and two popes. netflix 23, that is not bad. stuart: watching two popes. ashley: it is very good. stuart: sharp edged. neil cavuto on deck. , it is yours. neil: the focus this week will be on the china trade deal signing on wednesday. we'll get a sense of the fourth quarter earnings. they are expected net-net, year-over-year to be down from what they were a year ago and year ago period. what we're watching for is the guidance here. also telegraphing what they're going to be saying about the first and second, even third quarters of, those are expected to be up year-over-year. so much so, this is built-in optimism at corner of wall and broad. we'll see earnings overall 9% better than a year ago. now, again, that is sort of early read on this. you know about early reads. let's get real clear markets editor john tamney on that. a lot of hyped expectations

going into earnings season. this is a chance to look at the last quarter of last year. where do you see this year and how it is shaping up? >> let's never forget all stock prices are just expectations by investors about all the dollars a company will earn in the future. it seeps like there is relief out there. not so much investors want a big trade deal. they don't need trade deals. they need certainty, any kind of deal entered into will not limit the ability of the chinese to sell into the united states. by definition, americans to sell into china. china is a huge market for american companies. anything that doesn't limit that in some major way will be good for seems. neil: we've been building up in anticipation of the signed deal on wednesday if it comes to pass. could be a case of selling on the fact? in other words, what is going to be in a new deal or iran or what other factors will influence where we go with this market?

>> yeah. you get the feeling that this is already priced. the good news is already there in that there is not going to be something major that is going to limit the ability of producers in both countries so interconnected at this point, there is major love affair going on in china for american goods. american producers, and consumers love idea of getting so much of the world's plenty at low prices. so it is beneficial to both sides. nothing is going to get in the way of that. obviously there is also presumably relief that nothing big seems to have come to pass, come to pass with iran. historically these kinds of, this kind of brinksmanship is bad for the dollar. it brings it down. falling dollar is terrible for investors because investor are buying dollars. neil: let's play out interest rates as well. lost in the sauce, how relatively low they maintained. i'm wondering, you know the employment report, probably closer to a goldilocks to tad

disappointing t keeps the fed at bay. makes it potentially estimate la live to the end of the year. what do you think? >> i think if which could alter reality the japan would be the greatest economy on earth. if they were that important, u.s. economy wouldn't be worth talking about. central planning failed in the 20th century. what are people borrowing, borrowing dollars. they're borrowing access to resources. in a globalized, wildly productive economy is it any surprise access to resources is becoming more, less and less pricey over time when so much of the world is producing together? the interest rate story is a production, economic freedom story. has nothing to do with the fed. let's not, let's not shrink our economy and our achievements claiming these guys are the source of our prosperity. neil: john, thank you very much, my friend. as always, i learn a lot. so do our viewers. we appreciate that.

i want to pass along a statement we've gotten from queen elizabeth regarding harry and megan and their intentions to sort of withdraw from the royal family, not completely enough to tick her off judging by this statement. today my family had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family. she goes on to write, my family and are entirely supportive of harry and megan desire to create a new life at young family. we prefer them to be part of the royal family, we understand their wish to live more independent life while maintain a valued part of my family. megan and harry made it clear they do not want to rely on public funds in their new lives. there is agreed a period of transition which the sussexs will spend time in canada and the uk. these are complex matters for my family to resolve. there is some more work to be done. i asked for final decisions to be reached within the coming days. in other words wrap it up one

way or the other. or i will get mighty ticked off! there you go. meantime china trade team is headed for united states for phase one signing. china issued a warning over u.s. sanctioning companies. potentially if that disrupts the signing on wednesday if it comes to pass. who knows better than edward lawrence from the white house. reporter: the short answer no, on that front. they are two separate issues. right now the chinese delegation is in the air, on their way to washington, d.c. this as a spokesman for the chinese foreign ministry they warned the u.s. to stop sanctioning chinese entities. some chinese firms were caught up in the new iran sanctions for buying and shipping iranian steel. here is spokesman. listen. >> translator: china always opposed unilateral sanctions and so-called long arm just ticks to use or threaten to use sanctions at every turn will not help resolve the issue at all. reporter: on the other side of

this received goodwill from the u.s. before a phase one trade deal was signed. we're the first to tell you senior administration official says the foreign exchange report is due out by wednesday. chinese source says china will be removed as a currency manipulator in that report. that is important, because their trade sources tell us the chinese wouldn't sign phase one trade deal as one of the wants they had as currency manipulator. it appears according to sources that is going to happen today or before the phase one signing. back to you. neil: the administration consistently called the chinese a currency manipulator. reporter: yeah they have. experts will look at it, they have done it, but chinese themselves vehemently deny they're currency manipulators. the report when it comes out it will liz in quite detailed fashion what the chinese are doing to become more transparent. so we'll know a little bit more about opening up their books, how that works with the

currency, specifically related to their currency. neil: i heard someone explain that, you might have been a currency manipulator. we don't see you as a manipulator anymore. i have no idea what that means. thank you very much, edward lawrence. iran, the other big international story. the protests continue after the downing of that plane. president trump is warning iran about going after protests and threatening china over buying more oil from iran. so these two issues are joined at hip, aren't they? hudson institute senior fellow rebecca heinrichs what she makes of all this what do you think, rebecca? >> i think president trump is making some incredibly helpful states on twitter supporting the iranian people, threatening the regime not to use force, excessive force against the people. remember these are unarmed protesters. this comes on the heels of protesters in recent weeks and months in which the regime responded with force, killing upwards of up to 1500 of its own people so anything that the united states can do to

encourage the iranian people against the regime i think works to our interests but remember, this has got to be the future of iran rests with the iranian people. the united states as far as i can tell isn't going to be doing nothing, nor should it to cause any unrest internally. it has got to be the will of the iranian to change the nature of their regime. neil: so these protest, we have very disparate reports prior to this whole plane downing iranians shot in excess of 1500 protesters. some we had tape of that. now with the eyes of the world watching they're not being that blatant. do you think they will still be violent in response to this. >> i can't tell. for as long as i've been following iran and issue of malign activities iran is projecting outside of its borders, this is the most, this is the weakest, most back on its heels i ever seen the regime

following president trump's i think brilliant decision to take out soleimani, the head general of the irgc quds force because -- destroyed this facade that the iran regime was not backing these militias outside of its borders which we've known for so long but have not held the regime accountable. doing so it knocks the regime back on its heels. it tells us we will continue to hold them accountable. i don't suppose this is the last time the united states holds the regime accountable, by taking any other iranian officials going out the u.n. borders. u.n. prohibited soleimani going outside of the borders. iranian tragedy taking out the commercial airliner shows just how irresponsible the regime is. if they would just focus on the flourishing and just care of their people, instead of this maligned iranian islamic revolutionary behavior outside of its borders, it would be much

more peaceful, the regime would be more secure than it is now. neil: it is not secure. rebecca, thank you very, very much. two things to tell you about before we take the break here, the queen as i mentioned in england let harry and megan move part time to canada. we don't know what constitute part time. eight to nine months in canada and rest of months in britain as they role back their commitment to the royal duties. separately, it is a good thing they will be in canada, not new jersey, that state entertaining a millionaire's tax, that would have been a reason for them to skip the garden state. ♪.

