or take the individual and maybe swap teams? i know these games are played in teams. is it like soccer, nba, take a player, gamer it, may be shift them to another team? is that how it works? what kind of a slice do you get? >> you know, first and foremost, the agency level we definitely represent each of our players, streamers, content create to us on a individual basis. ashley: yep. >> there are some instances where we represent multiple players on a team. there are certainly instances where personnel change to a team is the right thing to do. you know "fortnite" is something we never quite seen before. it does have solo play, play with two people and play with four people, solo, duo or

squads, "fortnite" is the most interesting esport in the world, it is the first esport since quake, 12 or 15 years ago allowed people to gain true superstar status as an individual. ashley: right. you avoided my question, chris, what slice do you get? do you get 10%? 20%? >> we take a small percentage of the esports. the player salary, the prize money. signing bonuses that we negotiate and take a slightly bigger percent of sponsorship deals, endorsement deals. we put a player on billboard, in a commercial appearances all that kind of stuff. ashley: life is good, isn't it, chris lloyd? >> life is great. i'm in one of the most interesting, interesting line of work that you could ever be in. esports is the coolest, new emerging industry. to be in esports for some years and finally have it to this point where some people can make a career is truly remarkable. ashley: we love success. congratulations to you, chris.

this whole story is remarkable. i get the feeling we're just kind of scratching the surface. chris, thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> yeah, thank you so much. great to be here. ashley: question, what is more interesting, a brawl at an nfl practice or tiger woods making a dramatic run at the pga championship. i know what i think. we'll debate that next. go, tiger. ♪ the fact is, there are over ninety-six hundred roads named "park" in the u.s. it's america's most popular street name. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your siding.

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today selling off. to sports. tiger woods finished second place at the pga championship over the weekend that shot, by the way, was remarkable. joining us jared max, to talk about the phenomenon that is tiger woods. great news for the network whose ratings will go through the roof. it was remarkable effort by tiger woods. i don't know if anyone watched. i was glued sunday afternoon. he came so close. >> could you imagine 15 months ago when we were watching video of tiger woods from the police car dash-cam video, stumbling, embarrassing to watch, hurtful. some people actually pitied him. can you imagine then that we would be where we are yesterday. ashley: the mug shot, classic mug shot. >> with tiger woods we saw more emotions than i ever seeing, regular joe emotions, excitement. he is aware how far he has come. you're a champion, best what you do, that mark of a champion is

there, because he had to fight so hard to get back. ashley: prove that he could win in another major. i feel sorry for brooks koepka, who won three out of seven majors. yesterday the crowd following tiger woods was huge. adam scott and bruce koepka were setting the course had few people following them. quite remarkable. >> made it easy for brooks koepka he was not playing in the same group as tiger woods because of all the noise. tiger didn't win this one. that's fine. i feel like we saw a fantastic season finale for your favorite show. now there is unbelievable drama built for the season opener next year. susan: is tiger mania back then? i looked at my twitter feed, tiger, tiger. at the u.s. open when he led by one stroke. they think he will win another major. ashley: to susan's point, is that what golf needed.

>> to your point, we have great players when you put tiger in the backdrop, final round, i felt like i was watching the stretch run of the kentucky derby, nine or 10 horses within a length. liz: how bad is his back? how severe is the injury? >> how bad will he recover from this. there were spine sal fusion and multiple surgeries. ashley: if he plays with a bad back. jared we're out of time. we could talk about tiger all day. more omarosa tweets to president trump. i know it is not presidential to take a low-life like omarosa, i would rather not doing so, this is modern day of communication. the fake news media will work overtime to make wacky omarosa look legitimate as possible. sorry! more "varney" after this.

♪ ashley: classic, "day tripper." stuart varney, where you are, you are smiling. i can tell. checking the big board. we're doing. dow up 43 points. the dow at 25,357. big tech names, amazon and panel, ho-hum, hitting all-time highs. susan: a big rally. ashley: a big rally, you're right. what about amazon? 1922. it was a great year. walmart biggest drag on the dow, porting earnings this week, we'll see how they're doing especially with the online fight with amazon. walmart down half a percent at 89 bucks. now to politics. why not? far left candidates, in-f,

