liz: you get balloons. i haven't seen balloons. we had confetti and dollar bills. fox business kicks in. it is unchanged. [closing bell rings] it turned negative. did we call it too early? oh, now it is up seven. i will call it a yes. what do you think, "after the bell"? melissa: delivering on promises, exceeding expectations president trump touting the economy and stock market as all three major averages flirt with record territory. connell: that's it for now. melissa: the dow closing come on, hang on. looks like it is up a point. fighting for the fourth consecutive record. i'm melissa francis. connell: i'm connell mcshane. this is "after the bell." s&p is up about five now. they will fall short. needs to be up six points plus for would have been 100th record close unpresident trump. looks like we're short of that. nasdaq in record territory up by 22 points. a quarter of 1%. 15th record close. 2019 for the nasdaq.

that we're sure of. fox team coverage. a lot going on, gerri willis on floor of new york stock exchange. edward lawrence at president trump's speech at the economic club of new york. christina partsinevelos in the newsroom. edward we start with you in new york. reporter: connell, president donald trump taking credit for the booming economy. he says deregulation and tax policies that created in economic expansion. he calls the greatest economic recovery in u.s. history. now within that, the president says that his economy is booming despite the fact that he says that the federal reserve raised rates too fast and is cutting them too slow. the president also taking on leveling the trade playing field. he is unapologetic how he is doing that. with tariffs and power of the u.s. economy. listen. >> my goal to ensure that this power works for america's favor and for america's workers and

for america's companies. we want the incentives created by our tax trade, regulatory and energy policies to be pro-growth, pro-worker and 100% pro-american and more is yet to come. reporter: more is yet to come. the president says other countries like china will no longer be taking advantage of the united states. we saw some of what he will campaign on in 2020, saying again, the best is yet to come. adding he made a promise, he kept those promises. president trump points to the usmca, saying he is getting his job done. now it is up to democrats to get it passed. the president ratified, the president spent a lot of time on the federal reserve saying that the fed again raised rates too quickly, moved too slowly on the other side. >> i don't say that is good for the world. i'm not president of the world. i'm president of our country but we are competing against these

other countries. nonetheless and the federal reserve doesn't let us play at that game. it puts us at a competitive disadvantage. reporter: president trump finishing up saying if a democrat wins the white house in 2020, the economy will stall. back to you, connell. connell: edward thanks. thinking of stalling, watching the dow as edward is speaking. gerri willis from the new york stock exchange. it is almost comical to watch the dow. let it settle. it it is slightly lower, so. reporter: it is unbelievable. it settled negative there. so i got to tell you this is a little like groundhog day every day. we're waiting to see yet another celebration, more balloons. but the dow not, just barely missing, setting a new record. the s&p, barely missing a new record. the nasdaq in record territory. amazing all-time highs for

microsoft and apple. as a risk-on day commenced. we're seeing those shares hitting all-time highs interest day. let me talk a second about facebook, facebook pay, a new product they're launching via messenger. instagram, whatsapp. they will allow you to pay via this app. they're rolling it out on messenger and facebook this week. the stock is up handily. cvs, get to that quickly. shares are down. the company missed on third-quarter revenues. they were actually, 3.3 billion. the estimate, 3.36. you should know that shares of sister company viacom, process of merging with cvs, down 3% as well. there is a lot of unhappiness there to spread around with the companies. that is unusual as we continue at highs in the marketplace. don't blink. connell: try not to. big media today. melissa? melissa: no story book opening for disney. disney plus facing outages on launch day.