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we'll get into that in a second here. 21 days until iowa, senator bernie sanders is leading in iowa poll for the first time. michael bloomberg is prepared to spend upwards of a billion dollars the democrat nominee might be, even if it is not him. he thinks it is worth that kind of dough to get donald trump out of office. to "daily caller" editor vince coglianese. cory booker is not a shopper. he was talking about how difficult it was for him to qualify for the upcoming debate and he couldn't and it got worse, right. >> that's right. one of the things he is complaining about, it is the pare, the idea there is a race problem. many democrats blaming iowa and new hampshire being two white. that is not true of course. barack obama win in 2008 in iowa, the iowa caucuses, did

very well there. the reason he didn't catch fire was because his message just didn't appeal in a crowded field. i think, for democrats they should stop focus on diversity of the field, focus on diversity of the voters and black voters are lining up behind joe biden and cory booker can't explain that. neil: you always remind still too early to judge what happens in past couple weeks, three weeks out, that bernie sanders is surging, probably just the right time. what do you make of that? >> i think that is credit to his campaign infrastructure. it is credit to the last cycle being opportunity to grow that infrastructure. bernie sanders sounds authentic at least about his views in the ways of elizabeth warren doesn't as she sees her stake fall in that primary fight. he has a lot of democrats today sweating because this idea that bernie sanders, who is an independent by party registration, and a socialist, could become the nominee of the

democratic party, has been deeply worried. we saw over the weekend, jim messina, the former campaign manager for president obama, he said that is president trump's dream ticket. the trump campaign has to be salivating of the idea that bernie sanders at their opponent. neil: you hear a lot of folks saying that bernie sanders would be like picking george mcgovernor return in '72. passionate base loves the guy, losing in overwhelming landslide. is that justified to say that could happen? >> it is very possible. bernie sanders is a lot of material for president trump to work with. president trump loves material. he loves this kind of stuff. when it comes to bernie sanders, the guy, going on his honeymoon in the soviet union year before berlin wall comes down. that is kind of thing president trump will go after. older voters will not appeal to that. he may appear to a certain set of democratic party.

that set has a ceiling. that is why democrats are scared he could lose, the down ballot consequences for senators, congressman, state and local positions could be horrendous for the democratic party. right now he is insurgent. neil: vince, thank you very, very much. we're talking about how some in the party are getting a little anxious about prospect of democratic nominee if it were bernie sanders. reggie love, president obama's former top personal assistant will join me 4:00 p.m. on "your world." you never believe who he thinks would be a better alternative. i will give you a hint. it is not joe biden. queen elizabeth calling her summit with prince harry very, very constructive. was it? is it? after this. ♪ so what are you working on?

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neil: welcome back, everybody. the queen now says the royal family is entirely supportive of prince harry and megan's decision to take a step back from their royal duties. to the "daily mail".com is female. email. i thought it was a typo. charlie joins us. you're not surprised by any of this. >> no. neil: we're told the queen was. so was she ever broached on this? >> yeah, i mean they wouldn't have made these decisions without approaching the queen. everyone within the inner circle of the royal family knew this was coming. the surprise is when the announcement was made. harry and megan dropped this bomb shoal without for warnerring everyone else to make this without telling anyone else. they were caught short and that is not something buckingham

palace likes to be caught in. neil: you know the statements better than i do. the statements were terse. let them go out, wish them luck, et cetera. is there a chill here? how would you describe it? >> buckingham palace is not hiding the fact this is not their first choice how the things would have gone down. that is what the statement said. you don't have to read between the lines to understand that the queen doesn't like what is going on but they, megan and harry made it clear they will not participate in normal roles as senior members of royal family. there is nothing anyone can do. buckingham palace is making the best of a very bad situation. neil: i read a lot of your very fine press. i not as expert as you are. i get a sense, everybody is blaming megan, she is the culprit, she is the controversy? >> there is definitely a chill towards megan. i don't know it is fair to place all the blame on her shoulders because at the end -- neil: would harry have done this without her? >> it depends. harry had a really rough ride.

he had a very difficult life. he always struggled being in the public eye, dealing with the public scrutiny particularly from members of the media and the uk. i think being a father and being a husband is what is pushed him to do this. i don't think we can say megan was whispering in his ear, get out, get out. honestly it is the changes in his life-style that problemmed him to do this. as a fare, as a husband, you want to protect the people closest in your family unit. neil: i always think of his mom, right? she wanted to be away from the paparazzi like that. it only got worse. >> it did. he made very clear i don't want the same thing happened to my mother that happened to megan. he is going into protective instinct mode for his wife and son. he thinks the best thing to do is get them out of there we spoke someone very close to dorian, megan's mother, they said everyone was worried for megan's mental health. she was having panic attacks. she was anxious about the future. she wasn't sleeping. everyone closest to her felt only way for her to stay healthy

and sane, get her out of the uk. neil: she is going to be in canada how many months of the year? >> it is very unclear at the moment. the interesting thing about the statement, it said there will be a period of time where they split their lives between canada and the uk. everything we're hearing megan wants to be in canada full time. she does not want to keep coming back and fourth between canada and the uk. so the way the statement was phrased was particularly interesting on that point because it suggests they will only split their time between north america and the uk for a certain amount of time. neil: they have rolled back the royal duties, right? >> right. neil: if they end them outright, get no royal checks, whatever, you tell me that they stand to make a lot more money? >> way more money. neil: like what is way more? >> branding experts say they're worth $500 million. which is -- neil: strike while the branding iron is hot? >> i think having royal cachet will help them. at the end. day they will probably keep the royal titles.

probably not have those stripped away. his and her royal highness duke and duchess of sussex. that carry as amount of weight. neil: do they share that with the kingdom? >> they will not have to share the money they make this is the point where it is interesting. neil: the brits get upset in that, they cash in on their royal success. >> absolutely. there is lot of frustration and anger about the fact they have been relying on taxpayer money, taxpayers funded refurbishment of their beautiful home in windsor we understand they will be keeping. neil: who uses that months they are not there. >> nobody. neil: airbnb? >> i don't think so. they will have the luxury to come and close as they please. that irritating people. neil: william and kate look great. >> they look very shiny. everybody loves william and kate. there was never brad blood against them. the palace was very quick that william had been a bully. that came out. william made that first joint public statement to absolutely say, no, not true whatsoever.