backed by alexandria ocasio-cortez, she not only lost but doing worse than before she was endorsed by miss cortez. joining us now, david avella, go pac chairman. is it a curse? we're told she is the darling of the young democratic party, ocasio-cortez, that she appeals to the bernie sanders people who are looking for the next young leader, yet she is the reverse of the midas it appears for her fellow democrats? >> the smart money, miss cortez being the nominee 2020 for president if president obama's rise to the white house is any indication. before he took office for the very first time he was out and seen as a rising star and speaking at democratic conventions. every candidate he endorsed, almost every candidate he endorsed during his presidential years lost. smart money is on miss cortez to

be the 2020 nominee. now that michael after ven -- avenatti is thinking of running for president. ashley: here is what he said, president's tweet says, many harley david owners plan to boycott the company if manufacturing moves overseas. great. most other companies are coming in our direction, including harley competitors. really bad move. u.s. will have a level playing field or better. david, let me ask you this. the president seems to be picking winners and losers s that really what the gop stands for? >> harley-davidson has had sales decline for some time now. so they have bigger concerns than a presidential tweet. but let's keep in mind here that it has been president trump and congressional republicans who have delivered a tax-cut package that is making wages go up, increasing benefits for

employees. it is allowing companies to invest more in their operations to create more jobs. it is helping to create a shortage of workers that can fill the jobs that our economy is creating. it is putting judges on the courts that are interpreting law, not making the law. it is getting rid of regulations that allow employees and employers to best compete. it has been president trump and congressional republicans that put our economy on a path that continues to create more working jobs than does workers. ashley: david, says tariffs could cost them up to 45 million bucks this year alone. they have to answer to shareholders, do what is best for them. should they be singled out? >> goes back to what they said in the beginning. harley-davidson sales declines and challenges they faced in the company started before the tariffs. ashley: you put tariffs on top, it gets even worse. >> as the president mentioned there are other companies moving here, including competitors to

harley. so, in a free market economy, those who can survive will survive. and just so that the level playing field is theirs. that is what president trump and congressional republicans are working for. ashley: that is interesting, isn't it? just a bigger picture question for you, david, seems to me the democrats are somewhat split right now to the ocasio-cortez group on the left and perhaps more moderate. as we look at the midterms, could that be a bigger factor than the democrats would like to let on? >> there is a common theme amongst all democratic candidates that they are campaigning on what they call medicare for all. but we all know it as government-run health care. there may be wording differences it doesn't, it doesn't change the fact that democrats ultimately still moving us towards a system where government has more control over people's lives and republicans have a message of, look at this economy. wages are up, benefits are up. there is more jobs than workers.

we are on a food -- good path here in america. we have to keep it going. ashley: good note to leave it there, david. appreciate your time. let's get back to tesla. elon musk says the saudis approached him multiple times about going private. that ask what he said. jack hough, "barron's" senior editor. does that give him credibility back, hey, the saudis were talking to me on several occasions about taking the company private? does that ease any fears, jack hough? >> i think it is totally out of place for a company chief to be talking this way or tweeting this way with so specific a number, and yet, no concrete specifics on the when, where or the who. there are already lawsuits rolling in. this sort of thing. i think it was totally ill-advised. really, you know, kind of unprecedented. i can't think of a comparable

situation. liz: you're right. agree with jack. i left meeting with saudis in my mind, no question that a deal with the sovereign front could be closed. no question, is different from the word past tense, secured with a d on it, right? >> what is the payoff for him, right? why did this have to go out that moment on twitter? the answer can not be to move the stock price or he is in a lot of trouble. there has to be some other motivation. susan: musk said he alerted the board -- ashley: august 2nd. susan: that he was looking to take the private $420 a share. in the class-action lawsuits filed in san francisco, the pretense was this false information? ashley: right. susan: that musk was putting out in the market. they say he was seeking funding, he can prove he was seeking funding --

liz: oh, my god, we get into lawyerly disassembling. the markets don't believe. susan: a month ago, it was trading below $300. liz: doesn't matter. secured, past tense. you have sec rules don't do this, then don't do it. he did it without talking to the board. he caught the board flat-footed. >> our columnist at "barron's" thought there was relationship between the 420 price and was there quality cannabis when the idea came out. ashley: 420. next one for you, jack. here is a look at "barron's" cover story. jack dorsey is double duty ceo for twitter and square. here is how he revived them both. wasn't that long ago he was being roundly criticized for being unable to handle both companies. they are physically across the street from each other in san francisco. he can run back and forth, short commute, but he managed to, you could argue handle both gigs.