is it a sign of things to come for the mouse's effort into the streaming wars. kristina partsinevelos has been following the story all day. she is live in the newsroom. kristina? reporter: disney is saying outages due to some people checking out the website and platform. according to down detector.com, there is over one had you thousand different reports from people around the globe, more so in the united states and canada suffering from the outages. disney took to twitter to comment. and i quote, you really went to infinity and beyond. the demand for disney plus exceeded our highest expectations. we're so excited to watch your favorites. we're working quickly to resolve any current issues. we appreciate your patience. if you're wondering what you get on yet another streaming platform? you get all classics of course. the whole entire "star wars" saga. you have, the "lady and the tramp." the list continues. there is about 500 movies, 75,000 episodes and even one

original show as well as a new "star wars" show called "the mandalorian." it seems to be doing quite well. i was checking a reddit blog. the question how does it stack up in terms of price? there you can see on the screen from left to right, literally going in increasing order how everybody stacks up. disney plus at 6.99. still undercutting netflix that seems to be a goal for the company. bob iger understands they have fewer, less content than the likes of netflix but he has said that he won't need to dish out as much money to buy new content because they have such a large vault already. speaking of the man you're seeing on the screen right now, bob iger, 68 years old, he has been ceo of disney for over 14 years. so the big question is, what is going to be his legacy? is it going to be a streaming platform? under him the acquisition that disney had, you have got everything from pixar, marvel,

lucas films, 21st century fox deal ended this year at $71 billion. i threw bam tech on the screen because bam tech is a streaming platform that helped launch the disney plus we are talking about today. to come full circle. i leave the question for you guys. how many different streams services do you have? that will be the question with this disney plus service. they're not expecting it to be profitable until 2024. they have to steal a lot of market share. on average the average american subscriber has 3.4 services. how about you? melissa: i have 3.3. it is really weird. reporter: the average. melissa: we're never serious. sorry about that, kristina. i won't admit how many i have. it is more than three. i don't want to admit it. >> i have three. melissa: me too. connell. connell: nasdaq record close. boy i'm a little distracted by the dow. a little bug on the bottom of

the screen. the dow is unch. it happened a number of times. settling in at 0.00 odd for lack of a better term. in the latest phase of the brick-and-mortar expansion amazon confirming it plans to open a new grocery store. new grocery store brand. that is coming next year. deirdre bolton here to tell us about it. what are details? reporter: for the moment one store near l.a. in california. it is it will be near whole foods but will not say how. american grocery market is roughly $800 billion a year. walmart still the leader, amazon's big rival. most analysts say amazon wants to keep taking on walmart. expanding in grocery helps amazon reinforce customer loyalty, grow revenue. some are beth the new amazon will somehow be a discount grossry business. amazon will keep whole foods

apart as hiring brand for organic and specialty foods. we'll see what develops. meantime, speaking of big tech, google in focus. it seemed up with ascension. this is a massive hospital system. they are story together data, records, hospital names, dates of birth, patients not told about their data being stored. neither were the doctors. both companies say this is legal. ascension released this statement. i will read you part of it. all work related to ascension's engagement with hipaa compliance is underpinned by robust data security and protection effort, adherence to ascension's strict requirements for data handling. hipaa is the law since 1996. it allows hospitals to share data with business partners basically as long as the information is used to help the covered entity to carry out their functions. both companies say that is the case.

ascension says we can help more people as individuals. suggest a different prescriptions, a different specialist. we'll be able to bill you in more efficient way. google says they use the data to work on advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning with the goal of individual patients. business takeaway, business tech or big tech rather is coming for the health care business. it is a $3.5 trillion industry in the u.s. it is 18% of our gdp. amazon, microsoft, google. they see big opportunities in serving this industry. of course they are all facing off against each other. as far as getting a new cloud business, new data storage, business, with he heard from google's ceo sundar pichai he is ready to take on amazon, microsoft in this area. health care is a great place to do it, connell. connell: interesting all around. we had our best people on it. we figured out the last time the dow finished unchanged on the

day. unch, april of 2014. y'all remember that day. april of 2014. doesn't happen often. don't quote me, my quick googling around 2001 was time before that. melissa: during the day but not at the lows. connell: kind of weird. melissa: you're making a really big deal out of it. i will try to join you there. connell: i'm easily distracted. i kept looking to see. i wanted to look it up. there you go. melissa: all right. intensifying faceoff. officials in hong kong sounding the alarm after one of most violent clashes in more than five months of demonstrations. connell: calling for a complete transformation of the system. san francisco newly-elected district attorney pledging a series of sweeping criminal justice reforms. we'll talk to steve hilton about this, "the next revolution" host, what it means for the future of the city. you want to stay tuned for that. it is next. ♪. melissa: sorry, more than