advocates for mental health we really, really don't like the fact people are even suggesting there was any bullying or any, animosity between the two. neil: and charles? >> charles i think is hurt. he has invested a lot of time and a lot of money. we understand he was giving megan and harry additional funds to make sure they were comfortable and happy in the uk. to see his son walk away after everything they have been through together is quite hurtful. you have to feel a sense of betrayal there, really. neil: you're excellent. you know your stuff. thank you very, very much. >> thank you. neil: ever return the favor to talk about the bond market i will. >> anytime. neil: charlie, thank you very much. very good stuff. this is a group getting the biggest pay raise but also the group that favors socialism. what does it connect and why? ♪

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neil: here comes the new dealing with the old. boeing's new ceo taking over, david calhoun. shares are higher for boeing but they still remain a troubled u.s. plane maker. kristina partsinevelos with the

latest from the new york stock exchange. hey, kristina. reporter: in with the new, out with the old, right? dennis muilenburg, the former ceo worked at boeing for over 30 years, he is walking away with quite a package, $62.2 million. if you're thinking that is a lot, he is not taking his 2019 bonus or any additional severance. who is going to be replacing him, starts today, david calhoun like you mentioned, neil. he is relatively well-known in the industry. he is a blackstone exec. he worked at ge. he has been on the boeing board as a chairman for 10 years. if you're wondering how much is he going to make? 1.4 million base. with millions of dollars in bonuses including $7 million if he should get the max back in the air. another big story, today, you have consolidation in the space with boeing suppliers like woodward and hexal, they have announced plans for a all-stock

merger. this would be one of the largest aerospace suppliers. they would be called woodward hexell they employ 16,000 forces. you can say it has to do with boeing. there is intense pressure on suppliers to reduce emissions and reduce the noise footprint. we're talking big picture. the boeing crisis has rocked the entire industry. treasury secretary steve mnuchin was on wall street with maria bartiromo talking about boeing's crisis and the weight on our economy. listen in. >> there is no question that the boeing, the boeing situation is going to slow down the gdp numbers. boeing is one of the largest exporters. with the 737 max, i think that could impact gdp as much as 50 basis points this year. reporter: i would like to correct myself, it was "sunday morning futures." we know boeing already lost $50 billion in market cap over the last little while. still no word on the timeline

for fixes on all the 737 max jets. we know they're grounded around the world, neil. neil: thank you, kristina. seattle is voting to limit political donations after amazon's spending spree on some local races. deirdre bolton has more. reporter: this is shot across the bow clearly from seattle to amazon. 9% of amazon's stock is owned by foreign investors. if the proposed 5% foreign ownership restriction passes it would reduce amazon's political power. amazon, largest employer flexing its political muscle more and more. may 2016 it successfully fought off a employee head tax on the city's companies. it was meant to address the city's housing crisis. seattle ended up repeating the tax later after a coalition of businesses led by amazon fought to repeal it f you're looking at scorecard, amazon was less successful this november.

it donated a record amount, 1 1/2 million dollars to back pro-business candidates. the campaign was largely unsuccessful t made people anxious. this led to this vote in the seattle council is probably going to go through later for the sate tell city council but the estimation that amazon will take them to court over it. as we go towards our national election, the seattle fight will really renew the debate on the legality of corporate donations in u.s. elections. back to you. neil: deirdre, thank you very, very. young people are seeing the biggest pay raises under president trump right now. will the younger generation reflect the view and vote for him or are they typically more left-leaning, almost socialistic political points, what will ultimately decide what they do at the ballot box? liz peek looking at all of that. what do you think? >> i think they will learn a lesson how the free enterprise system works and they are learning that lesson. when we have a strong economy, a

lot of johns are available, employers have to look for employees and pay them more, it all turns out very well. that is sort of the story of this economy. unfortunately young people have so imbued through their college experience and their schools to think that companies are the big bad thing. look what is going on with amazon story. corporations are now the bad guys. it is going to take a while for young people to turn that around. but it is really a bad thing, because, i think it is warping their view of the economy and politics, everything else. big government will not do better for the young people than big business. they have to get their heads around that. neil: it is built on resentment of success. they might be doing better but they see others doing better than that. this is always the give-and-take in capitalism. i'm doing well. i'm not doing as well as nextfy? >> there is always someone thinner and richer. neil: right. >> for millenials, we're talking about kids younger than

millenials but when millenials came out of school armed with their college diplomas and a lot of college debt, all of sudden they didn't get the kind of jobs they expected. those people in that age category have had a difficult time. they have not started households as early as others. they haven't bought houses. it made them more aware of inequities or inequalities bernie sanders talked about. bernie sanders obviously appealed to the young people. i think again over time, when they see a growing economy, right now, there are half a million manufacturing jobs not being filled. those are really good-paying, to use terrible language, good-paying jobs and all those jobs will eventually go to these young people when they learn the skills and apply themselves to taking them. they are going to move up the chain, but really, i mean, millenials are fascinating to me. they don't really understand that. they don't understand if you stay with a company a long period of time you progress. that is something they really

haven't bought into at all. they have a different approach. neil: some look at companies that lack loyalty to their workers like their parents and are burned by it. >> the financial crisis in '07-08 really warped their view of capitalism. neil: absolutely. >> unfortunately we now have politicians who are sort of doubling down, making them even more cynical about the future of it. neil: all right, to that note, we'll explore it a little more. think about last republican to win over young voters. both elections it was ronald reagan. can donald trump do that? we shall see. meanwhile, elon musk, we know why he was dancing. ♪. we made usaa insurance for members like martin.

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neil: all right, this year could be another big one for initial public offerings. online mattress seller casper, the latest start up filing to go public t could be a very busy offering year. susan li with more. reporter: the first uncorn of 2020 to test the ipo market. casper filing its intent worth a billion dollars. it will be a good test for the appetite of investors especially after 2019's disappointment. this year, 2020 we're expecting a lot of familiar silicon valley names. airbnb is the big one. the ceo wanted to go public this year possibly through a direct listing which means no new stock being sold. casper, food delivery company door dash and postmates. given cash burn of the business they might need the money. draftkings looking at direct listing after being acquired. investors, are they as enthusiastic? they are freshly stung by

unicorn disappointment last year. they might be more gun shy this year. ride-hailing companies, uber, lyft, still down from the ipo share prices. lyft down 40%. uber down 17%. smile direct club, disappointment. both slack and wework, -- down 40%. wework never made it to the ipo because of the questionable behavior of their founder. bill hurley, this guy kicked out travis kalanick from uber, increasingly seems like we're entering a new reality in unicorn land. if you raised $250 million you're not public, the presumption is you are losing way too much money and you probably have bad uneconomics and probably mead to do a lay i don't have. neil: thank you, susan.

