about? >> the iran issue is not deterring investors. dagen: and the idea that president trump took out soleimani to distract from impeachment is ridiculous, because actually, the impeachment has lifted his approval rating. >> taking soleimani out was a good move and it's time to start thinking about drawing down troops in iraq. maria: we'll leave it there, great show, everybody thanks for joining us. varney begins right now. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, everyone, everywhere there is talk of war and they're calling this an elephant walk, 52 f-35 a's lined up in formation at their base in utah. the pentagon is sending a message to iran. we've got them and they are ready to go and we'll use them. six b-52s are on their way to the base in the indian ocean and more troops are heading to the mid-east. president trump is backing up his threat to respond firmly and quickly to hostile action. at home the media is convinced that the president is taking us

to war. the nightmare stage of trump's rule is here, says michelle gold berg in the new york times and paul krugman simply calls our president a bully. democrats lining up to attack the president, bernie sanders says he's like putin. "assassinating dissonance." meanwhile, there's real chaos, where hundreds of thousands on the streets for the funeral procession of qassem soleimani and then a stampede. iranian state news media says more than 30 are dead. overall this is a morning of confrontation, war talk threats and military preparations and as for the market, a shrug. monday the dow made a 200-point u-turn and actually closed higher. this morning we're looking at futures, minor loss for the dow and the s&p, a 10-point gain maybe for the nasdac at the opening bell but look at oil, another shrug on that market after the soleimani killing the price of oil moved to 63-$64 a barrel today it's back to 62 and

the price of gas, holding steady the national average still right there at 2.58 per gallon. stay with us, please. one hour from now, secretary of state pompeo makes a formal statement on the iran situation. you'll see it, varney & company is about to begin. president trump: he should have been taken out a long time ago and we had a shot at it and we took him out and we're a lot safer because of it. we'll see what happens and we'll see what the response is if any but you've seen what i said our response will be. stuart: he's doubling down on his decision to take out qassem soleimani. fox news contributor james free man washington journal editorial board with me now. >> yes, sir. stuart: all this war talk in your judgment is america headed for war with iran? >> well i hope not. i think the president hopes not. certainly, the world is a better

place without soleimani, but it is difficult to say what happens next. there could be retaliation and i think that it's the right move for the president to say very clearly, very forcefully that we will respond and perhaps disproportionately to any iranian attack on the u.s.. stuart: i just get the impression in looking at the media and looking at some democrat statements that they are trying to not push us to war , but trying to say that the president is taking us to war come what may. >> well i think we do need the context and i know a lot of your viewers already know this but we mentioned the two new york times columnist, they've been telling the president every name in the book including the trader for the last couple of years, so the fact that they are criticizing him i don't think is significant i think the president is where most people are, which is we don't seek war, but we are going to aggressively defend ourselves stuart: is the president on the back here?

>> i don't think so but i also don't think that it's a, i think anyone thinking this is some re-election move has it wrong. there is great risk in potential warfare. i think he has been on a path to a very good 2020. i think this adds some uncertainty which could disrupt what is a very solid economy, so i think people were thinking this is some political move have it wrong. i think he's doing what a president has to do to defend the interest of the united states. stuart: james let's turn from this to your money. look at futures, we have to be down for the opening bell not a whole lot but just remember, we did a 200-point turnaround yesterday, and actually closed higher. we're looking at a slightly lower open for the dow and the s&p, slightly higher for the nasdac. scott shelledy, market watcher joinses now. scott let me say this and wrap up my comment with this. in my opinion, investors believe that iran will not hurt america 's economy, and will not raise the price of oil

significantly. do you agree with that? >> the second one being the fact that we have a tremendous supply in the u.s. and we're not really worrying about the rest of the world and look all president trump is doing is what your parents could do to you when you were young and growing up. if you got somebody continuously taking advantage of you you're allowed to fight back and stand your ground and i think that's where america stands on this. we don't like what's happening right now, but we definitely like the actions that precipitated this just like we don't like the way china trades and we don't like being in a trade war, but you have to sometimes stand your ground, however uncomfortable that pay be to get your point across going forward. stuart: i've got to tell you though, scott, i was expecting a more pronounced response by the market, both the stock and oil, because this is a major development, right in the middle of the oil patch, right in the middle of the middle east and yet the market is almost completely slugged it off.

i was surprised at that. >> that doesn't mean that the risks are not there but it does say a few things that are a lot different. you and i are from the same background when it comes when these markets were 30 years ago, yes our hair would be on fire right now and we would be worried about the price of oil being over $100 a barrel but things have changed so much now, stuart that i sit on the desk with younger kids and they don't remember those days so they don't get as excited and they know we have a big supply of oil in the united states so things are a little bit more muted. it doesn't mean the danger isn't there but we've got a different now when it comes to oil in the middle east than it did when i was starting in the business 30 years ago. stuart: james freeman, last word to you? >> yeah you can thank the american energy revolution i should say all of the factors, but also the u.s. is much more efficient. we get a lot more gdp out of each barrel of oil than we used to. i also think that markets like that the president isn't saying i'm going to remake the middle east and invade places. he's saying we're going to be

forceful on defense. stuart: last question to you, scott. would you say this is just a temporary blip in the ongoing bull market? >> yeah, i do. i mean last year, we had three problems they were headwinds and now they might be tailwinds, china phase i, brexit and usmca, stuart that's going to come in ultimately and be a lot bigger picture than when this little iranian problem we've got on our hands right now. stuart: got it, scott, james, both of you thank you very much indeed gentlemen. thank you. stuart: moving on to cover boeing, the wall street journal says that thinking about raising debt, more cash, as the 737 max crisis takes a toll. they are also reassigning 3,000 workers away from the max jet project. boeing only down a tiny fraction down $0.04 today, 3.33 is the price. american airlines has reached an agreement, a settlement i should say, with boeing over the max jet. no change for that stock. it's actually just up 1%. let's go to tesla, real news there. look at it. they're in record territory for

the stock, 4.58 and they've delivered their first car in china at the shanghai factory, and susan, as i understand it, elon musk was dancing. >> yeah, warning to our viewers because once you see it you can't unsee it. stuart: [laughter] brave man in shanghai as the model 3 rolls off the line, in china. you have to give it to him because the china excitement has really ignited the stock into record territory. that's kind of like you, stu. isn't it? stuart: the man, look at the dance. look what he has done. >> first foreign carmaker to own their own factory in china rolling 1,000 model 3's off the line initially, up to 3,000 and according to analysts we might be looking at 100 to 150,000 model 3 deliveries, in the year that's a big deal and this is the largest car market in the world, and this has propelled the stock higher, in fact wedbush says this might add $100 to the stock, we might get

past $500 a piece. stuart: hats off. hats off to elon musk. i didn't see this coming. i downplayed him as an executive , and when he smoked weed with the podcast, i thought that's it. he's done. look at him now. >> he needed to prove himself in this market because electric car sales are down 43% in november and they are discounting this is from the chinese government sub say diplomats in order to get buyers in so i think that he has to prove to the market we can do this but right now the market is believing. stuart: he's dancing, all right check futures overall we'll be down just a little for the s&p and the dow, up just a little for the nasdac. we're waiting for secretary of state pompeo, whose going to give a briefing about iran, when he speaks should be around 10:00 this morning eastern when he speaks you'll here. >> reporter: hear it. people are leaving high tax states like new york and heading south where there's little or no income tax, no state income tax in florida, for example. we'll tell you which states are cashing in, guaranteeed.

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stuart: all right breaking news on usmca that of course is the new nafta, edward lawrence on capitol hill, close to a vote in the senate i think? >> reporter: yeah, what's going to happen now is the senate finance committee is expected today to vote to move the usmca to the full senate. that would be a vote in the full senate, but that is up to senator mitch mcconnell as to when that vote actually comes up , and he's waiting on the articles of impeachment to come over, because a source familiar with the process tells me that the priority in the senate is the trial, is the impeachment trial that's going to happen, so once that trial happens, according to the source, then the vote, then the full senate but this clears a step, so today

, usmca is going to pass, is expected to pass a senate finance committee and make it to the full senate, clearing that hurdle just waiting for the senators to vote. stuart: edward lawrence thank you very much indeed. we'll keep in touch on that and then there is this. judge judy officially endorsing mike bloomberg for president. you've got to watch this, here we go. >> i think that to define mike bloomberg as just another rich guy is one of the greatest in justices of this political campaign that we're in, because mike bloomberg is the only one of the candidates who has experience governing and managing and successful and if he's successful and happened to have made money being successful , that, folks is the american dream. stuart: okay, judge judy, right, she's got 10 million viewers by the way. gop chair rona mcdaniel joins us now. mr. bloomberg is spending a ton

of money, i believe $166 million thus far and he's doing well in the polls and now he's got judge judy on his side. what's your response? what are you doing about bloomberg? >> well, there's a lot of things with bloomberg that in his candidacy, one he's spending a lot of money so buying name id , but not in the right states, not even on the ballot in new hampshire, not even on the ballot in nevada, he's planting his flag well down the primary path. we haven't seen any committee be successful that far down plus he's not going to make the debate stage so what bloomberg really signals to me is how weak the democrat field is that nobody is going around these other candidates that have had six debates that have been campaigning non-stop. it shows how wide open that field is he's able to get any traction, and you can't discount the momentum that happens when you win in new hampshire and in iowa and south carolina and nevada. i don't think it's a good strategy to wait that far down the map and think that you're going to be successful. stuart: would you dismiss him? >> i don't dismiss anybody, but

i don't think judge judy was describing bloomberg in that clip. she was describing donald trump. he's the one whose had managerial experience and govern ing experience and been successful and brought jobs, and got this economy kick-started. that is the candidate that's going to be running that can bring that experience to the american people and proven results. stuart: what's your response, i should say, to bernie sanders comparing soleimani's death to assassinating, that's what bernie sanders said, like putin, and that word "assassination" is very important because you can't assassinate a foreign leader. >> i think it's disgusting what bernie sanders has said. when you think about the families who have lost loved ones, our men and women who have served our country, who died at the hands of soleimani, to have a candidate running for president compare killing a

terrorist who was planning an imminent threat and attack on the united states to putin, it's just frightening, and to hear nancy pelosi say that the president's response was disproportion at, well i'd like to ask nancy pelosi, how many more lives american lives need to be shed before there is a proportion at response? the president did the right thing and he took action. everyone knows that this is a man who has american blood on his hands, and it was time to take him out and he did the right thing in protecting the men and women of this country. stuart: rona mcdaniel thanks for joining us. thank you. stuart: a couple stocks we have to check for you, especially google hitting all-time highs, not right now, that is, but i believe yesterday was an all-time high, 1,395 is the current quote on google. its gone straight up this week. look at amazon, wants to get alexa into your car. i don't understand that, we'll have more on it later. amazon is above $1,900 a share

right now. qualcomm, they've got new chips that will turn your car into a robot. i absolutely don't understand this. ashley: so we're talking about autonomous cars the ones that can drive by themselves but let's not get ahead of ourselves it's all part of a package of new chips that qualcomm will be putting out and probably in stores in 2023, snapdragon ride is the name of the program. it's a series of chips and technologies basically that can take all of the data that comes in from the sensors placed around the car and then put them together so that that car can operate by itself. intel is big in this of course, nvidia, they are all racing to get a chunk of this business, and you know qualcomm says its already got $6.5 billion worth of orders in the pipeline from a variety of car-makers so they are really trying to get out ahead and they tried to buy a semiconductor business in this field last year, that fell through, because of regulatory problems but they are spending

big to get ahead. stuart: i guess it's coming. i don't know when it's going to arrive big time. i don't think i'm going to be in one of these things. >> well sticking to uber self- driving the head he said if you want a car you can plot anywhere in the world and self- drive that'll probably be another few decades. stuart: few decades? oh, see. ashley: thank you. stuart: we always like to check futures right before the market opens. ashley: the self-driving hearse. >> terrible! stuart: it was funny. >> so early. stuart: down for the dow and down for the s&p but up for the nasdac. no big moves either way thus far today. another major retail source shutting its doors, or a lot of its doors i should say. we're going to tell you why pier 1 is closing nearly half of all its locations. that's next on "varney." i'm your mother in law. and i like to question your every move. like this left turn.

