maria: dagen mcdowell and brian, thank you "varney & co." begins right now appeared take it away, stu. stuart: i shall, good morning. when the president was impeached and yes, silence the markets went up. we are looking beyond politics to the wall money that will hit wall street, well now, we see the first installment of the money, but stocks are going down, perhaps it's a case of cell on the news with the dow jones looking at a near 200-point loss. significant loss for the

s&p, but the nasdaq only down fractionally. we have news on a biting tax proposal that would tax you are again in the stock market every year. that may be one of the negatives hitting the market this morning and so is this, very long lines to get vaccinated. confusion about who can get the shot and when. the vaccination miss would stretch our recovery from the virus. that is money, turning to politics, washington dc is tense with five days till the inauguration. all streets leading to the capital are now blocked national guard troops. president-elect biden train ride has been canceled and the sunday's rehearsal for the inauguration has been postponed until monday. security concerns. then there is this, in a court filing on jacob chamblee, the man in the horned helmet, the

filing argues he intended to quote capture and assassinate elected officials including vice president pens. tense indeed. on the show today we will look at petco and poshmark as they went public thursday in the stock price went up and today is today's premarket prices. yesterday, when they went public, it was the hedge fund managers and made a real killing. the left wants revenge for the trumpet years even going after the degrees that kayleigh mcenany and of senator cruise. we will try for relief with friday feedback at the end of the show. "varney & co." is about to begin. ♪♪

stuart: a rather gloomy new york city as of this morning and joe says feeling all right. president-elect to joe biden unveiling his $1.9 trillion american rescue plan last night. roll of tape. >> a rescue plan includes immediate relief to americans hardest hit in most in need. we will finish the job of getting a total of $2000 in cash relief to people who needed the most. of the $600 already appropriated is not enough. i know what i just described is not come cheaply, but failure to do so will cost us dearly. stuart: on your screen, some of the items in this plan including $1400 in additional stimulus checks, 350 billion in a state local government assistance and a 15-dollar minimum wage at the

federal level. we will get into this with more details are at the show. looking out what's happening on the market this morning in light of this revelation last night, we are down especially the dow industrials with 200-point loss as of now, for the dow jones, lost for the nasdaq and s&p as well. jonathan hoenig with us. jonathan, you say all this spending plus the inauguration, tax on big tech, they are bringing-- they are going to bring on a correction. i have to tell you, you are one of the few people on wall street that is telling me too watch out. >> i think now is the time and of course everyone needs to make their own decision based on their own context, but i believe it's coming. for one thing, the market is overwrought, 88% of stocks above their 200 day losing average along with citigroup panic euphoria model. they have been looking back at 1987 during periods of euphoria and

right now, we are at a whole time-- all-time high in the spending is the biggest of all. joe biden is talking about spending, look i remember the markets fell 40% after the 2008 stimulus was passed, fell for another four months, so this idea is all we need to do is throw money at the economy, didn't work in 2008 neither did the higher taxes or higher regulation and put it all together and add on top of that that attacks on big tech, this was the fuel of the bull market but over the last three months facebook, amazon, netflix is all down, lagging behind. it's one of the number of reasons why i think the time is for caution in the markets. stuart: caution in the markets, you are looking for a correction of some point it when do you think we will get that correction? is there a trigger that you can point to that would produce heavy-- heavy selling all of a sudden? >> i think you need to keep your eye on the big

dogs, i mean, if it won't be facebook, amazon, netflix leading it higher, what will it be? strongest stocks lately has been a lot of the weak dollar plays, commodity plays, foreign stock and speculated stock, the russell 2000 is the smallest dog and it's at an all-time high and that's what we tend to see at the tail end of the bull market, bitcoin is leading the way and now is a great time to diversify. i don't think you dump your portfolio, but be selective about avoiding names in governments crosshairs, specifically big tech. stuart: jonathan, we consider ourselves a warrant. thank you. see you soon. we have a new study and it's giving us more insight into the virus and into immunity. dr. marc siegel is with us. he's the author of the book covid, the author of fear and power of science.