alphabet in and out of the trillion dollar market club. it has some cachet and charlie gasparino on investors brushing investors keeping below that. >> susan's report, we have a pretty big story on foxbusiness.com, the softbank vision fund which was big incubator. neil: it a big one. >> as we reported, marsri, a lot thought he would be booted out by so out of the vision fund. he will stay. he is cracking down on their investment policy and matrix, which means less, they're not going to be in the market for a lot of these unicorns. that put as damper on some ipos. getting back to google. here is what we hear from some of our congressional sources. they're buying spree is at astro nam call levels. at least, congress, at policy making level unlikely to see

major legislation to crack down on "fang" stocks, facebook, apple, amazon, google. i guess you might want to throw netflix in there. sometimes they're in the same category. why is that? think about it this year? compact congressional calendar, neil. impeachment in 2020. budget in 2020. and a little thing called the congressional election. no time to beat up on these guys. that doesn't mean elizabeth warren and bernie sanders -- neil: afterwards there would be. seems to be a bipartisan push. >> i would say if democrats control congress there will -- depend where democrats come out? do they win the presidency or control congress? that is where this gets interesting. if you look near term, worried about google getting crushed on legislation we hear that is not even on the, congress is not really going there. they have too many other things to do. that doesn't mean there won't be pressure from the outside on the campaign trail but not in congress. we should also point out today, huge story, tesla is above $500

a share. neil: incredible. now i know why he was dancing. >> you would be dancing too. he is dancing on the graves of the short sellers. this is one of most heavily shorted stock. there is troll committee on twitter with tesla q. with, when you put a q at the end that means you're trading in bankruptcy and highly distressed level f you say one nice thing about elon musk they attack you. they are getting their rear ends handed to them. we put in my winners and losers of 2019, i put elon musk at top of the winners, he turned around. remember he got in trouble, i have funding secure at 420 to take it private. the stock went up. he didn't have the funding secured. people never thought it would hit 420. now it is almost 520. i will say one thing. this stock is not for fan of heart. you have to believe in him, future. neil: the technology. >> the numbers, you start

crunching the numbers they don't add up to 520-dollar stock. doesn't mean it is not worth 520. companies are worth based on value of their -- neil: electric cars. you're anti-modern. you're anti-modern man. >> here is one thing i have with electric cars. every time i need to get a parking space at whole foods, the electric car, space, where only they're always open. so i just flip myself in there. i take it anyway. neil: not a problem if you happen to mcdonald's. >> if you go to california where gas is $5 a gallon. everybody i hear is driving teslas. neil: there you go. >> do you have a tesla yet? neil: no. i want to say i'm a renaissance man. >> you think you're walter cronkite. i heard that. somebody said -- neil: you're a hateful human being. >> certain politicians, you think you're walter cronkite. neil: you're doing this i want you to do this. >> yes, boss. i'm the boss. respect me. neil: walkie-talkies are making

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neil: new jersey governor phil murphy, my bad in the last segment, you would think i would know he is my governor, he wants to raise taxes on millionaires like joe piscopo. this is the third shot after at this the aforementioned. "saturday night live," cast member, talk show host, speaker, you name it. he is at the well again.

>> why? you can't raise taxes anymore in our state, please! stop. this is a very nice guy by the way. we talk about governor murphy. he is one of the nicest guys anywhere. you can't keep taxing us. neil: why do you posit to say he wants to rob you blind but you say he is a nice guy? >> when you meet him you love him. he is a very nice guy. neil: but he keeps revisiting this. and even the democratic relationship in the state are leery of him going too far. >> that is very true. neil: what are they worried about? >> i'm not sure. when the democrats go in they, not common sense democrats, progressive socialists in new york and new jersey, they paint that broad stroke of socialism and they are all on this, a handbook out there somewhere, neil, i'm telling you that they go by. you can't tax us anymore in new jersey. cut the spending. create jobs in the manufacturing arena like, go to patterson, new jersey, go to vineland, new jersey. every time i come on here i want

to run for governor to get everybody crazy, just to jump in. we know how to fix it. the people know how to fix it. neil: they support to hike taxes on wealthy. so he runs against a buzzsaw like sweeneys, council presidents, legislative presidents who say, no, no, but he keeps revisiting it. steve sweeney says it's a mistake, it will chase real money guys out. >> steve sweeney is right. i said off the air. he is head of senate in new jersey senate. he is the man people thought they should he should be governor. with the bloomberg model, everybody buys their way in. sweeney is all right. he is a democrat. neil: he doesn't want a brain drain or money drain. >> how close are you to leaving, mr. big shot? neil: you go, i go. we go, there goes the state. there goes the state. >> we have a u-haul. road trip, road trip. neil: take care, guys. >> down to florida. neil: they're really worried

about it. this is something i want to talk to you about. nbc chairman says "saturday night live" may screen new cast members after shane gillis firing. what do you think of that. >> i think it is ridiculous. when eddie went back, he chose velvet jones. he was so politically incorrect. kenan thompson as game show host, velvet, isn't that politically incorrect. eddie goes, do you like women. keenan says yes i do. eddie looks in the camera, me too. it was, stop the nonsense. neil: gillis jumped the shark, isn't that the argument? they have to rein it in. >> everybody has to stop it. thank god for dave chappelle, eddie murphy. neil: they're only ones that get away with it. >> you're right. eddie was only one could get away with it. neil: if you spoke like that on the show, what do you think? you're iconic figure.

>> you saw there is a bit i want to do here on fox business. i can't. neil: this is -- [inaudible] >> i want to do it. no i won't. i did it once on the show. got one complaint. we're on am 970. i got my buddy, frankie five boroughs, my producer. neil: you have nickname for anybody. five borrows. did you see the is oscar nomination. once again robert de niro not nominated. >> not anything. deolemite is my name. not nominated. i'm not joe pesci. somebody got me on facebook, congratulations on your success with the "the irishman." neil: i saw that. >> somebody at a mall, look who it is it is joe pesci. if i make you laugh like a clown i make you laugh.

neil: do oscars carry more cachet than the globes? >> they do. academy awards, man. it is ultimate. neil: for netflix and other streaming services this is a second shot at the well, right? >> it is pretend. golden globes as great as it was with ricky gervais. that was great. neil: they will not have hosts for this, right? they take turns. everyone is scared. prove if you in people's face you do every day but nicely. >> nicely. you can do it nicely. we may all disagree but we're all in this together. neil, please, we got to keep it nice. [speaking italian] as the italians say. can i speak italian. neil: that's great. what do you mean no cannolis? we have a lot more coming up. iran is cracking down. protests are getting out of control. the signal is, we do not care. in iran they are risking all of that. after this.