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officially about bankruptcy but that is the speculation at this time. remember that earnings report yesterday, sales were down 30% year on year, it was a loss of $59 million and you're right. if you used to pop into one of the stores there are going to be 450 less pier 1 stores across the country to pop into to get that furniture or accent piece and it's about half of the outlets for this company and ceo is saying that this is going to help the company align better with the current environment, and you know, as well as i do, it's tough out there for retailers, stuart. stuart: retail ice age, that's right jackie. thank you very much indeed and then we have borden, which is one of the country's oldest and largest dairy producers filing for bankruptcy. ashley: people just aren't drinking milk as much consumption down 6% since 2015 and the rising cost of milk has also, codeine foods was the largest dairy, america's milk producer they filed for

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stuart: we're heading towards the market open, we'll get there in just a moment and joining us to cover what's going on, market watcher mike murphy along with ashley and susan. okay, here is my statement one more time. >> let's go. stuart: at this point, investors believe that iran will not hurt america's economy, and will not raise the price of oil significantly. what do you say? >> i agree. >> [laughter] >> investors are looking past the iran story, so the big, the way it would hurt the u.s. economy is if oil had a huge spike up to 80 or $90 or higher. that would be an impact on the u.s. economy. we're not seeing that, so on to

the next story, which is the u.s. economy, and the consumer here in the united states. stuart: i think you're right. i'm just surprised that we've seen just the market shrug off a major development in the middle east like we have even over the last four days anyway they are clapping and cheering at 9:30 eastern and the market is off and running and in the very very early going i see a loss of 65 points and i see a lot of red ink amongst the dow 30 now we're down 70, 73 and we're down right from the get-go and we've got about 25 of the dow 30 in the red. how about the s&p 500. what's that doing? it's down but not as much percentage wise as the dow, and the nasdac composite what's that doing? down a tiny fraction, if at all, and down three points as we speak, still way, way above the 9,000 level and individual stock s making news and going places, look at that. tesla 459.37 right now, up $7

and it just delivered their first cars made in china. and look at the luxury carmaker james bond's car i believe, and it's down 16%, $6 a share. not a very rosey forecast and when you do that the stock takes a hit and remember that stocks had a 200-point turnaround yesterday. we were down, and susan and i, and ash are were saying wait a minute, we're going to open, we're going to close higher and we did. ashley: yes. stuart: so mike, i think the three of us here are in the situation by saying this market just wants to go up. >> absolutely the market does want to go up and the reason why stuart is that aside from the geopolitical headlines that we are looking past, the story in the u.s. is growth. it's consumers, it's spending a lot of money. it's strong earnings coming in and if you bet against this market recently, you've lost. so there's a lot, remember we talked about it back in early december live on the air stuart. a lot of money on the sidelines

people waiting for the china deal to fall apart or the main pullback, the recession that was coming so a lot of cash was on the sidelines there that cash is being put to work right now. any drop, moneys coming in. stuart: that's interesting, because we've got a drop right now. the dow is up 70 odd points that could be a couple of stocks which are taking the dow down, just a couple of big points. ashley: oil too is moving lower today. stuart: that's right the oil companies will be taking it. so we're not 91 points down on the dow in the first couple of minutes worth of business and you expect some buying on this dip. >> absolutely. stuart: all right goldman sachs says gold is the best way to protect your portfolio at times like this. you don't agree with that do you >> i don't agree, stuart because there's always some sort of potential conflict out think in the world and to go out there and buy gold, gold has under performed the market. i'd rather buy growth and invest for growth and anyone at home who can trade gold successfully, good luck to them.

i can't. so i would just stay away from gold. i think using gold as a hedge with something that worked 40 or 50 years ago i don't believe it works now. stuart: the way to get into gold the easiest way is gld. yes. stuart: goldmining shares. the other way, which a lot of people do use is to go and buy the one ounce and half ounce. >> you can buy paper gold too. paper gold is very transferable so that's obviously something that they use to play gold as well. stuart: what's paper gold? >> what is paper gold? so it's basically gold that's been melted into paper. so i own it. i mean, there's pieces of it. stuart: really? yes. stuart: i don't know that. i've not seen paper gold. >> really? stuart: and i'm a lot older than you are. >> wow. stuart: i like the sound of it. ashley: yeah that is interesting i bought it in 1800 though when i thought ben b was coming in during the helicopter money so i'm cheering it on, if it gets

backup maybe i'll sell some paper. stuart: someone like me should not be admitting i don't know what paper gold is. i shouldn't be saying that. all right let's wrap this up with four minutes into the session dow industrials are down 70 points now, and the biggest percentage loser amongst the dow 30 is chevron, with the price of oil is down, chevron is a dow stock and that's helping with the 60 point loss now, for the dow. all-time high for tesla, you're looking at it, $460 a share, just made their first car deliveries, in china, but mike murphy you have never owned tesla and you never will and you've missed it. >> absolutely missed it and you have to give credit to elon musk , there's been a lot of people betting against him. i don't know how you value this company but i equate tesla, stuart to netflix. if you want to, a lot of people are betting against netflix that they had too much competition coming in, but they've been able to succeed thus far. stuart: on your screen, elon

musk is dancing at the shanghai factory when the first car was delivered. i think the man is entitled to dance. i take my hat off to him. >> absolutely up another 2% today he's dancing even more right now because he still owns a large percentage of this company, so good for him. huge win for him. huge innovation for the united states of america, great win for shareholders, congrats if you own the stock. >> and he killed the shorts too they lost around $8 billion last year, $700 million in the first two days of this year, so, you know, i guess he got what he wanted in the end, which is pride, and ego. >> one thing if you don't own tesla right now i would not look out at an all-time high on the stock and say i'm afraid to miss this let me go out and buy it. stuart: i take your point on that one for sure. and how about disney? barclays the investment firm says that disney's streaming business, although it's only what a couple of months old, is worth $100 billion. i don't know where they get that number from, it's a two-month

old business what's going on? >> i guess they are looking out at next year and what can be generated from the disney stream ing business but i'll tell you this stuart if netflix is valued properly here disney has a lot of room to run. disney will take some market share and disney will be able to monetize the user a lot more than netflix can, so at this point, at $260 billion market cap on disney for the overall company, i think that there's a lot of room to the upside. >> i think barclays is noticing that netflix is worth $144 billion and they have 130 million subscribers around the world, so i think they are probably taking that valuation and extrapolating it to the value of disney plus. stuart: couple years ago when streaming was first starting to be mentioned, whoever thought it was going to become a business of this size and global magnitude? i certainly, that's another one i missed. ashley: [laughter] stuart: amazon, this again, i don't understand this. >> [laughter] stuart: susan is going to explain it. amazon wants to get alexa into your car. now just give me an example.

i've gotta lex a sitting there. what do i do? >> well alexa will be in your car so think when you're driving you're just talking to alexa in your car the whole time anyway helping you with the weather system and if you have to drop-off because you need gas in the future, if you're at an exxon or mobile gas station, after you pump up, you can just say alexa, pay for gas and it does that automatically for you. you don't even have to walk in, take out your credit card, it's all automated, and that's just one part though, voice activation, but also, tv for future entertainment in case you need it in your electric cars that amazon has also invested in , and echo auto devices as well, so physical devices that will be input into your car. stuart: i'm moving on. i just have to move on. okay? there's a lot going on, with carlos gsohn, japan asking lebanon for help and there's an arrest warrant out for his wife. so what's the significance of that?

ashley: carol, they're charging her with purdy jury saying she gave false testimony to a court in tokyo in her husband's case about the transfer of money from one company to another and she's also denied knowing various people, and/or meeting them and japan says those statements were false as well. no response from carol ghosn, and of course we're awaiting the press conference tomorrow in lebanon by carlos ghosn, which will be really interesting because he has evidence of a coo launched against him and documents he has should be very very interesting. stuart: that's at 8:00 eastern time tomorrow morning correct? ashley: correct. stuart: that is the press conference that will be very interesting. facebook getting ready to remove deep fake videos ahead of the 2020 election, which is now what , 10 months away. how did they tell real from fake >> very hard. that's why they're trying to get rid of them, so that's ones manipulated by using advanced tools, and an example of that

being the nancy pelosi video that was released last year where she was seen to be slurring her words. stuart: that was fake. >> definitely and one about mark zuckerberg saying look what's on your platforms and that's why they are trying to remove it right now, it's very hard to decipher, but they are trying their best especially ahead of the 2020 elections, and trying to get ahead of that because they don't want to be i guess that platform for misinformation and swing votes. stuart: are they saying like any deep state is out? >> yes. stuart: because i can imagine that being a form of humor. not political, but just humor. >> it could be for sure but i think what's going to have to at some point stuart we'll need common sense where you the consumer have to be able to make some judgment somewhat out there , so facebook won't be able to police everything that's out there because like you say, some of it may have negative connotations or negative intent. other might be just to get a point across or do something funny, so the consumer will have to know, if i listen to the stuart varney show i know i'm

getting true real news and if i'm listening to something else maybe i'm not. stuart: okay i'll run with that. [laughter] i'll definitely run with it mike murphy thank you very much indeed. thanks everyone. it is 9:40 the time when we wrap everything up and say where the market is. down 93 points, that is one- third of 1% down, but i always say this. look at the level, 28, 600 the market is still shrugging after the killing of soleimani. the pentagon showing a full show of strength. 52 fully-armed f-35 fighter jets taking off from a base in utah. we'll discuss whether this is sending a message. ashley: oh, yeah. stuart: to the iranians surely. those are war-fighting machines. we're still waiting for secretary of state pompeo to address the media. we'll bring him to you, live, as soon as he steps to the podium. that will be around 10:00 eastern. the consumer electronics show kicks off in vegas and we're

there, live with some of the cool gadgets they are described as and we'll show them to you in just a moment.