doctor, this a study says you are only immune for five months after you have had the virus. that doesn't sound good. sounds like it's the flu >> is actually better than that, stuart. it's called the cyber in the study out of england and over 6500 volunteers had antibodies showing they had covid, but they study them for five months and out of the 6600 only 42 got sick. i think those 42 may not have even been really have had the virus, so i would say it's way more than five months. other studies have shown it's more than a year and i think what the study shows is a high level of immunity to covid-19 once you have had its. it's actually good news. stuart: okay. i'm sorry, i got it wrong. we will take your interpretation. after you have had the virus, can you still carry it? >> yeah, you can carry

it after you have had it, but they are again, the ability you had to transmitted after you have had or after you've been vaccinated based on studies out of israel, its looks like if you have had it or had the vaccine, the chances of you transmitting it are very very low. stuart, that's how we will get out of this pandemic. that how we will get out of this mess, for people getting over covid and once we vaccinate the vast majority, we will slow spread to the point where the economy completely reopens. that's my production for the late summer and fall stuart: this is better interpretation on the study than i was expecting. thank you, doctor. hold on, i'm sure you have seen this, long long lines of people waiting to get vaccinated. the vaccination process isn't going well. we have it on the screen now. this is from california.

was the problem here? >> messaging from our politicians because now new york and california, the governor say if you are over 65 you can get the vaccine. i get hundreds of calls a day saying i'm over 65 and i say we don't actually have the doses and that's the problem. might want-- all we have are the doses left for those for their second shot, so it's fine to promise people over 65, but if we get everyone over the age of 65 vaccinated it will cut the death rate down anonymously in the hospitalization rate down, but politicians and the governors of these blue states had better watch it with all these promises. you need the vaccines to back it up. distribution still is that what we needed to be. stuart: and it's not a very efficient process at this point of actually putting the vaccines into people's arms. it's not efficient

prosit-- process just yet, is it? >> no. we need the pharmacies more involved. down in florida publix is getting involved and that's good, walgreens, cosco, that will help enormously. when we rely on medical centers and clinics it's not efficient enough. may be one third to to one how the vaccines that have been delivered to new york have been administered. we need way more than that percentagewise. stuart: got it. dr. marc siegel, thank you for joining us. newly leaked video reveals twitter's chief, jack dorsey, admitting president trump said they are is just the beginning of a quote much bigger movement. watch lists. >> we are focused right now, but this will be much bigger than just one account and it will go on much longer than just this date for this week, the next few weeks and beyond the

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2019. not bad. a judge will make a decision soon on parler versus amazon. remember amazon dropped parler social network, drop them and put them out of business. they are going to court. how soon could we hear? lauren: the quote from the judge, stuart is as quickly as possible and she will decide on whether amazon to hook-- should put parler back online but it's a more measured approach than parler hoped for as its 12 million pot-- followers have been in the dark since the week in. parler sued amazon monday asking for an emergency water to force amazon to restore their platform. they said they were blindsided by amazon's decision and their argument is remaining off-line would kill their business at the time it was set to skyrocket. that means parler that president trump would sign up for parler after

he was booted from twitter, but that didn't happen and the ceo of the parler is a saying that's the whole point, amazon made sure president trump didn't have a platform anywhere else. stuart: yeah, and really put them out of business. we hope we will hear sam. thank you. more on censorship. twitter whistleblower leaked a tape of ceo jack dorsey telling staff there is more to come, i guess more censorship. roll tape. >> we are focused on one account, but this will be much bigger than just one account. it's going to go on for much longer than this day, this week, the next few weeks, it will go beyond by on inauguration. our platform is trying every single measure and our role is to protect the conversation. stuart: sounds like dynamite to

me. let's bring in congressman greg steube from florida, republican. congressman, he just said it's bigger than just one account and will go on beyond the inauguration. sounds like an ongoing plan to censor conservative opinions. what are you going to do about this? >> well, i have a bill by file that would not allow twitter and facebook and amazon and google to do the things they have been doing and censoring conservative speech. it creates a market dominance test. is the social platform and if they are market dominant in the marketplace, then they would qualify and if they are censoring speech or violating your first amendment rights, you would then have the ability-- it would remove section 230 liability protection and you would have the private right of cause of action to violate lawsuit against facebook or twitter so when the "new york post" story-- story was censored on hunter biden the "new york post" could have filed a lawsuit against twitter at that moment