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neil: all right. these iran protests are still building. what's odd, though, they are not backing down even in the face of a government that says all right, you stated your case, now you can go away. they're not going away. china, meanwhile, issuing its own warning on iran sanctions ahead of the big signing ceremony on wednesday. keep in mind in these latest sanctions, some chinese institutions are sort of ensnarled in all this. blake burman with the latest from the white house. hey, blake. reporter: a lot going on as it relates to this building and the message coming from the white house. we heard from the president who even sent out a handful of different tweets in persian warning the iranian regime not to harm those protesters inside of iran. his message on twitter was do not kill the protesters. those protests, of course, broke

out after iran fessed up over the weekend to shooting down the ukrainian airlines flight that killed all 176 people on board. iran says it did so unintentionally but as we know, that did not square with its initial claim of that plane having technical issues. once that happened, we saw the protests spill out on to the streets there. the president's national security adviser robert o'brien noting what many others are here stateside which is that the anger in iran has been directed at the regime. listen here. >> what's interesting is they are chanting death to the dictator. unlike past administrations, where there hasn't been support demonstrated for the iranian people, president trump has made it clear throughout his administration that he stands with the people of iran, not with the regime, and we are going to continue to do so. reporter: then you mentioned that china connection. in china today, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry took issue with the recent batch of sanctions that the u.s. has placed on iran as dealings with chinese companies were mentioned

as a part of those sanctions as well. that spokesperson, you see the video here earlier in beijing today, saying that china opposes unilateral sanctions, adding quote, china and iran have carried out mutually beneficial and friendly cooperation in various fields within the framework of international law which is reasonable and legal and does not harm third parties. the interests should be respected and protected. that's the message out of china today. of course, as we know, the vice premier liu he will be here at the white house on wednesday to sign that phase one trade deal. neil? neil: blake, thank you very much. blake burman. stocks in record territory but could iran tensions and maybe something sudden disrupt all of that? we have attorney extraordinaire danielle mcloughlin, dan geltrude and dinese stepman. your take on how these iran sanctions, the latest batch, particularly the ones that

directly and indirectly impact chinese businesses, how they are sorting out right now. will they become an issue come wednesday for this separate signing deal? >> well, that dinner is certainly going to be a little tenser, that dinner before the formal signing. this is just underscoring how these various negotiations are not purely economic. there is a geopolitical angle here. china is going to be our major geopolitical opponent, it looks like, in the next couple decades at least, and all of these things should be viewed through those two lenses. not the pure economic perspective, where of course, it's always better to have free trade in terms of economics, it's better for the united states, it's better for the world, i am a free trader, but geopolitics interferes with that, right, and it's a reality. we have to look at our trade relationships with some countries including china differently than we would, for example, our trade relationships with canada or even mexico, right, because there will be a

geopolitical angle to this, whether it's through this iranian crisis or the many other ways in which u.s. and chinese interests are not aligned geopolitically. we have to think about how much economic leverage we want to give them that they can turn into geopolitical leverage. neil: a lot of people just don't trust them. the issue is that the chinese will not make good on any of their promises no matter what they sign on to. >> yeah. that certainly casts a shadow on where we're going with this phase one deal. i also want to bring out how incredible it is in terms of the stock market and our relationship with china, specifically on this trade deal. we were on the brink of a military conflict with iran, right, and the market had a very slight blip and then bang, wanting to go up more and more and more. but any time we -- neil: it would have been that if it didn't turn out the way it did. >> you know what else is incredible about it, during that period of time, we saw gold dropping and oil dropping, which i certainly didn't expect with

the potential military conflict. but the market extraordinarily sensitive to whatever happens with china. now, i think once we get past phase one and are on to phase two, i think the market will become extremely sensitive once again as to where we're going to go. neil: does it rattle the democrats that the president gets a trade deal, takes us off the ledge with iran? we can talk about whether he precipitated the events but they are coming up short on some of these key issues that could help them win back the white house? >> i think there's no question that the economy is sort of the ticket for the president to re-election next year. i think this is clearly a huge political win for him to get this done on wednesday and in fact if it gets signed. in some respects just the fact of that happening is probably enough, because we are not going to know whether china behaves itself or not probably as it relates to i.p., until after the election. to dan's point about phase two being more important, this is some promises to buy, about $50 billion worth of u.s. goods,

some lukewarm promises on i.p. and financial services, really where the rubber hits the road from a calendar perspective, whether they will commit to any of these things happens after the election. it's a win for him politically but whether this eventuates in a way no american president has been able to do since china joined the wto in 2001 and decided to play nice, but they have been doing this since then. neil: you know, that's one of the other things that comes up in this discussion is that democrats are fighting this improving economy, the president maybe dodging a bullet, to dan's point, in iran or maybe methodically dealing with that, but that they have got to counter some way. how do they? >> it's hard to see. i think they will probably take a turn on cultural issues and run on cultural issues, run against the president on issues other than the economy. but it depends on who they nominate. we are talking about what we might expect -- neil: what if it's bernie sanders? >> if they nominate bernie

sanders, that's probably going to have some effect on the markets and the economy, having an avowed self-described socialist as the alternative will make the president's message on this economy all that much stronger. he's going to say look -- neil: you know, you could flip it around, though, i mean, that was the census building if donald trump were the nominee, remember hillary clinton forces were saying we hope it's donald trump, we hope it's donald trump because we can take him out. they didn't. so i'm wondering if republicans are getting ahead of themselves thinking that, you know, a bernie sanders is easily beatable. >> i don't know -- >> i don't think he's easily beatable, by the way. neil: all right. i agree. but i just think they are dismissing him. go ahead. >> bernie sanders is a different kind of candidate than we have seen before, in terms of how far left he's taken the democratic party. i would not count bernie sanders out. it was a strange thing, right, that a lot of bernie sanders' supporters back in the last

election actually moved to donald trump as opposed to staying in line with hillary clinton. so there's a dynamic here with bernie sanders that can't be discounted. >> to your point about how the democrats sort of talk about the economy and talk about trade, we have record numbers with small farms since 2011, we have overall records as it relates to farm deals, about $400 billion. these tariffs did a huge amount of harm on a microand macro level and in some respects, we are back where we were if these tariffs had not been in place three years earlier. neil: but you are still fighting a macro trend in the president's favor, whether or not you like the president. i'm wondering if that -- [ speaking simultaneously ] neil: the quality jobs, the individual, small businesses that have been hurt, that's a tough sell in the aggregate, isn't it? >> again, he in some ways, if you rip something up, then remake it two years later on the eve of an election, whatever sort of happens, he's very good at messaging and creating a

victory even though if we look at the numbers, we could have avoided this without the and -- neil: surprisingly you don't agree. >> you talk about farmers, talk about bankruptcy, talk about the human cost of this. >> i don't think it's a winning argument for the democrats to fight trump on the economy. i'm not disagreeing with everything that you are saying related to, you know, could we have gotten to this place two years ago that we are in phase one, perhaps. but i still don't think that that is going to swing the election. i have no doubt that donald trump is going to trumpet this as a win related to china, phase two won't happen until after the election. so for him, it's a win. >> but is it smoke and mirrors, that's the question democrats have to ask. do you take the top line with this new deal which really you could have done two years ago and not pour $28 billion -- neil: we have gotten into that this president should be up