>> you have to just acknowledge these are two of the best performing stocks this year. investors are coming around. for twitter a lot has to do with video, making money off video, securing content. partnering with broadcast groups for almost real-time clips. ashley: you think the president has helped him with his use of the medium? >> he didn't -- i thought golden era for twitter was two years ago. so he did early on but it is coming around. square hitched their wagon to bitcoin. as an investor you could do a little more forecasting for twitter rather than guessing -- ashley: for twitter, hasn't monthly active users declined. susan: they shut down 70 million of the fake accounts. >> there are debates whether that is a quality problem f you're shutting down accounts because you want to keep -- ashley: curation. susan: controversy over misinformation. ashley: alex jones.

>> alex jones. there is some republicans say, call it again, shadow -- not being kind to republicans. ashley: right. >> i poo-poo that. i put it up there with war on christmas. you control every branch of government. stop playing persecuted minority. ashley: you say kudos given to jack dorsey, he managed to weather the storm on both fronts? >> he is controversial guy. you can't argue with his performance lately until we look at some changes he made. liz: you remember twitter shares started to fall towards the ipo price last year, we were thinking oh, this could be a flameout. they should be acquired. >> the concern was they would be squeezes out of the advertising market. ashley: there you go, mr. dorsey. president tweeting support for nancy pelosi, sarcastically of course, pleading with democrats not to distance themselves from her. next hour we talk to a

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ashley: well shares of apple and amazon hitting all-time highs this morning. you can see both stocks up nicely. apple up about 1 1/3% at 210. amazon up almost 2%. 34 bucks at 1920. i here profit at food service providers sysco, higher consumer prices, stronger dollar. all of that is good news. up 7% at 73 bucks. that is cisco. now to immigration.

look at this number. people illegally crossing the canadian border report he hadly up 142% from last year. joining us is brandon judd, active border patrol agent. so much attention on the southern border are you surprised by these numbers? >> i'm not. most attention should be placed on the southern border because where that is most of the crossings take place. this new trend, it was foreseeable it, was predictable. we know that crime takes the path of least resistance and because the northern border is not as well-patrolled as the southwest border it was predictable crime will now come across the northern border is what we're exactly seeing. ashley: how do you stop it to your point? it is 5500 miles long? i lived up near the canadian border when i lived in montana of all places. such a vast, empty area.

i hate to say it, if i'm a terrorist, would i rather go that route? >> look at the laws in canned today. they're very relaxed, as long as you're not on a terrorist watch list, which most people will not be on the terrorist watch list, you can fly into canada. you can get a temporary visitor visa. you can work your way to the border, cross the border illegally. i spent 15 years of my career on the southern border. i spent last five years on northern border. i'm in montana now. you can see, when i put on the uniform and i patrol the border, you know, there will be times that i'm 20 miles away from my nearest back up agent. so you can see how sparsely-populated, how few agents we have on the northern border. in fact, most large cities, phoenix, arizona, even the metro d.c. area, they have more police officers on duty at any given

time than what we have border patrol agents on the northern border. ashley: i used to live in yuma. like you i have seen both sides of the argument. covered many stories on both. that is kind of interesting. next one for you, brandon, border protection chief says the calls to abolish i.c.e. are hurting morale. how could it not. what say you? >> of course it will hurt morale. if you abolish i.c.e., you might as well get rid of the border patrol. you have to have the second layer. and that laser i.c.e. that patrols the interior of the border. they take care of those individuals that get past the border patrol. so up on the northern border, if people get past us on the northern border, it is i.c.e.'s job to find those individuals in the interior of the united states. you can't get rid of i.c.e. and expect to have border security. this cry is specifically for political reasons and it appeases, you know the far left. it just isn't smart. it is not a smart policy as far

as border security goes. ashley: we'll have to leave it there. montana is beautiful. january is a little tough on the border, give you that but it was beautiful. brandon, thank you so much. really appreciate it. now this. interesting, france setting up a new policy for cell phones in schools. susan? susan: that's right. starting in september all schools in france are banning the use of cell phones. and there are very few exceptions where you i will be allowed to use a cell phone on school premises. ashley: wow. susan: i know, right. probably coming at a good time. i looked at the statistics, 89% of those aged 12 to 17 own a smartphone in france. compare that to see what i 79% in u.s. france has higher teenage ownership of phones than the u.s. ashley: go to any school.

kids are looking down at the screen. susan: parents want to control screen time. ios 12s that screen time to reduce the amount and reduce how much they look on the phone. >> food luck with that. omarosa, former advisor to president trump, secretly taping a conversation with chief of staff john kelly in the situation room in the white house. the question is, did she break the law? more "varney" after this. ♪ two, down and back up.