and either gotten damages or had them rectify the situation of the censorship. stuart: congressman, hold on. i want to repeat what twitter, they have a statement issued to foxnews and here's what they said, the remarks showed in the video were delivered to around more than 5400 employees and are nearly the same words jack shared in a recent tweet thread offering context around and reflections on our work to protect the conversation in recent weeks. at me move on from there. if we made social media like a newspaper where you could be sued for what you print, is that what you are talking about, is that the nature of your bill and what it actually stop the censorship of conservatives? >> that's absolutely what the point is. the reason why twitter and facebook gets away with this is because of section 230 liability protection they haven't federal law protecting them. and they can do whatever they want because they know nothing can happen

to them but newspapers like the "new york post" or foxnews or other needed media platforms can do that because they don't have liability protection, so the reason why twitter and facebook act this way is because there's no legal repercussions for censoring conservatives, so by taking away in reforming that section 230 liability protection , big market dominant social media platform i think you would see a curve in the behavior because the "new york post", the president and others went twitter fans or sensors them, they would have a private right of cause of action to file a lawsuit and you can to do that right now. stuart: do you think the censorship is a real threat to our democracy? seems to me we are just clamping down on free speech and forcing us into a narrow band of opinion which we may or may not share. i think it's serious business. >> absolutely is a series of because facebook and twitter and google and amazon are so dominant in the marketplace just like what you see with the

president and what you see what's happening with parler, so amazon takes them off and suddenly their businesses out of business, for these specific companies to have that much control, the conversation of those americans in our country is absolutely appalling and it violates our first amendment rights of because they are so big and because they have gotten so big because the federal government has given them liability protection through section 230. absolutely needs to be reformed at my bill will do it and protect first amendment rights in america. stuart: congressman, greg steube thank you for joining us >> great to see you. stuart: we have google banning political ads ahead of the president-elect biden inauguration. tell me more. ashley: good morning. 's the suspending political ads in any reference to quote impeachment, inauguration or protest that the us capitol. google says it routinely

pulls ads over unpredictable sensitive events and when asked it says it can be used to split the event or amplified misleading information. the company said they will be extremely vigilant about enforcing its policy on any ad that it believes crosses the line. advertisers won't be able to run ads referencing candidates, the election, the outcome, the biden inauguration, presidential impeachment process, violets at the us capitol or any future planned protests regarding those topics. stu. stuart: that is a blanket, stop don't say anything about all of that. that's a blanket censure i don't think we've ever seen anything like this before. ashley: no, i don't think so. certainly, that basically covers everything that could be deemed associated with these events and is a silencing the massive, is it not?

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stuart: the worst on prices at this friday when we open the markets in a couple minutes, down almost 200 for the dow jones industrials. i want to show you poshmark and petco and these are today's premarket prices. yesterday when they debuted both went to the moon with poshmark up 141% yesterday and petco up 63%. gary kaltbaum joins us. is this the froth and speculation you have been warning about, gary >> it's worrisome and some of these companies coming public are very good companies, but the valuations are outrageous and they air will be repercussions. all i can tell you is i see companies that have 80, 90 billion-dollar market limits with

500 million in sales and lose money and that just can't stand. the good news is they are public and the bad news i think they will have to work off the froth of speculation and i have to say i watched jonathan hoenig earlier and that was a massive on explaining how extreme sentiments to the upside can hurt the market in the short run, great job by him. stuart: good step. here's a question for you, gary. do you think it's okay, do you think it's right for hedge fund managers to make so much money on the petco's and the poshmark's of this world when the people who created the company get less when he goes public? i mean, hedge fund managers made a killing yesterday. >> welcome to markets and welcome to wall street. of this is how it works. you never know who's going to make out more, who's going to make out less. of they do contracts at every level.

they do investing at every tranche, as they say, and some adds up very big winners and some less so and it's just the nature of the beast. is the way it goes and it's been going on for ages, stuart. stuart: left hand side of the screen, big bank stocks, big financials i should stay-- say, they all reported and they are all down with stock prices are down premarket this morning. what's that telling you? >> they had a big run. there's nothing wrong. i looked at the numbers and they look good. you have to realize that interest rates have been backing up on the long and and when you have short-term rates at zero and interest rates going up on the long and it increases margins and helps the stock prices over the last couple of months it's just a pullback. i would not sweat it. it's as normal as normal can be and i think goldman sachs is like up 40% over the last of a months. j.p. morgan from 100 to