given the strong economy double digits but he's not for a variety of reasons, personality, tweeting, will that hurt him in november? what do you think? >> look, i absolutely think they don't have a great economic message. the democrats don't have a great economic message because this economy is not only doing well in the stock market, right, we have great numbers when it comes to lower income americans and the job numbers among lower income americans. we have great numbers when it comes to millenials. so the benefits of this economy are distributing more than perhaps the last two economic booms. so i really don't think there's a strong economic message for them to run on. i do want to clarify, i don't think it will be that easy to beat berniened sae ersanders at. i think he probably could have run a stronger race than hillary clinton last time around because exactly those voters who -- neil: i think you're right. >> -- a lot of them are bernie bros and might return to bernie sanders because in some ways, especially on trade, especially on some of those issues, bernie sanders and donald trump don't

actually have that different a message, and that's when some of the other issues with the president might become more important. neil: i think you're right. which should make you change your mind right now. that alone. all right. thank you. meantime, michael bloomberg is willing to spend upwards of $1 billion to defeat donald trump. it's a rounding error, but he's willing to do it. after this. our retirement plan with voya gives us confidence. they help us with achievable steps along the way... so we can spend a bit today, knowing we're prepared for tomorrow. wow dad, do you think you overdid it maybe? i don't think so... what do you think, peanut? nope! honey, do you think we overdid it? overdid what? see? we don't think so, son. technically, grandparents can't overdo it. it's impossible. well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement.

neil: all right. michael bloomberg is serious, serious enough to want to spend a billion bucks on ads for the democratic nominee, even if that nominee doesn't turn out to be michael bloomberg. to former bush 43 deputy chief

of staff, bestselling author karl rove on what that money will buy. what do you think, karl? >> it will buy a lot. $1 billion, it will buy a lot. look, in a general election, it could cover the air waves. now, people who will profit most from this are the people who own television stations, but if michael bloomberg follows through on his promise or his threat, it could have an impact on the general election. think about the impact of hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising, for example in three states, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. there were 13.6 million votes cast in those three states and president trump won them by a total of 77,000 votes. it could have an impact. neil: i guess the first big wave will start as soon as the super bowl. i think you've got a $10 million ad buy, the president has something similar. are ad buys in the year of the election, months and months

before the general election, you know, obviously just, you know, around the same time as the primaries and whathave you, what do they buy you? >> i'm not certain that they necessarily buy a lot. i think there are two points in a campaign where, in a presidential campaign, where advertising has an effect. it has an effect obviously in the closing weeks of the campaign when you have a relatively small number of people in the electorate, 8%, 10%, 12%, 15% at most who are deciding whether or not to vote and who to vote for. advertising can have an effect there. advertising can also have an effect if it resonates with the voters and helps cement an opinion about a candidate that they might have when that advertising is run in the spring when a candidate has largely secured the nomination and looks like they're going to be the nominee of their party and is out of cash, out of gas and the opposition comes in with advertising to go after them. this happened with mitt romney, for example, after he sort of

secured the nomination in 2012. the obama campaign unleashed on him as a rich guy out of touch with the ordinary americans. this happened in 2004, by sort of semi by accident, this was the famous episode where the bush campaign spent maybe $13,000, $15,000 to buy a tv ad in huntington, west virginia and when john kerry was going there and he made the famous statement about the bill funding the troops while they were under fire in iraq, i actually voted for that bill before i voted against it, that helped provide, you know, present the opportunity to identify him as a flip flopper. but outside of those two moments, advertising needs to be sustained and at a period where -- at a point in time where people are making a decision or trying to frame up what they think about the respective candidate. neil: i also think there's a difference if you are a well-known entity versus someone who is kind of well known. in bloomberg's case, i can even

remember here in this city when he first ran, a lot of new yorkers didn't know who he was. but his ads are everywhere. they were very polished, very slick, and they were constant, constant, constant. i think that can make a difference as well. what do you think? >> well, yeah, particularly in a mayoral election. but you know, very few people knew him in 2001 when he ran, and not only then but new york has a very low turnout rate so the advertising can have an effect. i think it's less so in a presidential election. i think you're right, when people run for president we sort of know who they are by the end of the campaign, but advertising is important if it sort of crystallizes the choice that voters have to make. do you want a strong leader, for example, in 2004 or a flip flopper? do you want the guy who seems to understand you or the guy who is a rich, out of touch plutocrat. that's why it could be dangerous in the fall of 2020 if bloomberg

follows through on this, if he can find the right argument or arguments to make in these states that are going to be very very close and marginally affect the outcome. long time between here and next october. neil: it could also be a defining event for bloomberg. for him it was 9/11, then the blessing of rudy giuliani. we can go back to the 2008 election between mccain and obama where they were even relatively before the meltdown. the meltdown changed everything. >> right. absolutely. the fact one seemed to have a response to it and the other one, remember this is where john mccain made in my opinion the big mistake of saying i'm going to shut down my campaign and i'm not going to go back on the trail until we've got this resolved but he had no plan, no idea what to do and obama steps in at the white house meetings, has a united democrat front, supports bush in his troubled asset program and looks like he is leading and a lot of things that seemed great about john mccain but his economic -- grasp

of economic issues was not necessarily the best. neil: you made up for the fact that for my show, you just wrote the figure $1 billion -- >> would you like to see that again? neil: some people, it's real detailed line by line. >> i'm blown away by the $1 billion number. $1 billion. neil: thank you, karl rove. in the meantime, the queen, speaking of billions, she just gave her okay for harry and meghan to move across the pond. why money was part of that decision. part of it. after this. any comments doug? yeah. only pay for what you need with liberty mutual. only pay for what you need with liberty mutual. con liberty mutual solo pagas lo que necesitas. only pay for what you need...

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wife meghan markle move to canada at least part-time. whatever that means. ashley webster joins us with more. you were very interested in that statement. ashley: yeah, there's a statement from the queen after this harry facing the music essentially, this summit at sondringham. i think it was written by a grandmother, i really do. she's normally extremely correct and somewhat uptight as the queen in her statements, but i think this was -- there was the grandmother coming through here. what was interesting, this is what's being talked about in the uk, harry and meghan are part of this and made clear they do not want to be reliant on public funds and she goes on to talk again about harry and meghan, the fact she's using harry and meghan leads some to speculate, which is dangerous, they are going to not have their royal titles. but she does talk about the sussexes as well in the same thing. how does that work out, what is going to happen to the royal title -- neil: what is their royal obligation? it's like a few months a year. ashley: well, in 2018, harry had

2 221, you know, events that he had to be present at. meghan markle had 83. you know, some would say not bad work for the money because they have a ton of money. neil: they will make a lot of money now. ashley: it's interesting. i don't know if you have seen the video that's come out of harry talking to bob iger on the red carpet at the premiere at "lion king" in london, right there. you can't hear it but there has been a translation, he's basically gone from the duke of sussex to hollywood agent, saying have you heard my wife, she will be perfect for a voiceover, you should really listen to what she can do. bob iger like i am talking to a duke, he's pitching his wife to me. it's all a bit awkward and a strange place to do it. but it turns out she is going to do something for disney. i wonder if harry gets any commission. neil: yeah. such a cynical view of this. ashley: i'm sorry. but it is the emodern world.