stuart: dow industrials after 13 minutes worth of business are now down 111 points. we've dropped below 28, 600. the consumer electronics show kicking off in vegas, and curt k nudson is there for us and right from the get-go the power vision, power egg x. go. >> [laughter] this is one of the coolest drone s i've seen, and it's your own personal artificial intelligence drone that essentially you're going to launch and it recognizes your face and it's going to pursue you, so let's say that you take

your kid to the soccer game. you launch it, and it will follow your kid from that perspective and you will be the parent with the very best game footage of that. if you're doing a cooking demo on the inside, you don't want to use a waterproof one just a regular one that will then also follow you as you do your cooking demo, as if you had a whole crew of cameras around there so it's going to light up some more clever videos. stuart: but wait a minute it could be used for malitia purposes as well could it not? >> yeah not this one. this is not the kind that carries a payload. this is more of a camera that happens to fly. you wouldn't think about the danger, no, you've already got the spying machines out there. there's plenty of drones that have cameras that you can this is about getting outstanding 4 k video of your family. stuart: okay, i want to hear about this skinny tv. how skinny is it? >> [laughter] so a lot of bets with it so 8-k is what everybody is talking

about as the next standard for 2020, and ces really founded on the debut of television. you're looking at the samsung 2- 950. look at the edge of that thing. it is just 2-millimeters so the bezel, you don't even see it. it's almost invisible when you mount that tv, so you just see the picture. now, show up in person out here in las vegas, turn up the volume on that. its got virtual 5.1 surround sound, and you're wondering how in the heck did they get that to come out of that piece of glass, so some big advancements on how thin this stuff is going and also just how smart its become to take say older bad-looking video, and use ai inside of the samsung system to upgrade it to 8-k, so they enhance the video, so you end up with just a spectacular life-like true-to- life picture. stuart: not too long ago you were sort of looking at the big

products for the 2020s and you said bendable, foldable screens. would that samsung -- >> that's for the decade. no you're not going to see that hit the consumer market yet. this one, no. that's not this year. that's not that format. what they're trying to say is this is our big play for 2020 in the consumer market, but what you and i were talking around the holidays as we predict what's happening for the decade you will see bendable screens coming just not yet. stuart: can't wait. curt thanks for joining us. i'm sure you'll be on the network throughout the day, with the gadgets and we look forward to it thanks curt. we have the nfl, this is an interesting story. the nfl is cracking down on what's called google pirate streaming, this is ahead of the super bowl. explain. ashley: this is in the uk in particular, you go to the uk, you put in google and you look for nfl streaming, there are a number of sites out there where you can illegally get access to the nfl. they've been pirated through

these sites so google has been notified by the league, and sent notices to remove these sites. they used the vpn, it's a virtual private network and it says that the computing devices are directly connected to the private network but they're not. they are pirating it. no comment yet from google but there is a 10 or 11 sites now in the uk and this is big money. let's be honest. stuart: oh, you pay for this? ashley: no the nfl is losing money because of the amount of the charges cbs, fox, nbc, they all pay roughly $3 billion a year for the nfl, so if you have private sites out there, where people in the uk can watch and pay a minimal amount to the website that you sign up for, it's a no-go so google obviously is trying to track down these sites. stuart: okay, u.s. news and world reports out with the top jobs for the 2020. some of them, the best-paying jobs are in the healthcare field tell me more. >> right number one, anesthesiologists, you make $267,000 a year, i was surprised

they make more as an than a surgeon does, because that comes in as number two, 2 55,000, you'd think they make more because they have life and death in their hands right? oral and maxillofacial surgeons make 242, gynecologists 238, orthodontists 225, and the rest, if you go down the list, it looks like petroleum engineers make 15 6,000 dollars, and financial managers $146,000, and how they came up with this list was they were looking for high salaries, ample open positions and opportunities for promotion, but i would say none of this compares to the host of varney & company. stuart: oh, you're right. quite rightly so. >> yes, there you go. stuart: i'm going to move on from that there. check the market now we're down 125 points, and we've got, i guess we're looking now at about 20-odd of the dow 30 are in the

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stuart: couple markets we should pay attention to the price of oil down today, it moved up after the soleimani killing it's down to $62 a barrel and the price of gold moved pretty close to $1,600 an ounce after the soleimani killing, and it's at right now 15.71 per ounce. our guest says president trump needs to address the problems of the middle class to win in 2020 and economist peter maurici is with us. okay, peter i've read your stuff and you're saying the big problem, a big problem for the president is outstanding student debt. and you think he should do something about it. surely, you're not suggesting a bail-out are you? >> absolutely a lot of these young people were duped by colleges and private schools into borrowing money to take courses that led no place. it's one thing to talk about holding the varney's responsible but at the age of 50 as you are, you decide to take a mortgage,

but 18-year-olds being hustled by admissions counselors, parent s that don't necessarily have a lot of background, there's been a lot of flim flam here and the federal government has enabled it so we need a federal solution. stuart: that would be a taxpayer bailout or can't you get the money out of colleges that duped the students as you say? that's what i'd like to do a lot of these colleges and universities have expanded dramatically thanks to the huge tuition increases they've taken. they've added lots and lots of staff which they could get rid of and they have lots of buildings and land and so forth, they could mortgage to help enable it. i think that the universities should be called to account for fraud. now, we can't prosecute them for fraud literally, but i think we could bring tort suits and so forth. i think it's time that we do two things. get the universities to lower their tuitions and get lienor, faster and frankly, make faculty work harder too, and i think that it's time that we do something about the students

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stuart: we got a big hour coming up for you. first off secretary of state mike pompeo is about to hold a briefing expected of course to be about the iran situation. whatever he says could move the market. you will hear what he has got to say. first we got reading on two areas. first of all reading on service sector of the economy. have we got that? ashley: we do. came in at 57.2. anything above 50 is expansion. much better, very healthy number. i have to be honest with you. that is a good sign. the services sector showing some nice strength. stuart: factory orders, do we have the number? >> not a good number we had ism

coming in weakest in 10 years. stuart: ism, that was manufacturing? susan: correct. stuart: not today's service sector? susan: in conjunction with the factory orders number down in december. stuart: services good. factory orders not so good. look at the dow. we came back a little bit. we were down over 100 points. then we come back to minus 88 as we speak. here is the backdrop to the pompeo news conference about to begin. the pentagon plans to send b-52 bombers and more troops to the middle east. the air force a raids f-35 lined up, close formation. that is he will grant walk on left-hand side of the screen. that took place at utah yesterday. they eventually took off fully armed. mass protests in iran and iraq. the crowds calling for revenge

for the killing of qassem soleimani. dozens killed in a stampede in tehran. the latest number from the iranian media there, it is over 40 dead in that stampede. the media here, absolutely jam-packed full of war talk. editorial writers taking on president trump, taking on him personally. he is a bully says "the new york times" paul krugman. bernie sanders says mr. trump is like putin, assassinating dissidents. confrontation on all fronts. trump versus iran. democrats versus trump. as we said moments from now, secretary of state mike pompeo forming a statement on iran. we will take you there, take you to that podium when he begins to speak. we have coverage in advance for you. we have with us van hipp. are we there? van hipp, let me see you there. van, you're a military kind of

guy. american defense international chair. that is who you are. i was intrigued at that elephant walk with all those f-35 as taking off fully armed, that is sending clear message to the iranians, isn't it? >> big time message. look what president trump has done last few days to preposition assets in case he has to use them. dope -- don't forget the president showed great restraint. after we took out qassem soleimani last week, i'm quoting the president, i took action to stop a war, not start a war. stuart: but the effect is very clear. we v got the power. we have got the clout and president says we will use it? >> he is keeping heat up. he wants ayatollah, his henchmen who runner ran to feel the heat. this president to this point, stuart, i believe made all the right moves for all the right

reasons. scrapping the deal, everything he has done to this point i believe has been spot on. stuart: stay there, please, van. i will move on to coverage of the market with market watcher jim awad sitting next to me here in new york, waiting for mike pompeo. this is statement. i'm making this. in my opinion investors believe iran will not hurt america's economy, and will not raise the price of oil significantly. >> i think odds are very high that you're right on that. they have to do something to appease their base and to show that they're not impotent but i think they know that, it's a chess game. they don't want to do anything that will provoke the united states in a major way. also don't forget their goal is to get the united states out of the middle east and by doing something too dramatic they would only increase american presence in the middle east. i think markets, investors are correctly assuming this will come and go and the u.s. economy will continue as it were.

stuart: mike pompeo is speaking. we'll listen. >> friend of mine i served alongside he passed away this week, leaving lovely wife and family. want to express my condolences to him. his service was noble as member of congress. we worked together on pro-life issues in congress. if you have questions about the middle east and iraq i will certainly take my questions today. i want to offer my condolence to the people of australia for the traffic loss of life and property in the devastating wildfires across the region. america's thought and prayers are with the victims and families, emergency services personnel putting them in harm's way. same goes for dozens of u.s. firefighting personnel standing side by side with the australian friends fighting flames together. as i was in sydney this past summer we have truly unbreakable alliance. they're great friend. we're glad to help aussies in this time of need. staying in asia, we noted

appointment of the new head of the hong kong chinese central government liaison office. he expressed hopes that hong kong will return to the quote, right path, end of quote. the right path as i said before is for the chinese communist party to honor its commitments made to hong kong in the sino british joint declaration filed at the united nations. the commitment guaranties the territory's independent rule of law and freedoms that the chinese living on the mainland unfortunately do not enjoy. that this will continue to work with hong kong and chinese communist officials to protect human right and fundamental freedoms of hong kong and promote hong kong high degree of autonomy. in afghanistan, there is aspect of that conflict that deserves more attention and is islamic republic of iran's involvement there. iran refused to join the regional and international consensus for peace and is in fact today actively working to undermine the peace process by

continuing it long global effort to support militant groups there. most people know about iran's proxy networks in the arab world but the regime has a relationship with the taliban and related groups such as haqqanis, tora bora, and moolah dadula group. the taliban's entanglement in iran's dirty work will only harm the afghanistan peace process. a couple of items here in the hemisphere. in venezuela i want to thank an congratulate juan guaido as re-election of venezuela national assembly, a legitimate re-election by quorum of 100 deputies. maduro regime of campaign arrests intimidation, bribery could not derail venezuelan democracy or use its military forces to block the national assembly from accessing the parliament building. i'm proud of how the political parties came together to support guaido's re-election.

we will continue to support the guaido and recognize venezuela people. we support the venezuelan people because we believe the western hemisphere should be a hemisphere with freedom everywhere. i also want to highlight the work of the oas which has been an instrumental tool in moving the region in that direction. it is example of truly outstanding effective multilateralism. secretary-general is the leader we need for the oas to continue protect tiffly addressing challenges in the region, upholding democracy, upholding human rates and fostering economic developments. i have more to say about the oas and upcoming form in the few weeks. i want to commend representativr their statement where they expressed deep concern and inhumane conditions where uyghur

muslims in china are experiencing. the chinese communist party has been committing mass human rights violations against wee gurs, cast sacks and other muslims held in detention. --. the arab league to deannounce the chinese economist part brutal treatment of uyghurs. moving to europe. the prime minister i will welcome him at the white house alongside president trump. i also want to announce that our undersecretary for political affairs david hale will travel to brussels. we'll have conversations with 28 european counterparts this is recounter meeting that happens every six months. this particular gather something important because it immediately precedes foreign ministerial on iran and has been scheduled.