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melissa: on brink of a total break down, protests in

hong kong hitting universities in business district. police firing tear gas in the second day of demonstrations the greg palkot is in lond hong kong. reporter: you're absolutely right, melissa. another day of night from hong kong, admitting dire warnings from officials. prodemocracy protesters, police doing battle in the central business district, one of scenes unrest. after all one of bloodiest days of violence in five months of trouble in the chinese territory. 287 were arrested. 128 injured on monday, a young man shot at point-blank range by a police officer. another man was doesed with a liquid he set on fire by protesters. the violence spread as you noted to universities there, blocking rail lines and disrupting shopping malls. top official in the hong kong police force saying today, this

is a quote, society there on the brink of a total break down, describing actions of rioters as insane acts. the state department expressed grave concern about what was going on in hong kong. chinese officials today, blasted what they called foreign interference. finally for her part, the beijing-backed hong kong chief executive carrie lamb, she spoke up today. she will do her very best to allow important local elections to go forward as scheduled at the end of this month. some want them postponed due to violence. one more word from chinese officials which is a little bit alarming, melissa. 12,000 chinese troops garrisoned inside of hong kong. we're available we're told for support, if things get worse. back to you. melissa: wow, greg, thank you. connell: claudia rosette, independent women's forum. you spent a long time in hong kong. the situation is going on since june.

we talk about it all the time. there seems to be something about the last few days or maybe this last week which has greg points out is even worse. why is that? what led the recent cancellation? >> hong kong is planning to hold district elections a week from sunday. the speculation with incredible public anger at the government, pro-democracy candidates may do very well. there is a lot of speculation that the government is deliberately stirring things up in order for an excuse to postpone the elections or turn public sentiment against the lom live on line, right now, it is quite traumatic, it is very clear that the police are going way beyond things that they need to do. they have been extremely -- for

a long time. stirring things up what i would call it. connell: the instigators in this case, what you've seen, footage you talked to is the actual police force? a lot is made whether or not the military would need to be used. your point it doesn't really matter? >> again, there are a lot of signs, it is not absolutely confirmed but i think it is quite plausible, that china's people-armed police are working within the hong kong police. the reason for thinking that there would 30,000 hong kong cops when the demonstrations began in june. these guys are out there in force in enormous numbers. are they really the same police force we had in june? connell: yeah. >> there is one other thing and that is, the thing that is also stirring this up is that carrie lamb, the chief executive and china's dictator president xi xinping, have given nothing. the demonstrators have just gotten nothing.

she should be fired. look at the way she is governing the city? connell: right. instead, xi xinping really, at least for now, affirmed, when she was in shanghai recently, no we're behind her. we support carrie lamb. final word for our audience on the business climate if you would. obviously, i guess struggling, we've had data recently showing hong kong slipping into recession, no surprise, given what happens in the streets. what would you say about hong kong's future, just future of business in hong kong? it was known for that for some years? >> clearly china's government wants it to be sort of a surf state like other parts of china. they obediently make money, keep their mouths shot, don't interfere in the dictator's desires, if that happens, hong kong may continue to function. it will not be a thriving vibrant city it has been. if the demonstrators if protesters prevail, i think odds

are against it, you would see a renaissance in hong kong. this really comes down to freedom. that is what they want. china will not give it to them. ask yourself what you would do if you were in that, if china were taking over your country right now, what would you be willing to do? and, the bottom line with hong kong we're discovering that much as they love machine any, they love freedom more. connell: freedom more. we'll watch the elections. we appreciate you coming on. claudia, thank you very much. melissa: taking the liberal city further to the left. breaking down san francisco's incoming district attorney's new agenda. we'll talk to steve hilton, "the next revolution" host next. practicing journalism. why northwestern student newspaper is apologizing for covering a news event on the campus coming up. ♪ 's growth