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of late. big earners and small stores all combining to produce some surprising success. jackie deangelis is outside a target in manhattan with the latest. hey, jackie. jackie: good afternoon, neil. that's right, the heart of the upper east side, a very affluent area here and this target mini store popped up right before the holidays. they are winning in retail, they are opening stores while peers like bed & bath are closing stores and brick and mortar is struggling generally. target revamped its online and in-store experience and it's using brick and mortar to complement that, if you will. you can buy online, you can pick it up in the store, you could return here as well. that is a plus for a lot of people that live around here. plus when you go in, you may buy

a few extra things, too. a lot of people flock to this store for their grocery items in the neighborhood. they say it's a lot cheaper than the local groceries and the mom and pop stores. now, target's clientele, get this, little bit less than 25% of visitors make $100,000 or more so ceo brian cornell is really trying to capitalize on that market and expand on it. the stores are clean, they are sleek, they are modern, they are really well liorganized, you go exactly what you need when you need it and what's interesting here is that stores, high end and low end, are doing this. they are the winners in retail. they are able to bring the experience online and in store together. so nordstrom just across town with that flagship store, similar experience where it's working. but bed & bath couldn't manage to make it work. you take a look at some of these stocks and the proof is in the pudding for target, up 85% from its 52-week low. the stock reflecting buyer and consumer sentiment. one last note, across town,

upper west side, they are opening one of these, too. back to you. neil: jackie, thank you very, very much. meanwhile, microsoft and samsung are teaming up to bring back the walkie-talkie. this time one for workers. this coming as a lot of smartphones offer this feature. everyone's like dick tracy right now. how is this all going to help with productivity? danielle and dan join us. what do you think? >> for one thing, you don't have to carry a pager, and a phone, the idea that you can have this app on your phone so you're not carrying around too much when you are walking whether you are in a hospital, a retail store or maybe even -- [ speaking simultaneously ] neil: he's got a series of tones that gets kids in a room. so are you using devices you have and they are having that function or is it a separate thing? >> i think it's an app within your phone, so it gives you the ability to --

>> right. neil: i have this on my watch, that function, right? i can talk and if you have an apple watch, you can talk with that. >> i don't really see the benefit of this. this feature coming in. unless like -- neil: like when we started this idea for a segment on it? [ speaking simultaneously ] neil: the japanese have kind of taken things the a whole new level here. japanese billionaire is now looking for a life partner to travel with him to the moon. what do you think? >> well, i was thinking about this, because it's a whole application process and i'm going to disclose right now, in the green room, danielle was looking over that application online very carefully. i don't know what that means. neil: what happens in the green room -- >> apologize.

my bad. but i was thinking about he's going to have a show and a competition related to actually making the selection of this lucky lady who's going to go to the moon with him so i was thinking, the theme of this has to be fly me to the moon, and we have joe piscopo singing. neil: that is not bad. >> right? tell me that's not a winner. neil: he's obviously got the money to make all of this happen. not dan, the billionaire. right? >> sure. neil: what do you think of this whole approach? >> look, mankind has been looking for love in space for a long time. captain kirk, han solo, luke skywalker. neil: these are all fictional characters. >> i actually want to know more about the application, it's fairly involved. one important thing that really counts me out is you can't be a member of the gang. as you know, i have been associated with gangs in my

past. i'm married so it's probably an issue. my husband is probably watching right now. don't worry, i'm not going to the moon with this man from japan. neil: this is another private enterprise effort, if you think about it. this is the future of space that we get back in a big way, it's this. this is the kind of stuff that would be going on. >> it's also part of elon musk's, you know, journey to the moon. neil: he's paying for it with the stock that's over $500. >> applications are due on friday. >> i wasn't kidding about -- [ speaking simultaneously ] >> not yet but there can always be a first. neil: all right. all right. real quick, while i have you here, this idea of bernie sanders surge, i don't know why we are saying this after the moon thing, but he has a very good shot at this nomination now. what do you think? >> look, he created a groundswell of incredible support and passion when he ran

against hillary clinton. so he comes to this race really with the advantages that no other candidate has, and that is not only name recognition, huge numbers of fund-raisers and really, a very very clear message. we have seen a little back-and-forth with some of the others. you know -- neil: he's the genuine article. he's not changed his mind. >> that's the appeal with him, really, put the ideas aside of what he espouses to. voters look at him, he's genuine, real and trustworthy. neil: absolutely. i first interviewed him when he was mayor of burlington, vermont in the early '80s. he's the same now that he was then. he's not veered or done anything politically correct, whether you agree or disagree with his positions, not a phony bone in that body. >> that's very appealing to the voters. i think he's going to be a force to contend with. neil: all right. put him up in a rocket, see what happens. you're going to the moon.

meantime, renewed rush to soak the rich in new jersey. you would be for this, right? >> i don't even know what it is. neil: they are soaking in new jersey, garden state, no less. after this. this is the age of expression. but shouldn't somebody be listening? so. let's talk. we're built for hearing what's important to you, one to one. edward jones. it's time for investing to feel individual. tit's great actually, i've been listening to audible. it's audiobooks, news, meditations... gotta go! ♪ ♪ hey!

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we have all heard -- we have all been hearing these little bits and pieces of conversation about, you know, i don't know, if china is making the router, if they are making some of the back end technology, for our internet connected devices, there could be security concerns because our private data passes through these devices, it's going on to wherever you say it's going to go. neil: how would you know as a buyer that there's a connection with the chinese? >> you would not know that. that's kind of the concern here. it's an interesting -- i remember hearing about this in the beginning of last year, where they were talking about concerns that, you know, the drones you are flying them over your house, taking videos, taking pictures, that stuff could potentially be transmitted to beijing. one of the work-arounds they were talking about last year is let's just not let the drones be wirelessly connected to anything. everything goes on to a memory card, pop the card out, put it in your computer, you kind of cut out the wireless part where who knows what it's doing. but this is an interesting step. it also is a good reminder, you

know, we could make stuff here in the u.s. neil: there is that. >> there is that. we could make drones in the u.s. there is a company mentioned in the "financial times" had a great article, they talked about a company in the u.s. that's struggling the make drones because they are competing with china and china has a ability i guess we could say of well, we can make that, too, and we will just make it cheaper. neil: yeah. >> we have seen that time and again with technology from china. there you can see, 70%, excuse me, i said 80% off the top, 70% of the global market of drones made by this one chinese company. neil: we touched on it before but what was the big takeaway from the consumer electronics show? i saw the push for 8k tvs, even 16k. there isn't content for it yet. >> there is not content for it. that actually came up when i was seeing the stuff lg had to show. tvs are beautiful, amazing. the problem with these -- even with the 4k and now the 8k which is twice as much, that's a lot