shows close cooperation with our european partners on issues of mutual concern. i'm sure while david is there the issue of iran and iraq will feature problem menially in their conversations and they will have the opportunity to talk about syria, north korea and china as well. finally one more personnel matter. i want to thank ambassador john bass who i am come to know in time of service as director of the central intelligence agency and secretary of state. his go year service in kabul was remarkable. that is one of the most important missions. ambassador bass is respective thinker, a man of incredible integrity. he helped the country move forward to brighter, peaceful future for afghan people. i want to welcome new 11 ambassadors and two ambassadors at large confirmed since the end of november, including ambassador sullivan who will head to russia not too long. we're glad they're getting out to the field and hope to have a few more follow them out there.

happy to take a few questions. >> matt. >> happy new year, mr. secretary. >> hello matt. >> along with the new year i have 2020 questions to ask you, i will pare them down for the sake of brevity. there continues to be questions about the nature of intelligence that led to the strike that killed general soleimani. can you be a at all more specific how imminent this was, what exactly it was? secondly why not allow foreign minister zarif to come to the u.n. to speak to the security council? lastly, the situation in iran, contributed at all to your decision not to run for the senate in kansas. thanks. >> thank you. last one is easy. i said the same thing yesterday that i said for months. no real news there. i said i'm going to save as secretary of state as long as president trump shall have me. so, no. you can accuse me of being inconsistent but not on that

one. second, you know, we don't comment on visa matters. those traveling to here to the united states on visas. i can't add much more to the issue of foreign minister zarif travel to the united states. i will say only this. we will always comply with the obligations unu.n. requirements and headquarters agreement and we will do so in it particular instance and more broadly every day. finally there has been much made about this question of intelligence and imminence. i answered it multiple times on sunday. i'm happy to walk through it again. anytime a president makes a decision of this magnitude there are multiple pieces of information, that come before us. we presented that to him in all the broad detail. gave hem the best detail from the intelligence community. from those that have teams in the field. we evaluated relevant risks and opportunity we thought might present itself at some point. we could see clearly not only had soleimani done all of the

things we recounted, right? hundreds of thousands of massacred in syria, enormous destruction of countries like lebanon and iraq where they denied them sovereignty and iranians really denied people in the two countries what it is they want. sovereignty, independence and freedom. this is all soleimani's handiwork. we watched continuing of the terror campaign in the region. we know what happened at end of last year in december, ultimately to the death of an american, if you look for imminence, you need no further than look to days led up for the strike taken against soleimani. you in addition to that have we could clearly see continuing efforts on behalf of this terrorist to buildout a network of campaign activities that were going to lead potentially to the death of many more americans. so right decision, we got it right. the department of defense did excellent work and the president had a entirely legal, appropriate and a basis as well as a decision that fit perfectly

within our strategy and how to counter threat of malign activity of iran more broadly. >> kira. >> thank you. mr. secretary. >> yes, ma'am. >> two questions if you don't mind. iran's foreign affairs minister zarif granted in an interview saying sole sole was -- soleimani was on a diplomatic visit to iraq. that the u.s. strike was state terrorism. that president trump is prepared to commit war crimes and iranians are enraged. the first question i would like reaction to that. he is question, president trump indicated iran's cultural sites could be targeted. is that true? are they on the target list? if so do you consider that a war crime? >> so, zarif's statement, his first statement that soleimani was traveling to baghdad on a diplomatic mission, anybody here believe that? is there any history that would

indicate it was remotely possible that this kind, gentleman this, diplomat of great order, qassem soleimani had traveled to baghdad for the idea of conducting a peace mission? made you reporters laugh this morning. that is fantastic. we know that wasn't true. we not only know the history we know in that moment that is not true. zarif is a propogandist in the first order. most of what you suggested in his text message or email or message that you laid out there was iranian propaganda. this is not new. we heard the same lies before. it is fundamentally false. he was not there on a diplomatic mission to resolve a problem. there is story that he was there representing a saudi peace deal. i spoke to my saudi counterparts. i will leave it to them the contents of may be. i assure you they that he was not to for some agreement that would reduce or reduce risk of

lives of americans when he was on trip. your last piece about cultural sites. i said on sunday. reiterate it again, every target being reviewed, every effort always made will be conducted inside of the international laws of war. i seen it. i worked on this project. i'm very confident of that. >> thank you. >> yes, sir. >> it is an election year and you're now facing two nuclear-related crises in, with iran and are you optimistic about solving either of those without blowing up so to speak and inopportune moments. iran front, breakout time, when you came into office considered about a year. is it now longer or shorter? >> i will leave it to the intelligence team to talk to but the details of iran's breakout time for the moment but president trump could not be

more clear. on our watch iran will not get a nuclear weapon. as we came into office, iran was on a pathway that provided by the nuclear deal which clearly gave emthis opportunity to have those nuclear weapons. we won't let that happen. as for the first question which was more broadly, what president trump laid out in his national security strategy with respect to both north korea and iran is the plan we executed. the strategy we executed for this past three years. we have put iran in a place it has never been before where they had to make some very difficult choices, choices how to pay for and underwrite their proxy militias around the region. whether and how to buildout the missile program. this is a flip from eight years before. it is not political. previous administration made a different choice. they chose to underwrite and appease. we chosen to confront and contain. those are different strategies. we believe ours is successful and we ultimately believe it will be successful making iran behave like a normal nation.

deny the capacity to buildout the nuclear program, not only threaten americans and our lives to keep americans safe which is your mission set, to enhance capabilities throughout the middle east that is the case. north korea you asked about, we are still hopeful we will be able to head down a path. i was hear with you all in december sometime when there was lots of talk what might happen at end of the year. we're not seeing that yet. we still remain engaged and hopeful we could have a conversation about how to get the denuclearization that president kim promised to president trump in 2018. take one more. >> james. >> thank you very much, mr. secretary. two quick things on the soleimani strike. since the trump administration withdrew the united states from the iran nuclear deal about two years ago or so, the trump administration has said repeatedly it is pursuing against iran a maximum pressure campaign. first question, the soleimani

operation, was that part of the maximum pressure campaign? >> do you have a second one? >> we'll come back to it. >> ask them both i will tackle them both. >> to your knowledge was any legal counsel in the executive branch consulted for his or her input surrounding legal aspects of the strike prior to its execution? >> i will leave to others to comment on that but i can say as pattern and practice i have never seen this administration engage in activity of this nature without a thorough and complete legal review of what the bases would be if the president were to take a series of decisions. often lawyers review all the options being presented to the president of the united states in advance of them being presented such that every option that is presented to him has been fully vetted through the legal process. i'm confident that was case here although i don't have specific knowledge of that. i'm confident that was, that was the case. second, you asked about the scope of the strategy and the maximum pressure campaign that

we've had in place. it has a diplomatic component, it has had a economic component and it has had a military component and what you have seen over the course of these past, may 2018 when we withdrew from the iran nuclear deal, you have seen us execute that enormous vigor and energy. you've seen it diplomatically. we built out coalitions with israelis and gulf states. on missile file and terror file with your european partners as well. not just e-3. look at may last year. look at the statement made in warsaw. a united statement centering the instability in the middle east on the islamic republic of iran. coalition now in straits of hormuz, diplomatically isolated the iranian regime. second economically we've all seen the sanctions put in place. it is over some thousand sanctions. we watch the regime figure how

the how to make it through 2020. they have a budget fall short of a significant amount in 2020 is direct result of pressure we put on the regime. you saw not just over the last week but the last year you've seen our security component to this. you've seen us reinforce allies in the region insuring emirates and saudis all others were prepared for what might happen if iran sided to make choices bad for the iranian people. you saw more tactically, just these last few days, the president's response when the iranians made a bad cities to kill an american. we hope they won't make another bad decision like that one. >> let me be clear, the soleimani strike was part of the administration's maximum pressure campaign and going forward the iranians should should understand as they develop their calculus, similar actions such as the soleimani strike could well continue to be a feature of this maximum pressure campaign? >> i think president has been unambiguous in his both remarks

he made down in florida as well as the tweets you put out about the seriousness which we take this. the risk attendant we are deeply aware of and the preparations we made to prevent those risks as well as our determination, in the event that the iranians make another bad choice the president will respond in the way he did last week which was decisive, serious and messaged iran about the constraints that we're going to place on that regime so that it doesn't continue to put american lives at risk. in the end our iran policy is about protecting and defending the homeland, securing american lives. i know that the efforts that we have taken not only last week with the strike against soleimani but strategy we've employed has saved american lives. i'm highly cost of that. take one more. andrea, yes, ma'am. how are you. >> thank you very much. a question about the issue of cultural sites because the president said on air force one coming back after you had you had been on the sunday talk

shows, they're allowed to kill our people, allowed to torture and maim our people, they're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people, we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites? it does not work that way. secretary esper made it clear would not order a to hit a cultural site, would be a war crime. would you also push back in your advice in your role. >> you're not really wondering, andrea. you're not really wondering. i was unambiguous on sunday. it is completely consistent with what the president said. the we will take every action we take will be consistent with the international rule of law and, the american people can rest assured that is the case. let me tell you who has done damage to the persian culture. it is not the united states of america. it is ayatollah. if you want to look who has denied religious freedom, if you want to know who has denied the persian culture riched in steep and history and intellect and they denied the capacity for

that culture to continue. look at holidays around cyrus, they have not permitted people to celebrate. they have not allowed people they killed, that qassem soleimani killed, they have not been allowed to mourn family members. the real risk to persian culture does not come from the united states of america. that is the, there is no mistake about that. thank you all. everybody have a good day. [shouting questions] stuart: secretary of state answering questions from the media directly about the iran, killing of qassem soleimani. here is the point that i made. mr. pompeo was asked was soleimani on a diplomatic mission as some have suggested? he laughed at that and challenged his audience, said, does anybody believe he was on a diplomatic mission. he turned it into a joke, laughed at it. secondly he was asked, were legal experts consulted in advance of the killing? he responded, there is always a

thorough and complete legal review of all operations. he was asked, he stated very clearly, we expect to be successful and make iran behave in, as a responsible nation. he expects success at the end of this long process with iran. finally, he was suggested, made it clear statement, if iran continues to make bad choices, the president will continue to respond as he has. pretty clean cut i would say. we have experts joining us now to take us through this. first of all, my colleague here, jim awad. >> yeah. stuart: i don't think he said anything which moved market. we stated down 80 or 90 point? >> no there was nothing new of that. it was articulate presentation of the administration case. let me give you the bottom line. the market hates uncertainty will be hampered somewhat until we figure out what the iranian response is, when they close the books on 2020, the movement of

the market will be dependent on the economy, not this iran situation. stuart: got it. the market has not in fact moved at all. we're down 98 points. jim, thank you very much. >> pleasure. stuart: van hipp, on the military side of things, did secretary of state pompeo say anything that changed the military calculation here? >> not at all. keeps the iranians guessing. i got to tell you, this country, you saw what he did, how he handled it. we're fortunate to have secretary of state and breadth and depth of mike pompeo at this time. i for one am glad he is not running for senate in the kansas. this is the most foreign complicated landscape in my lifetime. thank god we have someone like mike pompeo in there at this time. stuart: van hipp, we appreciate it. next on, kelly sadler on the republican side of things. kelly, thanks for joining us this morning. i know you heard what mike pompeo had to say. the president and pompeo are

being accused of warmongering essentially. what do you make of pompeo's response, his tone? what do you make of it? >> i thought he was very clear and what he clearly stated the previous administration's strategy towards iran was to underwrite and appease whereas this administration's policy towards iran is to confront and contain. that is it. and that is what a lot of these washington pundits seem to be missing. we are, we have a goal of peace through strength and that weakness is provocation and we saw that in the last administration, sending them pallets of cash, lifting sanctions. basically underwriting terrorism within the middle east. this administration has been very clear, and this president has been very reserved in his actions. he has throttled them with sanctions but said, clearly stated, do not come after u.s. personnel or u.s. installations. what did they do? they did and they killed a u.s. contractor.