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communication and i know the fake news media will working overtime to make even whacky open mo rosa look legitimate as possible. sorry. omarosa secretly taped her firing by chief of staff john kelly in the situation room, that is what she says. to help us sort out all the mess, bob massi, fox news legal analyst. we usually ask him about the housing market, my goodness, bob, we couldn't ignore this one. did she break the law but recording that conversation? or was it a smart thing to do? >> don't you live snitches? unbelievable. well, i mean, obviously, ashley, the issue is, at least in the research that has been done so far it is not a direct violation as relates legally. it looks like there is no federal violation unless there was classified information. but as it relates to internal protocol, and moral compass, of course the question would be what does this go to as to her

character and integrity? who premeditated premeditated t. as a result used it to leverage herself once again in the future. doesn't matter, doesn't matter what our president says, i understand him tweeting all that kind of stuff, when all is said and done, people will decide the credibility or lack of credibility based on what this person did. ashley: well you could argue it was questionable that she was brought into the administration in the first place, could you not? >> i was surprised. i mean i was surprised that this occurred. i'm not really -- this is no disrespect to her. i don't know her, i don't know her recredentials. ashley: right. >> i don't know why that was done. when you bring people in, no matter what business you're in, you bring people in that you trust, the bottom line, that trust needs to go the whole way. that was violation of trust. she leveraged this to her benefit. the liberal media will have a field day wit, as we've already seen. got to move on from it.

got to move on from it. the more you give it, the more recognition she loves it. that is the bottom line. ashley: maybe just stop talking about it. we're already out of time. next time we can talk about the housing market. so much to talk about there. much better than omarosa. thank you as always from las vegas. thank you so much. >> my pleasure, ashley. ashley: he does everything, housing, legal analyst. turkish president erdogan says the sanctions from washington are a stab in the back. he says he will respond to them. we'll be talking to a former ambassador from turk at this in the next hour. stay right there. ♪ jardiance asked- and now you know. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill proven to both reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease... ...and lower a1c, with diet and exercise. jardiance can cause serious side effects

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here is what is new this hour. starting with google starting with googly new investigation reveals google is tracking your location data even if you don't want them to come even if you opted out in your privacy settings. so much for that. the u.s. postal service wants to $.7 billion just last year alone. however, a new report suggested millennial could be the ones to turn it all around. we will explain. washington where positive economic news good for% growth in the second quarter appeared pretty good. the house is still up for grabs. what happens in november? how does that change things? president trump taken a hard-line with an iconic american company called the boycott of harley david n. great. remember, harley is, harley's plan to boost manufacturing overseas and is blaming terrorists paired with not a lot to cover, only an hour to do it. here is the third hour of "varney & company."

let's check the big board, please. dow 30 stocks although we are above the watermark up 11 points. of 40 or 50 points earlier. stocks shrugging off the turmoil in turkey and just kind of treading water right now. a look at harley davidson. president trump targeting the motorcycle company has been noted into that. the stock down 2.5% $42 a year as president trump street on harley. many harley davidson owners plan to boycott the company is manufacturing this overseas. great. most other companies come in our direction including harley competitors. really bad move. u.s. will soon have a level playing field or better. that's the president take great joining us now, fox news contributor john layfield out in beautiful bermuda became beautiful bermuda. came in off the beach talk to

us. what are your thoughts on this? we talked a little bit about is the right for the president to pick winners and losers kind of out of his prerogative. >> i completely agree it's wrong. it's wrong for me to root against a great american company like this. harley davidson at the year. general motors move production overseas years ago. they produce 4 million cars in china. that's why they don't have to worry about chinese tariffs coming on. same with apple and other car companies. they move production overseas. this terror for cost harley-davidson $45 million this year. $100 million going forward. they are the thin here, simply responding to these terrorists. this could hurt us long-term if the company's response to these care system is productions overseas. >> here's the latest. two lawsuits accusing elon musk of four statements.