135, 140 so it's normal at this juncture. stuart: gary, we will watch for the correction. gary kaltbaum, thank you for joining us. they are ringing the bell and that means we open very very soon. we are looking for maybe 200-point loss for the dow industrials when trading begins. it's begun. down 183, down above a half of a percentage point loss. that's the dow industrials. down 190 as we speak. s&p 500, losses fractional. getting between a third and a half of percentage point. nasdaq composite is only down a fraction. that means maybe the big techs are coming back a little from yesterday's selloff. lets look at the big banks. they have open for business and yes they are down to the biggest loss is wells fargo which is down 4% and his

city is down 4% as well. zoom, you know that stock has almost become a verb as it's been named the 2021 top stock pick by leading investor firm on wall street. lauren, guess they expect more zoom at meetings this year? lauren: maybe once or you don't have to look at yourself in the camera and say i need botox. what am i talking about? bernstein is bullish on the part of the zoom meeting called the zoom phone, the phone call. they say those calls have passed the 1 million mark. this is a cloud calling option for zoom users that want to set up calls the don't necessarily have that video. it launched two years ago but it's really popular now and we already have the stock up today. this was by far a 2020 pandemic superstar, but it's been down 5% this month and morgan stanley says wald-- wall street got to bearish and now

bernstein with this call the stock is up 4%. stuart: and is going up as we speak, nona-- now four and a quarter precent. looking at general motors, they have had a really strong rally since their electric vehicle rollout. they are down a fraction today, but still above $50 a share. ashley, did they just get an upgrade? ashley: they certainly did. upgraded the stock from hold to by setting a target price of $56. the strong balance sheet and improving profit margins as well as finance unit and operations in china, 19 note 20 analysts rate gm shares as a by the stock has been on fire up more than 60% over the last three months, nearly 20% this week with those slightly down today and there's growing belief in gm's electric vehicle plans, which involves as we know billions of

dollars of investment and dozens of new ev the oh calls. looking at others, certainly tesla which is out on its own when it comes to performance of electric vehicle companies, but gm getting a lot of the buzz, down slightly today but it's been a nice run, up 45% in the last 52 weeks. stuart: i remember reporting that under $30 a share a couple of months ago and now it's 51. city says disney is a better stock than netflix took this has to be about the streaming morals. lauren: it's all about streaming. city says because disney's late entrance to the streaming market, it will be easier for them to grow their number of subscribers and even that disney has more subscribers than netflix ended two years by 2023. looks like they can do it. how do they get their? city says they have less content, but it's better

in the sense if you look at the review scores like-- they also say disney has flexible plans to bond with other services like espn so they like that and the price target they are giving, netflix is 580 and disney is 205. stuart: 580 and it's now 500. 205 and it's up 172. interesting. thank you. carnival cruise lines has its bookmark oozes for 2022 than they did in 2019. that has to be pent up demand,. ashley: it certainly is. carnival says demand has been robust even before covid vaccines were developed, but looking it's really picked up. more cruises had been booked for the first half of 2022 as you say then in 2019 which was very profitable by the way, 2019 for the cruise

industry. travel weekly says carnival law's $1.9 billion during the fourth quarter but the cruise line says it has the funds to keep going. i was going to say a flow, but we have already had that joke, enough money to keep going until the fleet can fail again which will hopefully by the-- b by the end of the year, stu. stuart: puns around airlines, cars and chris-- cruises, irresistible. on your screen right now growing list of platforms banning or restricting president trump. however, the left wants to take censorship a step further. watch out. listen to this scenic start at the top like any counterterrorism effort. >> there are millions of americans who somehow need to be deprogrammed. >> we are going to have to figure out how we reign in their immediate environment. stuart: they want to deprogram us?

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stuart: taking a look at the markets. we have $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. at the market is a down. >> steamer, good morning. thank you for joining us. stu, this is a massive price tag. had we pay for this? stuart: i don't think anyone is concerned at this moment as certainly the democrats aren't concerned at this moment about paying for it. remember, this is the response to the virus, in response to a clear emergency and they don't care about how much they have to borrow and spend. they just want to get out of this thing. i might add we have not yet gotten the tax side