so the president's reaction was very consistent it, was very reciprocal. he did what he said he was going to do, he means what he said. he has been clear throughout, this confrontation with iran. stuart: got it. kelly sadler and all. thanks for joining us on most important day. appreciate it. thank you very much. check the big board. 10:30 eastern, during the pompeo press conference the dow was down 70 or 80 points. as soon as it was over we dropped down minus 100 points. i wouldn't say that is a major market impact by any means. i don't think mr. pompeo say anything which really moved the market. but as of right now, we're down 100. couple of individual stocks worth mentioning looking at today, especially tesla. new all-time high. earlier this morning hit $460 a share. 458.08 right now. in a moment you will see elon musk dancing.

there he goes. that was at the shanghai factory after his chinese-made tesla made their first appearance. i think the man is entirely justified in dancing. what he pulled off was really something remarkable. ashley: go for it. stuart: bring in ryan battle, seen core fellow at drucker school of management. that is important. ryan, how would you judge from management standpoint, elon musk? i frankly take my hat off to the guy. what he has done in my opinion was remarkable. what say you? >> he is dancing to the bank as you can see right now in china. what he has done, he has taken, he has taken this idea that, wasn't even fathomable. he said mentioned multiple times that cannot even work. you and i will have to dance next time in the studio. management strategy perspective. he has changed this thing global. he saw opportune in the u.s. market. he has taken -- this is a huge

day for tesla. this is something that he has been wanting to do. now the chinese market, his visit there is so important for that market because it builds what tesla wants to do in that brand, to be able to build their brand. made in china is what the rhetoric they're using for tesla. he strategically made the product which was a car in essence initially, to batter powered where everyone's global product. pretty impressive what he has done. this is a need. he needed this to launch well for the shareholders and potential for tesla. stuart: right. stay there for a moment, please. i want to deal with another tech issue, a tech theme i should say i want to bring in our own liz claman at consumer electronics show in vegas. liz, why is impossible foods at the consumer electronics show? liz: huge question. why there would be a food

company at this show? they are the very first, stuart, to have the coveted spot of a food company here where there are 4500 different exhibitors, all technology, consumer. viva las vegas. this is the world's largest consumer show here at ces. impossible foods was granted the space the first time last year. this is where they chose to unavailable the impossible burger 2.0. they were handing out, i would say 12,000 of them. as we go under the arch here, you ask yourself why did they want to get in front of this audience? because they consider themselves, i know we're getting into strange wework territory claiming they're a technology company, they are the melding of science and nature. we have a fox business big interview at 3:00 p.m. eastern with pat brown. he is such a fascinating guy, stuart. he is pediatrician, biochem it, md at stanford. he said i want to solve the

issue of making something that taste like meat, using exact molecules that make meat so yummy but making it plant based. their coming back year two, with impossible pork sliders. we got him. this will be fascinating. among everything else, with very foldable laptops. foldable phones. 8-ktvs and so far. flying cars of wheel show that to you with "cavuto: coast to coast." stuart: tell me real fast, tell me about the raiders new stadium in las vegas. you're going there, aren't you? >> we already went. we are the first television crew outside of roger goodell of the nfl who was able to tour this right on site. it is at the opposite end of the las vegas strip. it is arguably the biggest technology story of 2020. it is called allegiant stadium. the oakland-l.a., now las vegas

raiders will play there. sort of the ghost of al davis and son mark davis will bring it here. it will be the most connected stadium on planet earth. they now told me, i thought this was so interesting, stuart. they look at social media, connective experience of games, just another utility, like water, gas and heat. if you don't have that, you're not really giving people what they want in this day and age. at 3:00 p.m. eastern, we will give you the full tour with pat easier cox communications who is wiring it the whole way through. stuart: thanks very much, liz. we'll see you later. i will repeat this, 3:00 p.m. eastern on the fox business network, more from the consumer electronic show, including beyond meat pork sliders. can't wait. thank you very much, liz. we'll see you later. ryan patel, come back in again please. samsung unveiled a robot-like ball that comes with a camera,

rolls around the home, called ballie. looks like a softball. do you know anything about this? can you tell us what this thing is for? >> yeah. i mean, if you think about "star wars," the droid, it is pretty much, it will talk to the rest of actual consumer products inside of the house smart home. it can video watch you exercising. it picks up trash at same time. has a camera, different angles. it is new edge of what, if you think about the robot of cleaning your home, this is kind of an upgrade of that, to be interconnected to all the smart home devices. mind you -- it is. stuart: i'm not a technology kind of guy. a ball rolling around recording what i'm doing doesn't make it for me. ryan hold on a second, something else in the technology field i'm dying to try to understand. that is, alexa coming to your

car, and paying for gas. do it again. susan: i'm dying trying to explain this to you. stuart: keep trying. susan: it's hard. it's hard. alexa, do you know what alexa speakers are? stuart: i do. susan: alexa controls experiences are? stuart: yes. susan: future focusing on the car and in the home now. f-150 pickup in the future, if you stop off at a gas station for instance to fill up the gas tank instead of paying with the credit card, you hop back into the car, alexa pay for gas. you have to do it for you. stuart: i don't have to get out of the car? susan: you have to get out of the car. ashley: pump it for you? susan: go to valet service? regardless, you maybe get fire tv entertainment visuals and video as well. stuart: in new jersey you cannot pump your own gas, only state in the nation you can't pump your own gas. i digress clearly here.

ryan, what is this about alexa in the shower? are you kidding me? >> what? no, you're going to love this. i know you're going to love this you get up so early in the morning. i heard your work ethic. you get up in the shower, you play miracles, i'm a love machine in the morning. get your body going. you will be there. i don't need those images. stuart: no you don't. >> alexa from a technology perspective its progress shun. if you ask me three years ago what i talk to alexa about the weather my phone does that already. we're being grained into the new technology world we're expecting that. it seems like kohler they are integrating this. this is innovation perspective. for alexas feels you need to talk to alexa in the shower, car, gas station.

i know you use shower version of it. this is pretty good upgrade. stuart: you know nothing of the sort, ryan patel. your time is up. thanks for joining you. it is interesting stuff. ryan patel, everyone. still on amazon, now we talk about ring, doorbell ring device. it is getting a lot of attention because of hacks. first of all, do you remember this? >> who is that? >> i'm your best friend. i'm santa claus. >> mommy! >> i'm santa claus. don't you want to be my best friend? stuart: that is just rotten video. a 8-year-old girl. somebody hacked into the camera in her board bedroom. that is just aweful. hillary vaughn, how to protect

your home from hackers. what have you got, hillary? reporter: we talked to a security expert shows us first-hand how that ring camera was actually hacked into, and walked us through step by step. it only took five minutes. >> what we get then is something that looks like this. so we started running all of the different tools. you can see we found all of the open, exposed cameras. we found a working ring account. so what we do now, we copy and paste those credentials back into the ring site. what you will see, we'll be able to access an account that was under our control but this is actually how it happens. we put the user name in. now we put the password in. what you will see, now we have success there is not two factor authentication on there. i take same user name and password, put it into my app. that is how the hackers were able to open up the ring camera. reporter: stuart the best way to protect yourself, change your password if you're notified that your information has been part of a data breach, because that

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stuart: dow industrials down 87 points. no real reaction to what secretary of state pompeo had to say about iran earlier today. he did not move the market. let's get to domestic politics. we're less than a month away from the iowa politics. mike bloomberg is not worried

about that at all. he hired, reported 500 staffers in 30 states. he is moving up in the polls. look who is here. doug schoen, who is bloomberg pollster. you are employed by the man. >> i am indeed. stuart: are you doing polls for him? >> on a regular basis. stuart: what is the strategy here? he will not be in the caucuses or in new hampshire. what is the strategy? >> the strategy is, looks like it could well work out, the first four caucuses will be divided. bernie sanders has a lead in iowa. he is tied in new hampshire. biden's ahead in nevada and south carolina. so if we get a split result as we might, super tuesday we're 40% of the tell gates are selected as -- delegates are selected as 4% in the first four contests could give mike bloomberg the opening he is looking for. stuart: he is going to super tuesday. >> absolutely. stuart: that is the whole ball of wax. >> a whole ball of wax. stuart: bombshell exploding on

super sues, and he spent $166 million so far. >> it is expensive to buy media time in this country. he is getting himself known. so yes. stuart: he is abeing adieused of buying the nomination. >> he has to get known. every penny he is spending himself. no special interests. he is doing what he thinks is right with his money trying to promote political change. stuart: is he buying delegates at the convention? >> that is a criminal offense. mike bloomberg is a very honest man. stuart: will he use his money to influence the tell -- delegates. you can twist arms with money. >> i worked for him 22 years. i have never seen him use resources other than by the book. stuart: sure. >> he is not a wheeler dealer politician. stuart: i'm not implying that at all. >> he will make the case he is the best candidate to beat donald trump. you said it yourself last time we were here. stuart: the convention starts.

delegates are ever which way, totally split. >> right. stuart: mike bloomberg a billionaire says to a few delegates, your big issue is guns. here is million dollars for your campaign in your home state. how about me for the nomination? >> i think it is more likely -- stuart: that is how it works. >> he will spend a billion dollars on the the campaign. he will spend money on groups that support him on their issues. not personally, not quid pro quos. and just issue, and like-minded people. he gets to independents and republicans where most democrats don't. that is what you said last time here. stuart: you happy to see "judge judy" on board? >> terrific. stuart: she has 10 million viewers a day. >> great endorsement. stuart: what do you say to this, here is my opinion. >> sure. stuart: make of it what he will. i think he gets the nomination for the democrats but i think he loses hands down to donald trump. >> if he gets the nomination. he is a unique candidate.

has a different appeal. unlimited resources he can bring to bear in the swing states, key six states. i think it will be a very close election either way, stuart. but bottom line, mike bloomberg is in this to win. anyone who counts him out, i'm glad you don't, would be making a bad mistake. stuart: i would not count him out. >> we agree on that. stuart: i never met him. >> get him on the show. stuart: doug, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. stuart: sure thing. there is an arrest warrant out issued by japanese prosecutors for the wife of carlos ghosn. her name is carol ghosn. what is the story. susan: she is being accused of perjury and lying about a meeting in japan. she is american passport holder. america and u.s., japan have extradition treaty. unlikely she goes back to japan to face this. details are looking out about

ghosn's escape from japan. he took a taxi, a bullet train to osaka, a private jet, then a jet to beirut. costing $20 million, according to financial times. british former army personnel were part of a escape team that helped him flee japan. stuart: financial times, right there, front page. 20 million bucks to get him out. susan: right. stuart: that is included foregone bail and expenses. susan: private jets cost $350,000 one way. "wall street journal" also allegedly having a photo of the box that he escaped in, that held the double bass. instead of the bass it held ghosn instead. ashley: who plays him in the movie? stuart: good question. a lot of interesting stories coming our way. we have this one too, news from pope francis, telling catholics to reject the god of money.