if that is approached about taking the company private on several occasions. is that bill had not at all? what are your thoughts? >> is a great area. july 31st of may walkout at a meeting with the saudi's. as far as putting this out on twitter, you can't disseminate information on twitter if you notify your shareholders. tesla did that in november 2013. well it's unorthodox put this on twitter and there's nothing wrong with them putting it on twitter. the whole question is secured funding. ashley: i know you're a fan parody on tesla? >> stock is overpriced here. i'm not sure how they're going to make it. some type of event for shareholder equity so i would not be a buyer here at the stock. i'm a big fan of elon musk, especially with space acts. ashley: should he move out of the way a little bit? should more becoming too independent board?

>> i don't think so. i listen to what michael dell did by rejuvenating dell. he's a rocket company from scratch. last year spacex launched more than combine. this guy is the smartest in the room. i just wish it could have twitter. ashley: you can wish all you want. 70% approval rating defeated. >> john layfield and bermuda. thank you so much. we've had some positive economic news. for% growth in the second quarter is very positive. the house still up for grabs. john mclachlan, gop pollster. john, the republicans have lost to talk about. but it doesn't seem to be -- and at the midterms were a tough deal anyway for the incumbent party. the way it looks that could be a tough midterm for the

republicans. >> you would be tougher on the house. i'll tell you what the hidden code is. for those of us who work for the president and his campaign, we thought there was a trump thought that we could bring out new voters. when he won the election we brought out a record number of voters. 9 million more showed up when romney was running against obama. those voters came out for the midterms and 63 million trump voters. our chances of success are getting the voters back out. public opinion has now moved away from president trump and the republicans. the single vote on the tax cut package in record numbers of people working right now. ashley: what is the biggest arguments, health care for all? >> medicare for all. it's going to cost 3.2 trillion over 10 years. you couldn't pay for it if you doubled all the personal, corporate and income taxes in the entire country.

one that gets exposed, we went now. plus the other part of what the democrats try to do is they have any agenda. the republicans i saw our friend larry kudlow couple weeks ago in the white house to make the republican tax cuts permanent and focus with what we are doing. people are afraid of democrats taking back control of congress because they see help wanted signs now. it's not just wall street. they're protecting their jobs. they feel they have jobs until they can get pay raises. the average person is working for a living is not going to like it because they feel they lose what they have. ashley: we are going to get ready for some trench warfare between now and the midterms. there are those that believe over a dozen districts held by the gop may already be unwinnable. maybe the best strategy is to take what money can be spent there and put it into areas where it can be better served.

it's not a good strategy? do you agree? >> those are the ones who said donald trump couldn't be president. it's a big mistake. my brother jim and i have a polling company. whether it's carlos cabello, john faso. they are all looking good right now. what they tried to do is be inside the beltway politicians to psych out republicans to already retreat it has started. that's not going to happen. not with this president. ashley: we talk about ms. boccaccio cortez. she's made some interviews with facts, but is that positive for the gop because it may frighten moderate democrats? >> it's true what they stand for. the taxes they want a raise, the jobs of monocoque in the regulations they want to bring back. the majority of americans in june was 54 to 29.

they supported this government. smaller government with fewer services rather than more government. the socialist agenda which is allowed our government to not does the word. i will not fly. i hope she campaigns a lot. i hope she gets out there and campaigned. ashley: we will see. appreciate you being here. a quick look at oil for you. oil down again about 17 cents at 67 bucks a barrel. how about the national average for a gallon of regular gas at $2.85. it's been there for a while. now to the post office commend the u.s. postal service had to $.7 billion just last year alone. the new report suggested millennialist could be the ones to turn it all around. really? california's regulators may have cooked the books just to justify the mandates that will require for homes built after 2020. we are on that story. plus, president trump back to

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ashley: indirect or suggested millennialist in the post of his house. susan explains. >> snail mail next millennialist feel bad because it takes effort to get a letter and mail it. pakistan, the envelope, it and put it into the post office. that actually is is a great experience for millennialist. it makes them feel good.

like someone is sending me something. it feels special. conversely, all that effort into mailing a letter is kind of another reason why they don't actually use the service as much. usps has come out with a survey and we have package delivery. that is accounting for bruce to half a billion dollars in revenue. but then the first-class mail at postcards, letters will be declined at least $800 million in revenue. given that 80% of millennialist feel that they are satisfied or very satisfied with the post office. they want to feel good. they want to receive letters. ashley: id. i never wanted those windows during the lunch hour. it's like going to the dmv really. >> millennialist called a 44% are using the office right now compared to gen xers and the baby boomers. ashley: do use the post office, suzanne? >> i try not to.