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neil: could this be a slam dunk for gm? nba superstar lebron james is reportedly set to star in a super bowl ad for a new general motors electric hummer. the vehicle is expected to go on sale by early 2022. an electric hummer. that's like an oxymoron. major retailers adding to the robot revolution, walmart is now planning to add self-scanning robots to 650 more u.s. stores by the end of the summer. this is how you fight amazon. you do stuff like that. meanwhile, the third time could be the charm. new jersey governor phil murphy is renewing his push for higher taxes on the rich. during his state of the state speech tomorrow. he's facing resistance not only from republicans, of course, but even leading democrats, including the council president. to cheryl casone on how they could push people to move elsewhere. she is subbing for charles payne today. he's back at the well again, isn't he? cheryl: this is the thing, these

governors never learn. even a key democrat under the governor of new jersey, governor murphy, said you can't tax your way out of everything, this isn't the answer. you are right, folks are going to continue to leave, not just new jersey but connecticut and new york and massachusetts and all these other high tax states, because this is the only way that they seem to be able to solve their fiscal problems. how about spending less, how about cutting corners, how about putting your state on a budget and sticking to it. none of these states at least in the tristate area around here seem to be able to fathom what that is even like. then of course there's the other option, property taxes. let's go after homeowners. that's the same effect. then these homeowners are like that's it, i'm selling, i'm leaving and i'm going to florida. it's warmer. well, okay, not over the weekend. maybe it was warmer here than florida. neil: no, it is interesting. we will see how it sorts out. but he keeps trying and trying and trying. we'll see what happens. but it's divided the democratic party as well. we will watch it closely. see you in about nine minutes. thank you, cheryl.

meantime, this is a feel-good kind of story. a barmaid famous by "goodfellas" not having to say good baechlt the tavern avoiding a last call after the city intervened in a deal with the bar's landlord. the tavern owner is a guy who kind of helped make all this possible. very good to have you. >> thanks for having me. neil: you were on the brink. what happened? >> i wrote a letter to all of my subscribers to our e-mail list and i had to be honest, i was at the end. i tried all i could and no one else was there to really help. my rent is just jacking up. i wrote a letter saying that's it, i'm done. neil: who do you write it to? >> i wrote it to 2,000 of my e-mail subscribers, our customer community who care. neil: it went viral? >> all of a sudden my phone literally blew up. it was just --

neil: did they know you were in the dire straits you were in until they got your letter? >> they didn't know how bad it was. last year, they do know that the building was sold and people didn't know what was happening. but i was trying to give the building owner, you know, some sense of doing the right thing so i never really said too much. i just kind of kept it between me and the building owner. but these negotiations for month stopped. we can't operate with no lease. neil: it's such an iconic name. we know it from "goodfellas" but so much more. did you ever try to recruit joe pesci or some other big players? >> not only myself but we had a team, a small team that was passionate. it's an iconic film. people come there and take selfies in the same spot. we try, we tried and tried and tried and you know, these guys are busy so us small guys, we don't really have a chance. neil: maybe you can work something out, he's been nominated for an oscar, if you say something about us in your

acceptance speech, it could do something. >> it took the mayor to come. neil: explain how that all came about. >> well, you know, i was again, i wrote that letter and i was still trying for the last, only a couple days left before i closed the doors and someone said you can call in, you can call in and speak to the mayor. guess what? i actually got through. i told him the story and he was literally very dismayed by this whole situation. he started putting the wheels in progress and next thing you know, we're sitting in the room, locked the door with the mayor and the city on the line saying you guys don't leave until you have a deal that works for everyone. two hours later, we walked out -- neil: they didn't throw someone in the trunk of a car and force them to change, right? >> there was a ploy, you know. neil: you got the financing. that was the critical part, right? explain how it works now. >> there's these grants for local businesses that's available, so i had to apply

before so they just say wow, you had applied before, let's use that to help defray some of the rental costs, right, and while you get your foot back in and kind of get everything together. so it was complex but we actually made it happen where it worked for the landlord, it worked for the business owner and it worked for the community and the city of new york. neil: you are a modest guy. none of this would have happened without you. you were relentless about it, you put the word out, you got it out. now you've just got to get the foot traffic to confirm you paid the right move, right? >> well, of course, this weekend we might not have a problem. neil: i don't think you will have a problem. >> i have never seen it this busy my entire life, being open 11 years i have been there. i mean, people reacted and they came strong. i have never seen this. we ran out of everything. so we are reloading and trying to get back our footing like a local business that we have always been. neil: it's a remarkable story. what kind of reaction just in your family have you gotten? this was a hail mary pass on your part and it worked. i always was telling you in the break, this could serve as a reminder to communities that hold certain institutions to be

precious to fight for them. >> right. you know, i want to make one point, you know. you have to understand the balance. it's a balance act. we all have to make profits, the landlord, the business owner, but what if you just rip down central park and put up skyscrapers? it's the best use of the money profitability wise but what are we losing? what are we losing? we are losing culture, right? we have to think about that when we just try to go straight for profitability. we are losing something. so neir's tavern disappears, it's a cultural institution, right? we have to understand and have balance in our relationship with profit and community. neil: yeah. money goes in and out. radio city music hall was on the brink, going back decades, they said there's going to be another name there. no, there's only one radio city. they didn't give up and of course now it's thriving. you are a reminder don't give up. >> people have said this is like the "field of dreams." neil: it is. >> i was like what? so whatever it is -- neil: i'm putting you in charge of our nation's debt.

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neil: you know you heard on an ad or two on this network that fox business is invested in you and we mean that and we want to hear from you. we'll be holding a live audience show on january 22nd. go to foxbusiness.com for the details, help you steer through the new year. all the ideas that make sense in english. we're enthusiastic we are looking at you. we mean that, when we talk about fair and balanced making sure we got your back. we do mean that. right now the question for democrats, whose back will they ultimately have? there is a growing revote in the party for the consensus candidates that have eye merged.

for example president obama's former personal aide, reggie love is not too keen on popular names mentioned right now, including joe biden, including bernie sanders. at 4:00 p.m. eastern time he will tell us who he does like. let's go to cheryl in for charles. cheryl: i'm share casone in for charles payne. major banks start reporting tomorrow. the u.s. china trade deal set to be signed on wednesday. we have got you covered with it all, including a live report from the white house.