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stuart: go nowhere market thus far. we're down 60. been that way for some time. finland's new prime minister is pushing for better work-life

balance. hold on, i have a question, ash. ashley: yes? stuart: how many days of work a week and how many hours of work? ashley: four days a week, just section hours a day, just 24 hours for the week. i kind of like where she is headed for this, to be honest with you. this is finnish workers across the board. this is researched extensively, the prime minister of finland, 34-year-old sara marin. people detough to spend more time with family, hobbies. it is life work family. stuart: not everyone wants to spend more time. ashley: that is true. the divorce rate could go up. stuart: pope francis said, people should reject the god of money. that's his words. he also said to reject consumerism, pleasure and success. i'm not quite sure i get this. but come on in, jonathan morris, now a fox news contributor and a former catholic priest.

>> thank you. stuart: reject consumerism and reject success. i can't believe he said that. >> he didn't make it up, in the bible, love of money, is root of all evil. stuart: the quote, is, for the love of money which is source of all many forms of evil. >> that is the british translation. stuart: is it correct, translation, but i shall move on from there. >> money is not the root of all evil. love of money according to the scripture. that is very important distinction. stuart: love of money is source of many forms of evil. can we agree on this. >> yes. stuart: from a relidge -- religious perspective what is your response, our response be to iran, having knocked off their guy, their general, what should our response be to them? >> thinkers, philosophers, theologians and politicians have discussed the just war doctrine or theory. it goes back to the chinese,

egyptians, every single society looked, when is the right time to use force? and a lot of the democratic contenders right now for president, for the presidency have been using some of those terms as well, like, did the president have authority? of course he had the authority. was it an imminent threat? not only was it imminent, but this guy had already been doing it, was consistently doing it for all these years. i don't think that's the issue. this was bad reasoning on the part of some of these candidates. the bigger issue, this is one of the elements of the just war theories that have developed over the centuries, is, is there good possibility for success? right, so when you use force in order to stop evil, and this obviously was evil, it had to be stopped but what are the prospects for success? the only person who is in a place to know that, has to make the decision is the president. i don't think anybody is a very

good predictor what is, when they are going to be successful in the middle east or iran specifically. stuart: morally he did the right thing? >> morally he had the responsibility, and he was the only one with the responsibility and the obligation to make that choice. stuart: i hope you're enjoying life in civilian world. you look very well-dressed. i have to say. jonathan morris, thank you for joining us. >> appreciate is, stuart. stuart: president trump heading to ohio for a rally later this week. he won that state big time in 2016. is he worried about the battleground state? or just getting a head start of the democrat field. lawrence jones has commentary on the president going to ohio. coming up, a market watcher who is predicting a trump win in 2020. don't miss it. third hour of "varney" coming right up for you. dit card debt into one monthly payment. and get your interest rate right so you can save big.

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what a day it's been so far. last hour, we heard from secretary of state mike pompeo. he was really talking mostly about iran. the market had no reaction to what mr. pompeo had to say. the secretary of state did say unequivocally quote, iran will not get a nuclear weapon on our watch. now, here's what he had to say when he was asked whether suleimani, the man we took out, was actually on a diplomatic mission in baghdad. his response was a laugh and a joke. roll tape. >> his first statement that suleimani was traveling to baghdad on a diplomatic mission, anybody here believe that? is there any history that would indicate it was remotely possible that this kind gentleman, this diplomat, of great order, qassem suleimani, had traveled to baghdad for the idea of conducting a peace mission? i made you reporters laugh this morning. that's fantastic. we know that wasn't true. stuart: got it. now, the secretary of state

obviously standing by his decision to strike suleimani, saying it was perfectly within the legal bounds, which they always watch for. the price of oil, down today, down to $62 a barrel. so the reaction on the oil market to the suleimani taking out, negligible. we went from $58, $59 to $62 a barrel. hardly a pop. market watcher ron carson with us right now. let me get to the stock market here, because you say, i believe, that the effect of iran, the iran effect is minimal so do we say that this market just wants to go up? >> well, that's definitely the path of least resistance, stuart. one of the things we need to have, though, we had an ism number out this morning that was stronger than expected. wage growth is accelerating from 2.5% to 3% but we virtually had no earnings growth in 2019 so we went from 17 times earnings to 21 times earnings but things

settling down with china and some certainty around brexit, i think we are going to have confidence back into the market. but yeah, just because the markets made new highs, i don't think you should sell. historically the markets have actually posted about a 9% annualized gain the month following a new high. so a high is not -- stuart: i really want to just straighten this out, i want to be real clear here. in your opinion, this market just wants to go up, correct? >> it wants to go up and it believes the fed is going to be there to support it any time there's any weakness. stuart: hold on for a second because i just want to digress for a moment to talk about trade, because the debate on usmca, the new nafta, is under way in the senate and edward lawrence has been watching this. but my question, edward, is what impact will the impeachment move have on the passage of usmca? reporter: this is very interesting. what's happening right now, the senate finance committee is debating the usmca and it's

likely within the next few minutes, actually, the senate is wrapping this up, there will be a vote to send it to the full senate. there will be an impact because once it goes to the full senate, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said that a vote on usmca will not happen until after the impeachment trial happens in the senate. well, that won't happen until house speaker nancy pelosi sends the articles of impeachment over to the senate. now we have a situation again where sort of the house speaker is sort of holding up this vote on usmca. after today, after it passes this final hurdle. in that hearing today, just incidentally, both senators from -- senators and democrats and republicans are saying that this could be the single most important economic vote the senate takes in all of 2020 and again, as you said, the impeachment could delay that just a little bit. stuart: got it. edward lawrence in washington, thank you very much. back to ron carson. you heard all of this. look, usmca is going to pass at some point. it may be delayed but it's going

to pass. phase one of the china deal is going to be signed on january 15th. i don't see that trade is a risk factor for the market at this moment. do you? >> not at all. i think we have been beat to death with the headlines on trade and actually having some certainty around it. you know what's really cool, if capitalism figures a way around it anyway so a lot of things were actually happening behind the scenes to account for the fact we are still going to have tariffs, it is making our trade deficit it was better than expected, that was a major win for president trump and i just think his policies are actually setting us up to have a good run. one of the things that's not factored in, though, and i think it's not talked about enough, is suleimani, taking him out speaks volumes about how good our intelligence is. remember how long it took us to run down saddam hussein in iraq, and all of a sudden we had a surgical strike against someone that should have been a lot harder to take out.

stuart: in other words, the strike on suleimani could actually long run be a positive for the market, really? you're nodding your head. >> i think it's going to be -- i think it will be a big positive. i think it puts everybody that was thinking about causing trouble around the world at pause because they know they can't push trump around and he's serious when it comes to retaliation. i think that's a positive message for potential future stability. i know we are feeling just the opposite of that, but longer term, i think it's a major positive. i know i personally was very impressed. stuart: got it. thanks for joining us this morning. important day. we appreciate you being here. thank you very much. now, let's look at some individual companies here that are in the news and moving. first of all, disney. disney plus service off to what an extraordinary start. lauren simonetti here. wait a minute. that streaming business is two months old -- lauren: not even. stuart: not even. i've got some investment firms putting a value on it of $100 billion? lauren: barclays, $108 billion,

to be exact. they look at what's called enterprise value, basically market cap plus debt, and $108 billion for disney is about a third of its overall enterprise value which includes everything it's been doing for years, theme parks, movies, streaming just taking off. put that comparison to netflix which has been streaming for 13 years, barclays says disney plus is 69% of the enterprise value of netflix. but here's my issue with all this streaming everything. where are the profits? they spend so much money on the content, how profitable is that going to be in the end? hulu, for instance, isn't expected to be profitable until 2023-2024. stuart: the answer to that is the subscription money that flows in on a very very regular basis. it's like a cash flow that's coming at you as far as the eye can see. ash and i were sitting here listening to this, blown away by an enterprise value -- ashley: we throw the numbers

around all the time but $108 billion. that's mind-boggling. stuart: it is. it's this global marketplace. 20 years ago, 40 years ago, i was just getting into the business, if you talked about the size of the market you were talking about america, the size of the american market. today, you are talking about a global market. so if facebook can have 2.5 billion users and disney can have heaven knows how many hundred million people around the world on its streaming service, it's a new ball game. this internet is really something. ashley: you are just figuring that out. lauren: i love our conversations about what to watch. i have never seen so much good content in my life. we talk about it all the time, are you watching this, are you watching this. there's something for everybody. stuart: know what i was watching? trotski on netflix. know who that was? lauren: i'm supposed to but the answer is no. stuart: i didn't mean to embarrass you. ashley: the founder of trotski-ism. power to the people.

stuart: he created largely the russian revolution. then having created the revolution, he handed power to lenin of all people. ashley: how did that work out? stuart: not well. but i digress. streaming is in. i like this stuff. boeing. the "wall street journal" says they are thinking about raising some money, maybe $5 billion worth of new debt, because the max jet crisis has taken its toll. they are also going to move 3,000 workers who used to work on the max jet, they are transferring them, moving them into other operations. look at the stock. it's now up nearly seven bucks at $340 a share. full disclosure, when i sold some microsoft, i put some of the money into boeing. it's up seven bucks today. check american airlines. they reached a settlement with boeing over the max jet. no impact on the stock, really. that stock is up 27 cents right there. next, joe biden, here in new

york city today. another round of fund-raising. last time he was here he brought in some record-breaking cash, $500,000 in a day. how much will a seat cost at his event this time around? we are on it. later in the hour, we have market watcher bob doll on the show. he's got his ten predictions for 2020. you guessed it, he's betting on a trump win in november. we will let him make his case. we heard from secretary of state pompeo, made some headlines on iran. i want to know about that lingering cybersecurity threat from them. senator mike rounds is with us, chair of the armed services subcommittee on cybersecurity. he's on the show. third hour of "varney & company" heating up. ♪

stuart: i want to get back to boeing real fast. the stock is moving significantly. it's up 2%, that's $7 higher. i was asking why is that, what's the news, and the answer is word on the street is that warren buffett is, as they say, kicking the tires on boeing. it's now up to $341, 2.25%, up $7.45 per share. okay. i bet he's got a tiny thin sliver of boeing. facebook removing deep fake videos. they will allow some altered content. lauren: oh, boy. stuart: but they're not removing all deep fake? lauren: no. no. a deep fake is essentially putting ashley's image on your face, then having him say i love tattoos. that's funny so that deep fake using artificial intelligence would be okay. it's parody, satire. but when it's spreading misinformation, false information, it would be banned on facebook, obviously, ahead of the 2020 election.