but i don't get it. people send you bills to the post office. just do it electronically now. ashley: i don't hold out much hope for the post office. president trump imposing sanctions over turkey's refusal to release a jailed american pastor at now, the turkish president says the u.s. is looking to stab it in the back. former u.n. ambassador, you should know better than any, sir, that these are difficult times. you say that the sanctions are risky. why? >> well, i see two sets of risk playing out now. one has to do with the relationship that and very important to the united states over many years an important to turkey for that matter. both countries are taking to put that relationship that will

damage american interests. the second set of risks have to do with the broader contagion effects that turkeys downward economic spiral already seems to be having with other emergency market -- emerging markets. if they contagion gets going, it will affect the u.s. economy both directly in terms of our export market around the world can indirectly in terms of its potential impact on the broader international financial system in which a country depends. clearly very tough times that matters need to be handled quite carefully on both sides. ashley: it's a very difficult time because president erdogan has wanted to be what we call a model muslim democracy. i question not by itself, but these crush the independent media. jailed his critics, effectively taken control of all the government institutions. this sounds like a dictator if ever there was one. i understand the importance of its position in the world as

iran and syria, but this difficult individual seems to be going in the wrong direction when it comes to i perceive. >> the problem of authoritarianism in turkey that you referred to is obviously a very serious one and has contributed quite essentially to the downward spiral that goes back a number of years. doesn't change the fact that turkey is and remains and continue to be a valuable asset for the united dates and defensive security matters and intelligence cooperation, economics and trade. it's a relatively small number of countries with which the united states has a favorable balance of trade surplus. i think there are ways to manage the problems that turkey presents them to do what we can to counter the authoritarian drift that's clearly underway. again, it's effectively a big

challenge. ashley: i've got 10 seconds. do we get past the back or does erdogan dig his heels in? >> have to say. the smart approach on his part would be to cut his losses come a range for the release of pastor brent then another americans that are held. ashley: we shall follow carefully. we have some breaking news. anti-trump fbi agent peter strock has been fired. >> he faces demotion in a 60 day suspension. he was what i did the building did the build image and devoted to the human resources department at esa's been let go. his lawyer is questioning the removal of peter strzok from the fbi. the 22 year veteran found to be shared anti-trump text messages that this for a paramore, lisa

paige, who we know has quit the bureau. there have been five fbi workers exhibited anti-trump bias. peter strzok said i don't have anti-trump bias, but the ig for the justice department said he did a willingness to take action against trump. >> is the number two guy in the agency. the people have been calling for this. draper he was onboard the russian probe in the hillary clinton probe. when he said we will stop it come in the midterm campaign, you try to testify saintly that the economist. his credibility has been undercut in the surfacing of these anti-trump methods. ashley: thank you very much. gucci out with new sneakers. they are dressed up with removal of jewels and hiking boots.

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the big sell off because of the sprout with turkey and the fears that contagion from economic woes that turkey earning european banks, block, block to slightly lower, down 46%. now this. at least 50 democratic saw the ballot in the midterm elections say they will not back house minority leader nancy pelosi for speaker. a report from the nbc news could joining us now is that fiction, former clinton pollster, fox news contributor and moderate democrat. that is fair. let's start with nancy pelosi. she blames nbc news on msnbc saying they talk to these candidates. i don't think i can pack or as house speaker if we take back the house. what's your reaction to that? >> is a good developments to the democrats and anyone who comes to me and says what should i say about her.