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melissa: san francisco moving further to the left. the citi's newly-elected district attorney telling the aclu that he won't prosecute, quote, quality of life crimes. camping in public, soliciting sex and public urination or blocking the sidewalk. bring in steve hilton, host of "the next revolution" on fox news. i mean the quality of live already massively on the decline in san francisco. someone gets ushered into office promising to do even less about it. what do you make of that? >> it is completely nuts, melissa. actually, you could argue, the only crimes that you should focus on in san francisco right now are quality of life crimes because it is the quality of life is basically falling off a cliff. it's a national story. homelessness, drugs, used needles on the street, before you enter a building you have to check your feet to make sure you're not bringing them in, it

is just falling apart and yet this guy gets elected, by the way through combination of very complicated rank choice voting system and the idea that he appealed to a group of progress serves, by no means a majority in the city, talking about his personal story which is actually again for many people you would think he would be off-putting. he was actually raised by people who otherwise described as domestic terrorists. by the way we talk about going left, i talk about the loony left on my show, we make the comparison with venezuela, this guy, who just got elected district attorney in san francisco literally worked for hugo chavez in the past. melissa: no. his parents were members of the weather underground and they were imprisoned based on that robbery and murders and that's where he, that is where he comes from when he says that he decided to seek this job and

wanted to reform the criminal justice system. >> yeah. melissa: but if you look what is going on at the time, when i lived in san francisco, there was a woman who stood on the corner by the on-ramp to the freeway, without a top on every single day soliciting sex for years. it was on-ramp. no one ever did anything about it. you know, eventually we left, people who live there now say cars are broken into the nicest neighborhoods, whatever it is. it is just not safe. so they're leaving. i wonder does a point come when they don't have any tax revenue left if they drive out everybody who is looking for, you know, not having someone solicit sex while they're waiting in line to get on the freeway? you know, do they worry about what eventually happens to the tax base? >> what is interesting, so ironic when you think about the progressive left who are in charge, the very richest people

who generate most of the income can insulate themselves from all of this. they live in the fanciest parts of town where you don't see the problems so severely. they can have private arrangements, keep them out of the terribly failing public schools. they in some places have private security. they whisk through in the limos. they don't have to encounter, if you use public transportation in san francisco you see this every single day all around you, the people, tech millionaires, billionaires, they don't use public transportation system. they don't encounter it face-to-face, but still shovel money into the campaigns of people like this who are making the city worse, not better. melissa: it is not like it is good for the people living on the streets. i mean, i am not sure who this is helping. meantime, speaking of cities, very depressing, falling apart at the seams coming to my new york our own mayor found time to chime in on the

presidential prospects of michael bloomberg. listen to this. >> would he be better than donald trump? of course should he be the democratic nominee? no. i mean i want to be really clear. this is a democrat party today that is getting more progressive. that wants to address the concerns of working people. that does not accept the status quo. there is no way in the world we should nominate a billionaire who epitomizes the status quo. melissa: oh, my gosh, says, vacancies are up. crime on the subway up. rapes up. assaults up. all that's things on his watch. he will criticize the guy before him who numerically by those stats had a better record? >> i know. god forbid the democrats should choose someone as their candidate who knows how to run things, whether that is a private business or city like new york. where whatever you think of i am, on certain issues, as you say, made specific improvements in certain key areas. i just think it shows how

identity politics has totally overtaken the democrats where the thing that, first word that you hear in connection with bloomberg is billionaire, billionaire, billionaire. nothing to do with a record or nothing to do with his policies. he is a billionaire. that is his identity. therefore he is bad. it is really, really depressing. >> i didn't like michael bloomberg at all until i met de blasio. all of sudden he looked like the best mayor of all time. it is so depressing. steve hilton, i'm thoroughly depressed but i love you dearly. thanks for coming on. connell: great wrap-up an interview. setting the stage even more so for 2020. president trump laying out what he sees as central pillar of his re-election campaign. he did so earlier today. this all comes as a new democratic front-runner might emerge in the state of iowa. melissa: now is the winter of our discontent. an arctic blast breaking records