facebook and the other social media companies have a lot at stake. go back to the nancy pelosi slurring speech as if she were drunk video. that's what's called a shallow fake. it was just slowed down, sped up, it wasn't really manipulated so that would be okay and that's why facebook didn't take it down, but this is another instance of a lopsided strategy. stuart: that would be okay? i remember seeing that video of nancy pelosi. it looked like her speech was slurred and that was because somebody had deliberately edited it in a slightly slow-mo fashion. that's distortion. facebook allows that? lauren: apparently. stuart: it's not using digital switching, it's using editing techniques. lauren: simple editing. ashley: still, it's an unfair attack on somebody who didn't actually perform like that. stuart: i agree entirely. lauren: what is facebook to do, what should they do. deep fake technology is getting so good it will be impossible sometimes to determine what is real and what's not.

stuart: the stock is at $213. that's facebook. it's been on quite a run these days. lauren: really good 2020. stuart: earlier today, secretary of state pompeo addressed the ongoing tension with iran. he said our foreign policy is all about protecting the homeland. that's one of the things he said. come in, senator mike rounds, who is with us. you, sir, are on the senate subcommittee on cybersecurity. i think that's correct. so mr. senator, am i right in saying that we can expect a cyberattack from iran, but we can counter attack in a devastating fashion? can we say that? >> we can say that we have been preparing for iranian activity in cyberspace for a long time, that we know a number of the different tools that they have been successfully deploying in the middle east in particular, and that we have fixes for a number of them but that does not mean that we can promise everybody that anything they may try, that we are going to be able to counter. we are getting better at it but

most certainly, they have capabilities in which they can take out computer systems. they like to go after financial services, they like to go after energy services and so forth. but we do have, on the other side, not only strong defensive capability, but we have very strong offensive capabilities as well, and iran knows that. we have utilized them in the past. they know that we are not afraid to utilize them if we need to in the future, but once again, this is a case where cyber activity is something that you think you are prepared for, but there's always the opportunity to get better, particularly when it comes to defense, and as long as you get lots of people that are working in lots of different systems, there is always the possibility of human error and if human error allows one of those malware devices to get in, you could have problems. stuart: yes, sir. forgive me for going back to something you just said, but you did say that we have hit them before. i'm intrigued at that.

what did we do to them when we hit them in the cyber warfare area? >> let's simply say there were certain defensive capabilities that they had that they discovered weren't as good as they thought they were. stuart: you are a diplomat. you really are. would it be true to say that if we wanted to, we could shut them down? >> i think it's fair to say that we have very very strong offensive capabilities. as a matter of fact, we have probably got the best offensive capabilities of anybody in the world. but here's the issue. even though you have the best of systems, it doesn't mean that the other folks aren't getting better, and iran is getting better. they discovered years ago that we could get in, we could cause real problems with them. there are other things that i think we disclosed publicly in which their ability to actually produce nuclear materials was severely limited because of attacks. they learned that back ten years

ago. since that time, though, they have done a lot of work on their offensive capabilities as well. you hear about them through zero clear, other types of software that are discussed today and professionals in the cyber world are aware of what iran tried to do in the past. what they tried to do is get in and wipe out software. they really like working on oil fields and equipment in oil fields. aramco was the recipient of some of their attacks in which they literally shut down thousands of computer systems. they do have capabilities. but once they use one of those tools, other people figure out a way to put patches in to stop them. so they have to constantly be upgrading their types of malicious software as well. one other area that you may want to be aware of that folks out there have got to recognize is that when it comes to social media, iran is very good at

manipulating social media. they will use software to get in and manipulate social media on a regular basis. stuart: we are on high alert. senator mike rounds, thanks for joining us, sir. we really appreciate it. big day. thank you. now, if you have noticed, bottom right-hand corner of the screen, the market's come back a bit. that's largely on the strength of boeing which is a dow stock. it's up eight bucks at the moment. look at tesla. that's a new record high. elon musk is in shanghai for the debut of china-made cars. he's celebrating. he's got every right to celebrate. ashley: he does, literally dancing his way on to the stage in shanghai. amusing video but as a guest pointed out earlier, he's laughing and dancing all the way to the bank. he also announced, by the way, that production is starting to get under way on the model y which is the suv at that giga factory plant in shanghai or just outside shanghai. all things very positive for elon musk, who we looked at china and said can you really make these deadlines? well, he did, although it has to

be pointed out that -- there he is, he gets into his dance groove, thought it was a striptease for a minute but he's just taking his jacket off, thank goodness. stuart: he deserves it. take a victory lap. you deserve it. what he did was astonishing. thanks, ash. i'm going to be talking about joe biden. he's in new york city today. couple of big ticket fundraisers. last time he was here, he took in a half million dollars in one night. i want to know how much joe biden is charging for a seat at the table this time around. we'll be right back. ♪

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stuart: joe biden is in new york city, raising some money, and deirdre bolton is here. she is going to tell us how much he charges for a seat at the table. deirdre: the maximum was $2800 which i don't know, in stuart varney's world, may be quite reasonable. you could have a seat a little further away from him for $250 or $500, according the a source that i spoke with this morning. but what's interesting to note, joe biden actually has the best fund-raising quarter since he announced in the spring that he

was running so that's the good news for him. he raised more than $23 million in the last three months of 2019. the bad news for him, he is still behind senator sanders, he is still behind mayor pete and they are all way behind president trump so president trump in the last quarter of last year raised $46 million in the same period of time. stuart: do we know how many fund-raisers he will give in new york city today? deirdre: not precisely but he is coming back in the summer and that has been leaked so you have some early june dates. that is not to say that won't be back before then. but early june dates. also, he is accepting super pac money, as everybody heads to iowa on the democratic side and i will just note, mayor pete, senator sanders, senator warren have said they will not court super pac money. stuart: you can actually give as much as you like to a super pac and you can do it anonymously which is quite an attraction for most people. thank you very much. next case, we have market guru bob doll on the show.

he brought his ten market predictions for 2020. he expects, he predicts a trump victory in november. we will certainly let him make his bullish case. mike bloomberg spending huge amounts -- mike bloomberg has spent $166 million so far and has hired 500 staffers so far. he even got the endorsement of judge judy. he's already third place in at least one national poll. lawrence jones on that, next. ♪ ( ♪ ) ♪ the sun is risin' ♪ ♪ as the day begins ♪ time for reflectin' on family and friends ♪

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stuart: check that market. you'll like what you see. the dow is only down 27 points. that's largely because boeing has come back from nowhere. the word is that maybe warren buffett is kicking the tires, that's the expression that's being used. pure speculation but it's enough to raise boeing $8.50 per share, 2.5%, $342 on boeing. it is a dow stock and that's helped the market come back a bit. our next guest has market predictions for 2020. his name is bob doll.

i call him the trillion dollar man because his company manages a trillion dollars. isn't that right? >> you got it. happy new year. stuart: happy new year to you as well. prediction number one that really intrigued me, trump wins in 2020. why? >> incumbent presidents as you know run for re-election and don't have significant party challengers or a recession almost always win. stuart: this iran thing is not important? >> it's important. the market so far is saying it's not very important but i think it's important, it's going to be with us for some time. it's not unlike the china issue. china/u.s. skirmish will continue for years if not decades. iran, we have been fighting with them with words, hopefully that's as far as it goes, for some time. it's not going to make this election go a different way. stuart: before we get into other predictions, are you of the opinion that iran cannot hurt our economy or significantly raise the price of oil? >> well, they can if they do some drastic things. that could hurt our economy.

but then their economy will be just devastated by the retaliation. stuart: another prediction, no recession in 2020. make your case. >> the number of times people have asked in this last six months especially about a recession is unbelievable. stuart, as you know, there are no signs of recession. stuart: the media wanted it, bob. they wanted it. >> yes, there's a lot of that going around. credit spreads are tight, inflation's not a particular problem. we just don't have the precursors. housing starts moving up, capacity utilization under 80%. those things don't exist if you are about to have a recession. so it would be out of left field. stuart: what kind of growth rate for america's economy in 2020? >> two plus. globally, three plus. those are good numbers. they're not going to set records but that's good and strong, especially for how long this economic cycle has gone. longest in history, as you know. stuart: 2% growth in america, 3%

worldwide. that implies that the stock market's going to do okay. >> yeah, i think it's going to be okay. the problem is expectations are so high. we push pe ratios last year up four points, which means a lot of good news has to come just to justify that, and my concern is analysts have expectations on earnings that are a little on the high side. we will have some cost pressures, especially around wages in my view. unemployment rate, 50-year low. we talk to a lot of ceos, they are having trouble finding workers and when they find one it's usually because they are working for someone else and they have to hire them away at a higher price. stuart: bob doll, the trillion dollar man, is bullish on the market and the economy for 2020. sum it up like that? >> that's a good way to put it. the economy's probably better this year than last, but markets are probably not as good this year as last. stuart: we will take it anyway. >> we will take it. a plus sign would be a victory. stuart: bob doll, i won't repeat

the trillion dollar -- yeah. okay, bob, appreciate it. thank you. president trump later this week heads to ohio and he's going to toledo later this week. it's another keep america great rally. remember, please, he won ohio i think it was by eight points back in 2016, roughly that, anyway. but he got only 8% of the african-american vote in ohio. look who's here. lawrence jones, fox news contributor, rising star of all media. he's with us today. what's going on? i'm just getting excited. >> i feel it. i feel it. stuart: can president trump increase his share of the black vote in ohio in 2020? >> hundred percent. he can increase it across the country but you got to put in the work. right now, there are strategists and consultants out there playing this game of trying to get the black vote. but they're not targeting the communities the right way. the president has a record of accomplishments when it comes to the economy, when it comes to opportunity zones, criminal justice reform, all great

things, but if you're not messaging to the community, if you're not going -- this rally is great in ohio but you already got those people. you got to pound the pavement. stuart: you're saying you should go directly to the black community? >> directly to the people like he did when he was an entertainer and black people loved him, watched his show all the time. there's 10 to 12 songs, rappers talking about how they wanted to be like donald trump. donald trump has to take the president hat, put on the entertainer and the builder hat, and i have always said that the president would do himself a great deal if he was to adopt a city. he does building very well, business very well. teach the community this. that's how you get them. focus on the politics of the day -- stuart: you mean adopt a specific city -- >> adopt a city, baltimore, chicago, somewhere in ohio, and make it a model for the country. connect with the people. tell them they don't need to be on food stamps, they don't need to be on section 8. he wants them to live luxury. he wants them to have the best builders, the best cars, the