say you're going to vote against her. that being said, if the democrats win the house, i'd say the odds are getting better each day. likely to be speaker. ashley: y because she's queen of fundraising and she's been there since 2003? >> i think that's right. the power of the dollar and the old adage. so far there's no real opponent. ashley: who is the natural success? maybe crowley would've been. we know what happened to him. ocasio-cortez. >> i don't think tim brian from ohio. he tried and didn't succeed. steny hoyer 78 or thereabouts is not going to do it although there is no love lost between those two. i think she's going to be dead as much as i bemoan not. ashley: far left and i just mentioned her name, backed by

alexandria ocasio-cortez is up in the primaries november's mid-terms. is this the reverse midas touch on this individual? issue to radical? >> i think they will increasingly figure that out. she won a lower turnout primary in an arguably unrepresentative congressional district in new york city. a liberal bastion. that doesn't necessarily translate to the midwest. those are the areas that donald trump was in the 2016 election. they are not liberal havens. if anything, they are moderate to conservative and they don't go for the bernie sanders ocasio-cortez ideology. ashley: she came out of nowhere. she's likable, but she's cringingly embarrassing in interviews or tissue tends to say things she doesn't really

know. in the gop bear lake bring it on. great for us. great development. >> for the democrats is pretty darn good news that five of the six candidates are lost last week. we don't need her to have much if any influence over the national democrat. >> is there room for you in this party because we know bernie sanders was doing, free health care for everyone. do you still feel like it's your party? >> i feel a lot less make it my party. candidly, the elect that is where i am, not where some six or bernie sanders is. do a general election in swing districts you've got to be moderate as we saw with connor land. ashley: last one for you. what do you make of the venus allegations against keith ellison. .com not. >> will come at this point he's

denying the evidence itself is not clear. the boyfriend of the woman who's allegedly abused is saying it did happen. at the very least we need these kind of cases in the year of me to and there's a substantial gender. gender gap the party should do an investigation and if mr. ellison didn't do anything fine and if you did, then it would probably be time for him to step aside. ashley: indeed, i agree. thank you. how is florida? >> much better. ashley: thank you very much. "the boston globe" is in listing 100 newspapers to write anti-trump editorials. joining us now author of the second. it's terrific. ronald reagan presidential foundation executive director. welcome to the show. we would like to draw some

parallels between the current president ronald reagan. use a president reagan face some backlash on the mainstream media much in the same way president trump is now. how would you rate president trump in comparison to how president reagan handled the negative press. >> you know, two different worlds 30 years past the reagan president p. the press no doubt even during the reagan presidency could be considered liberal just as they are today. technology and times have changed so much that ronald reagan needed the media in order to get his message out. he had three network stations. there is no such thing as fox. he had a few large newspapers and that is how we had to speak to the american people other than when he gave a presidential address. he had social media, the internet has been invented by al gore. he's able to treat on any given

morning and give directly to the people. >> would've got about 85 is coming on quick until the midterms. you believe republicans will lose seats in the house. bubba reagan lost 27 seats in the 1982 midterms, but still very affect it. my question to you, if it doesn't go the way the gdp, does president trump have the ability in your mind to cross the aisle and kind of work with a tip o'neill that president reagan did. or is there a tip o'neill and the other side of president trump could live with? >> i do think president trump demonstrated through the outset of his presidential term the ability to work across the aisle. there's so much bad to them as we can feed this morning with "the boston globe" and hundreds of editorials ready to come out against them coming he's at war with the prius and that makes it

really difficult for him to work across the aisle like mike reagan is able to do. >> we know president reagan's relationship with russia. how has he responded to the russian interference over elections. what do you think president reagan would have done? >> we have to remember ronald reagan put the word former into former soviet unions. if reagan were alive today, he would be as tough as you can possibly imagine over these issues with russians meddling in our elections where this really would've gotten reagan standard of it i've got to say, president trump is not giving us as much credit as they should for the actions he's taken the russians. he's done well in that regard in the media is so interested in him taking personal shots and what really matters is the

action is put in place which had been as strong as reagan's. transducing question for north korea. it appears north korea still building the icbm missiles. should president trump be tougher? he's trying to form some sort of relationship. when you think of that approach? >> in comparing to reagan, the big difference is reagan would've never step down with kim jong un. it wouldn't have happened unless the treaty to actually do something with in-place. i think while president trump deserves credit for trying year, he's been somewhat of a tight spot now with koreans back peddling, this could be years of struggle and i don't think we've won this one. ashley: will have to leave it there. another shout out your boat called the second coming. i've heard he started and memory be hooked. there it is. thank you so much. appreciate it.