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from the "wall street journal" he is also fox thousand contributor. i watched a lot by, i heard laughter and support in the room. the economics club is not, i mean it is not a group necessarily that really embraced the president before. a lot of academics. a lot of people i would think of as never-trumpers or who didn't believe in the trump, didn't like him when he was a businessman. all that kind of stuff. were you surprised by the tone in the room? >> yeah. that crowd, as you know, as you mentioned, not the same as the alabama-lsu football crowd. melissa: right. >> this is the new york business community and i think with genuine appreciation for his humor but also the gains that we've seen to date, in the stock market, but also, a lot of people in that crowd very disappointed that they didn't get some news they were hoping for about a resolution on china

trade deal or a assurance that new tariffs were not going in on cars from asia and europe. melissa: that is the news that people were looking for. like you said it didn't come out. there was a little news about possibly more tax cuts though, right? >> i think they are putting together a tax cut 2.0. when he was, he seemed to be making the case, even more explicitly that he made in 2016 where, you don't have to like him but, you just have to believe that he is better than the alternative. and he made that a little more explicitly talking about the crazy plans of contenders on the democratic side. melissa: it is interesting. for people not inside economic oars wall street or live in new york, you are led to believe these are trump's people, the people at the economic club, the business people at new york. those are the exact people who never liked him or accepted him because they didn't think he was

traditional enough. that money came from right places. he really doesn't have any money. they didn't like his brash style. didn't like the goal. this group other than than that they liked his policies, why this would be welcoming at all contrary to possible belief. a possible deal for dreamers. the supreme court hearing oral arguments over president trump's decision to end the daca program. this is what caught my attention. there was a familiar refrain coming from the president at the end of his tweet, he said, if the supreme court remedies would overturn a deal will be made with the dems for them to stay. this is, something he is talking about from day one and democrats will never bite. you talked to democrats, we want a clean bill on daca. we'll not give you anything in exchange for that. it tells how they, they are not willing, they won't take yes for an answer on daca basically at this point. >> like a lot of americans i'm hoping there is a way for these

people who were brought here as children illegally to stay. they have, they can't be criminals. daca, you have to stay in school or be in the military or, and then almost all of them are employed but i think he has the law on his side. as he mentioned there in the tweet, this was not a change in the law. this was barack obama's pen that created this policy. the law says these people are here illegally and so i think the president has very strong hand at the supreme court. so i think once again it is going to come back to that opportunity you mentioned for congress if they really want to do something for these people, here's another opportunity to do a deal with the president. like you said, so far they have been unwilling to trade wall funding for either more immigration or more legal immigration or better pathway and a legal pathway for people who were brought here as children illegally. melissa: do your job, sit down, legislate. make a deal.

it is just, amazing. >> we're way past that. thanks. connell: overseas now. sirens wailing across the israel-gaza border. islamic jihad launching rockets into israel following the killing of a top concommander by israeli forces. trey yingst inches us from. reporter: they launched a sass assassination by. according to military intelligence service was responsible for launching a series of rockets into israel a week ago. responsible for a series of attacks into israel over the past few months. the key thing from sours though is the israelis had intelligence he planned to launch a new attack against israeli soldiers using anti-take missiles as a

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always. give a quick answer can congress walk and chew gum at the same time? our viewers are wondering about that? can we avoid a government shutdown in the midst of all the hearings starting tomorrow? >> as i speak, richard shelby, the chairman of the senate appropriations committee, nita lowey, chair of the house appropriations committee will have a meeting 5:00 p.m. eastern time to try to work out over all spending rest of this year, through october next year. what we have to approve between now and next thursday night, interim spending bill, a cr known on capitol hill. we think we might get text later this week. they are doing that. somewhere behind the scenes, criticism on the senate floor by mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, democrats in the house not moving the usmca because they're so obsessed with impeachment. connell: right. that will be where all attention is over however long this lasts i guess. we'll try to cover it all. set up tomorrow for us if you will. state department official george consent, along with bill taylor,