best schools. that's how you change a generation. stuart: interesting idea. maybe the president will take you up on that. >> he watches this show, you know. stuart: i'm told. yes. good stuff. i want to talk about mike bloomberg. he spent, what, $166 million already. he's hired 500 staffers, 13 states. he's rising in the polls. he's third, tied for third in at least one poll that i have seen, and he's got judge judy in his corner. before we go on, listen to this endorsement from judge judy. >> to defy mike bloomberg as just another rich guy is one of the greatest injustices of this political campaign that we're in, because mike bloomberg is the only one of the candidates who has experience governing and managing and successful, and if he's successful and happened to have made money being successful, that, folks, is the

american dream. stuart: i would call that an eloquent endorsement, but i don't think mike bloomberg gets the black vote. what say you? >> he doesn't get the black vote and he's not going to get a lot of votes from people because you can't buy a race. see, here's the difference between him and donald trump. donald trump went after the people, right. it wasn't about spending all this money. i mean, he did spend thaall tha money with people knocking on doors. he went to the people and hosted big rallies and talked about the issues that mattered to them. he seems a little disconnected and that may get him closer to winning the -- i think joe biden is still going to be the nominee. it may get him a little closer but when it comes to going toe-to-toe with donald trump, i don't think he will be able to do that. i still don't think he's going to win the nomination. i think joe biden is their guy. he will be a weak candidate because of hunter biden and he flip-flops, he's been in politics ever since he was 30. he doesn't know what he stands for. that's a problem after you have been in politics that long.

the problem with bloomberg is the big problem with most democrats as well. they don't know their message. i think bloomberg is the same thing. stuart: you are fascinating. the idea of taking the message straight to the black community, adopting a city and saying look. i like it when you said what have you got to lose. remember that? that really rang true. >> now go there and tell them what they're losing right now and how you can benefit them and they can benefit themselves with your policies. that's how you win. stuart: if we get a presidential tweet adopting your idea of adopting a city -- >> you heard it first on "varney & company." isn't this a top-rated business morning show? there you go. stuart: so i'm told. i don't like to boast. you are a star. what's your name again? lawrence jones. lauren: you're invited back. stuart: brother, you're all right. hey, we've got breaking news from capitol hill. the senate finance committee has

approved usmca. that's the new nafta, of course. it's now one step closer to the senate floor. but of course, impeachment is kind of in the way. it will probably delay usmca until we've got impeachment organized, shall we say. oil, down today despite the tensions with iran. obviously this is because of america's energy independence. next, senator kevin cramer, north dakota republican, big shale state. the frackers have saved america. that's my opinion. i will let him take a victory lap. we love good success stories on this show. we know people are flocking to low tax states like florida, texas, arizona, tennessee, but how much extra cash are those states taking in because of the exodus? i will give you a hint. it's in the billions. love that number. back in a moment. ♪ look, this isn't my first rodeo...

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stuart: long' running story on this show, lots of people leaving high tax states and heading some place where they don't have to meet the same tax burden. my question to ashley is, are those states taking in the tax refugees, how much money are they taking in? ashley: tons, stu. florida, $16 billion in 2018. arizona, way behind, but you can't sniff at it, $3.5 billion. texas coming in at $3.4 billion. this is all these where are they leaving and how much its hurting the original states. i can tell you. new york lost $9.6 billion as wealthy individuals and businesses got the heck out because of the high taxes. california lost $8 billion in 2018 alone. new jersey, which you are very familiar with, lost about $3.1 billion. connecticut lost about $1

billion. all of these getting the heck out of high taxes, heading south to warmer weather and tax-friendly states. stuart: it's not going to stop, either. ashley: i can hear them, i can hear the stampede from here. stuart: the u-hauls are firing up. five years ago, this is my belief, if the iran situation had happened five years ago, our market would have sold off big-time and gas prices would have gone through the roof but because we are energy independent, we have been saved from that fate. north dakota senator kevin cramer is with us. senator, you are an oil state. i want to give you a victory lap because i think the frackers of north dakota and texas, of course, have bailed out america. i know you are going to agree with that but go on, lay it on thick, why don't you? >> i'm happy to. first of all, all of those people that are leaving california, we need a few in north dakota because we have about 30,000 job openings and all those chevron workers that are leaving iraq --

stuart: senator, hold on, it's the weather. you know that. >> that's why we layer. that's why we layer. but the reality is that we are not just energy independent anymore, we are energy dominant thanks to donald trump and republican leadership in congress. the reality is that every time a void is created, you see a spike whether it's the killing of a general or an attack, iranian attack on a saudi oil infrastructure, you see a 2% or 3% spike in the price of brent and you see it come down the next day because we fill the voids. we have become, ever since our ability to export oil, that of course was granted about five years ago when we lifted the oil export ban, and really, the revoluti revolution, renaissance of oil and gas in the united states, our productivity, our efficiency, we are able to fill those voids and have become the global price stabilizer. to your point. i also think, stu, you look at the entire stock market and why it's been able to endure all of

this, and why our economy is so strong. it's because, you know, the oil and gas industry isn't just pumping and moving. it's a supply chain that's made up of over a million workers in all 50 states. and of course, it costs money to transport goods and services around the world and we again, brought that stability to it. it's an incredible contributor to the world economy. stuart: i'm afraid our time is up but we did want to give you time to make a victory lap and to say congratulations to all those good people in north dakota who bailed out the rest of the world and certainly america. always appreciate it. thank you very much. >> thank you, my pleasure. stuart: now then, here's a story which i did not understand and i'm not sure i understand it now. amazon's alexa appearing in your car. now, lauren, the way it was explained to me was you are driving along, you pull up to the gas station -- lauren: exxon. stuart: exxon, whatever it is, and you say alexa, pay for my gas. lauren: she doesn't pump it.

stuart: no. but she pays for it. lauren: so -- stuart: is this such a big deal? lauren: no. no. what it does is start to make us think about talking to our cars and telling our cars to do things for us. so you maybe could save yourself some time if it's freezing outside, you don't have to get out of your car to put your credit card in but that's really it. it's the idea of the connected car, talking to your car and the wow factor. alexa, pay my gas. stuart: i can see how down the road some ways, we will all get used to the alexas of this world, these assistants, computerized assistants. i'm just not there yet. lauren: i think down the road, we're not driving those cars. stuart: true. lauren: so alexa, pay my gas, alexa, take me to work, i'm going to sleep in the back. stuart: self-driving car. entertain me while somebody else drives the thing. got it. thanks, lauren. lauren: sounds good. stuart: i can see that. hyundai teaming up with uber. wait. wait. wait. the script says they are going to build a line of flying taxis.

in which century? ashley: this century. look, it's called the sa-1 and it takes off and lands vertically, can carry as many as four passengers. there it is. it can cruise at about 180 miles an hour. for as sffar as 60 miles and th connect to a series of hubs. it will land and the hub is where other uber rides are ready to go. you can go from either the uber car to the uber airport or vice versa. it's interesting. hyundai is going to be doing all the manufacturing and deploying the taxis. uber will provide some of the other applications. look, i would say a number of years away to be diplomatic, but it's definitely heading in that direction. you have seen the concept there. very upscale taxi. stuart: with a very big price tag. not just for the taxi but to use the thing. ashley: i'm sure. they haven't gotten into that yet. if you can beat the traffic jams in and around new york city and elsewhere, might be worth it. stuart: got that right. stock check real fast.

check jetblue. they are working to become the first carbon-neutral u.s. airline. not affecting the stock price which is actually down 12 cents as of now. how about alphabet? that's google's parent company. they hit an all-time high yesterday. they are up, what, 70 odd cents today. very close again to $1400 a share. how about apache, a big oil company. they just struck a huge -- they made a huge discovery of oil off the coast of latin america. bank of america just raised the price target on that stock to $36 a share. right now it's up six at $31. that's a rally. last but not least, beyond meat. fake meat guys, as you know. you think they would be down on news that impossible foods is coming out with fake pork, but look at the stock again, it's up more than 7% as we speak. what a market. next case, legal pot went on sale in illinois new year's day.

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stuart: illinois began selling recreational marijuana at the start of this new year. some places have already run out of it, i guess demand is strong. grady trimble joins us from chicago. tell us all about it, grady. reporter: stuart, high demand, you could say, no pun intended. if this line at this dispensary looks long to you, this is nothing. there's actually about a two-hour wait, then they bring people over in small groups to go into this store and in the past week alone, the dispensaries across illinois have sold $11 million worth of product, causing some dispensaries to basically run out of recreational weed. and it's not that they're running out of pot entirely. they still have to keep their medical patients supplied with the product that they normally pick up, so those medical patients can skip the line, but it's that recreational weed that everybody wants to get their hands on for the novelty of it, so lot of places are having to close down to those customers,

and then on top of that, this dispensary didn't have to close down because of that. they closed yesterday because their employees had worked five days straight for 14 hours a day and they just needed a break to kind of reset and get things back going today. so they've got the long line down the road and again, because weed is illegal federally, they have to supply everything in illinois and so that's causing some of the supply chain issues. so all of the dispensaries are trying to ramp the product development up in their different growing facilities across the state so that they can keep up with the demand here. stuart? stuart: grady trimble, as always, right in the middle of it. what a guy. thank you, grady. thank you very much indeed. it occurs to me that you're going to have supply problems if you go legal in a state, but you can't get the marijuana from any other state. it's got to be grown locally. ashley: right. stuart: is that right? i think that's the way it works. you've got to get it from canada or some other -- ashley: then you have

transportation across state line issues. stuart: that's right. ashley: across states that don't allow it. yeah, it's an issue. the black market is still thriving even in states that have legalized it, because of the taxes and everything else, it's still cheaper on the black market. stuart: i was wondering if president trump would say all right, on a national basis, let's legalize it, on a federal basis, let's legalize it. ashley: there's a big call for that because the banking system will not touch it. stuart: but would that be a plus with voters or a minus? will it enhance his political position or detract from it? lauren: i think you talk to younger people, they would be very much for that. stuart: okay. more "varney" after this. ♪ we're carvana, the company who invented

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he is industrials guy usmca passed the senate finance committee but will be delayed in the full senate by impeachment. our time is up. here is neil cavuto. it is yours. neil: we're following up on the president set to brief congressional leaders on the iran situation. this afternoon the so-called "gang of eight" includes likes of mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, kevin mccarthy. leaders of house and senate in both parties. secretary of state mike pompeo defending the strike that has been a source of this controversy, saying iran will not get a nuclear weapon no matter what. >> if you're looking for imminence, you need to look no further than the days that led up to the strike taken against soleimani. in addition to that, what we can clearly see continuing efforts on behalf of this terrorist to buildout a network of campaign activities that were going to