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unnecessarily longer routes to get to the destination in order to boost up their fares. they claim that it's not the passenger that pays the extra costs. it is actually tuber and left because they say passengers are on the hook for a pay fair way pick up front price has an estimate ideal route. on my trip to jfk airport they took the long way, i actually got the higher fare at the end of it. we adjusted according to the links. so i'm thinking, does this really happen? apparently they get 25% commissions air. it also hurts the drivers as well because you're using up your timer you can pick up another passenger and fair in extra commission. so i'm not sure. according to the article, only

1% of rights or long haul. ashley: will get to the bottom of it, but we know you're going a long way around to jfk. susan, thank you. energy regulators hired a consulting that long haul solar panels and homes. this has been a rising housing costs. the california republican party chairman. jim, thank you so much. these standards i believe that most new homes built after 2020 includes solar panels on their roofs. it's going to save so much money. but now we hear bit of a con job. is that right? >> it absolutely is. the fact of the matter is california has taken armatures and makers very rational environmental program and taken them to illogical extremes. bush's deal with solar. utilities in california are

forced to buy more solar than they need many, many months out of the year so the ratepayers get to pay for the solar that we don't need. and then we have to offloaded so we go to the utilities added date and say we buy are extrasolar. they say no. how about if we give it to you for free. they say no and come back and save energy password. they actually pay to have utilities. the one you raise is just crazy. this analyst says it will save homeowners money if we require rooftop solar on new homes. well, if you will save money, then homeowners would do it on the natural. in my area 40% of the homeowners do by rooftop solar. but it will cost money. government never gets it right on the cost in industrial scale solar is much less expensive than rooftop solar.

>> the next one for you. the wildfires in california still raising horrible, horrible time. 7000 acres and burned so far. the fires will become political implications of the state democrat to basically bid off gop house members for their environmental vote. why is the gop responsible for this according to the democrats? >> this is part of a carefully crafted democrat strategy to blame washington for everything else. we have a violent crime rate that is rising than it's been for 10 years. we have a rising welfare population with homelessness reaching across the state and they want to do crazy things like require corporate board to add more directors. and then they want to blame washington for everything.

part of a carefully crafted strategy to blame washington. the fact of the matter is california has mismanaged and that is why we have forest fires raging out of control. >> thanks for joining us. appreciate it. hitting all-time highs this morning. apple up a couple of bucks at 209 points 79 just a short time ago. of 21 books in 1900. >> apparently piper jaffray says their advertising business will overtake their car business by 2021. that's why it's rallying today. >> of 21 bucks. boosted by higher consumer prices and a stronger dollar. up 6% or more 72 bucks on cisco. let's take a look at the

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>> take a quick look at the big board. down 82 points. session lows. we are seeing techs stage in a rebound. i still think the crowd of turkey hanging over the market just a little bit sinking down a little more now down 82 points on the dow. an investigation found some google apps automatically store location data even if you've shut off your location data. hillary bond joins us now with more on this. i guess another big tech privacy

issue again. >> again. a lot of people have become more and more aware of privacy, what data they share with different companies. a lot of users have turned off location history for their google apps to prevent google from stashing information about their every move. in this report finding there may be a catch even with location history turned off, google is still stashing away your private movements. they just aren't displaying them in what i call location history. even with this location history option turned off, when you open google maps, they'll automatically pinpoint your location and store that data. they're whether apple located where you are and store that information even google searches unrelated to pinpoint where you are and say about the information in their database. they are arguing that google is purposely misleading consumers by letting them turn off

location history without making it clear that this is not keep their location data off the books. anyone using the android software about 2 billion people can't grab hundreds of millions of iphone users are affected by this. google says they are being clear. there's a number of different ways google may use locations to improve people's experience. we provide clear descriptions of these tools so people can turn them on or off and delete history at any time. here's what you need to do if you want to take your location data private. turn off a setting called the web app activity. dallas debacle from gathering data about where you are, where you're going. you also need to go to my tv.google.com and take a look and feel of the information. i was a user who had location history off, but i had the web and app activity on, which means they've been tracking where i'm

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i think the ratings were up 69% over year. the network saying god bless tiger. the tiger effect is back. that said is, the golf news is over. i said cavuto being anchored by neil cavuto. i was losing track of the names anchoring the show. neil: might i point out, tiger wint didn't win. someone else won. let's calm down here. ashley: depression. neil: do you have miniature golf results? we'll have tiger update ourselves. thank you all for your very love-filled notes and emails. some i can't repeat here, connell mcshane wrote them. one of the fellows i definitely want to thank in my absence, charles payne and david asman. they thought they found a troika to replace me. not so fast, america. look what happened i