acting ambassador to ukraine of the those are the witnesses, a public impeach hearing, what about lines of questioning. what can we expect? >> democrats will try to stay out of the way, facilitate, let them tell their story. this is from one democratic source earlier today, to me, he said, quote, taylor had the best view of the scheme. notice the language here from the democrats, scheme. he is a habitual note taker. he is your worst nightmare, very prepared. republicans will counter, connell, taylor did not have direct first-hand knowledge about the phone call. a lot of what we had in these depositions and transcripts the past few days are perceptions from bill taylor, george kent, others what was going on behind the scenes. republicans will point out at the end of day, there was no deliverable. no investigation of the bidens and aid ultimately was freed up. republicans they tell me because they're upset because they can't refute any testimony by witnesses tomorrow, heretofore,

adam schiff chairman of the intelligence committee is not allowing any witnesses they requested on saturday. connell: phone call you referred to, back and forth has referred to president trump's conversations with the president of ukraine. for people just tuning in now, it will be a public hearing for the first time, first time since the clinton hearings in '98, give us a little background on ukraine. why it is so important in the impeachment inquiry? >> it was just about five 1/2 years ago, that petro poroshenko, defeated by vladimir zelensky as president of the ukraine. he came here to speak before congress to ask for aid. that was significant to have poroshenko to ask for aid. ukraine they say is bulwark against russian influence and other parts of europe. the issue of ukraine and former soviet union, this goes back to the times of joseph stall len.

it was independent at the end of the cold war and after olympics in sochi in 2014. vladmir putin he annexed part of crimea which has gone back and forth a couple times part of russia, ukraine and the soviet union. connell: chad everyone will be watching tomorrow. thank you for the brief. pad pergram. melissa: journalism morality in question. northwestern student university newspaper is issue apology to offended or retraumaized protesters of a recent coverage of a campus event with jeff sessions. bring in our own david asman. don't you protest because you want to draw attention? they're upset about the attention? >> there is that and there is also the question of what kind of journalists is that school? the mcdill school of journalism at northwestern is world famous. it's a baseline for what journalism should be in the united states but what does that say about the way they think about journalism, the way

they're teaching students to be journalists? frankly i never went to journalism school. i believed doing it on the ground, learning the hard way, learning by going down to latin america for 12 years. that is the thing. when you go down to a place that is a dictatorship or something, you want to be concerned, if you take a picture of somebody in a protest, you mention somebody by name, you get their permission because you don't want to have them end up in a labor camp or worse but this is the united states of america. this was open protest. not like these people will be slammed in irons going to a protest. what kind of -- how are these journalists do in a war zone. melissa: this is how they're being taught. what is coming up on the great program? >> interesting we focused on this topic. we will talk to campus reform eduardo naret, goes on campuses, does interview with students,

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over the shore and form great icicles. it looks so beautiful. we get out here, some of the water that came over the seawall, it formed hard water ice. it is like a skating rink here and it is not even p thanksgiving yet. i want to point the camera directly east because the waves have been crashing over the seawall. we might get lucky and see some of the real dramatic visuals as the water comes up over here. but the water came up over yesterday in dramatic fashion with so much volume that it spilled over to a south-shore drive over here and put a bunch of ice on south shore drive. that forced chicago police to shut it down for hours because it was so treacherous. treacherous driving has been the deadliest part of this weather system. we know of a number of accidents. there was an accident in michigan that claimed the lives of three people, very sad, an accident in kansas that claimed the life of an 8-year-old girl, that also being blamed on bad weather and icy roads. but it's a siberian blast of air that came over down from canada, pushed its way into the united states, from this part it is moving east, bad news for you is

it is heading in your direction. it is not going to retreat back up into canada until at least thursday, but before it goes, it's expected to break some 300 records for cold temperatures including one where you're in new york, and that's a record that has held since 1873. melissa? melissa: mike, what are people around there saying? hey it is winter, well it's not quite. it's chicago. i mean, they are tough in chicago. they are used to this. >> yeah, they are tough in chicago. they are used to it but they are not used to dealing with it this early in the season. we also had this kind of miserable spring that was cold and pushed all the way into july. we had a brief window of summer, and then it was over and we're back into winter. melissa: your answer is they are feeling gypped. got it, mike tobin, thank you. go back inside. connell: news that just came in, there are reports that president trump may spend time in texas

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