of the stimulus program and that is to come. the tax aside of it will be raising taxes here and there and just about everywhere. of that will be paying for this program, but the bottom line right now is that the government is going to borrow much of this money. 1.9 trillion now, more stimulus to come, they will borrow most of it because they won't get much from raising taxes. >> as we go through more details he laid out in the plan, stir, 1400-dollar stimulus checks, 15-dollar an hour minimum wage, calling 400 billion to fight covid, 350 billion to city, state and territorial governments, you lay that out there and what stands out is 50 .-dot-- 15-dollar minimum wage. a lot of this was the central points to bernie sanders presidential campaign. stuart: yes. i think that the 15-dollar an hour minimum wage at the federal level is probably one of the

easier things to get past. they have a narrowly divided senate. is politically popular trick if you go to your constituents of a i got you a raise, i got everyone a raise of to $15-- $15 an hour. that's politically attractive and i is suspect $15 an hour will be one of the easier part of the stimulus program to get past. as were the 350, almost $400 billion going to the states for aid to them, that might be more difficult republicans don't want to see democrat run states like new york, new jersey, illinois, california, they don't want to see states like florida and texas bailout the badly run democrat states which i mentioned, so that might be more difficult to get through, but he will get something, at least a large chunk of this $1.9 trillion program

will go ahead. >> fair enough. we are about 12 minutes into trading with the dow jones of the hundred 65 points, fervently above the 30000 mark. always good to talk with you. thank you. stuart: thank you, sandra. we will be watching your new show by the way with john roberts "america reports", that starts monday one-3:00 p.m. eastern. delegate this, poshmark and petco went public yesterday ended their ipo and debuted. they zoomed when they went public yesterday. there is a lot of buzz for another company that is about to go public. what you have, lauren? lauren: it's called zero to lee as an oat milk, a vegan company backed by oprah. it's looking to raise a billion dollars in an ipo this year, and that milk is very popular. you see at many places,

so that you are now, but boat lee is set to join these other companies set to make their public debut soon, is to car, the payment processor stripe and then a company called next door , a social site to control the neighborhood if you will and the dating app bumble. what are they having common? social companies that offer clients and customers immediately, i want it now and we will get it to you. stuart: buzz about it all and it's a hot ipo market. thank you. what is this i seek? good news for thin mint lovers as the girl scouts is partnering with grub hub to make sure your cookies get delivered. ashley, what are the details? ashley: well, we can all breathe a sigh of relief is all i can say, back to you-- no, thin mints will be delivered. girl scouts usa is offering contactless delivery and pickup through grub hub. is the first time the girl scouts which

normally have a cookie stands has collaborated with the national delivery service, but these are the times and the girl scouts says grub hub agreed to waive all fees" deliver and track and manage inventory. the cookie selling season runs from now through april. there you go. stuart: good. i used it to have those delivered. kind of dropped that ball recently. thank you. going through the usual list of the markets. how about the 10 year treasury yield, 1.10% this morning. price of gold not doing much today, 1841. bitcoin has been on a roll. this morning it's down 6% at 37000. oriel, $52 a barrel, down 1% today. disneyland in california

, you know it has been closed for months so what happens to the people that bought and paid for annual passes, lauren? lauren: they get their money back because the passes are good anymore this is for disneyland in anaheim. disney has no idea when they can reopen that park so they are canceling and refunding passes for their most loyal customers. and a lot of these people signed up for these passes for decades this implies either california won't allow disney to open anaheim for a long time. some people that they made it into vaccination center and it was a turning point, a good sign, maybe not. other people say it's a brilliant idea for disney because when they do reopen disneyland, they had to obviously limit capacity so you can't have all these passholders flooding in. you have to manage attendance. stuart: i mean, i'm fascinated by disney stock on the which has

gone up nicely, up 172 right now compared to $80 a share in april. their cruise line doesn't work, not operating, their theme parks largely run down, their movie business has left town, they have streaming and i guess that is why the stock has gone up so much, i guess. what do you think? lauren: they had pivoted fast to streaming and it's been a home run took we just did this story and city says they will have more subscribers than netflix in two years time, so that his house disney is hanging on plus it's been around a long time, but you are correct. when you look at their business, so many units just decimated. stuart: not exactly hanging on at $171 a share. i remember it much lower than that. remember those new jersey gym owners who defied a lockdown owners , have been locked

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stuart: senator bernie sanders is set to become the chair of the senate budget committee and edward lawrence a joins us from washington. what kind of proposals could he try to push their? reporter: of the senator would push for medicare for all, free childcare and forgiving all student debt. he is one of those applauding the stimulus package saying it's a good first installment and he will work to provide bold relief in his words. centers on the budget committee, the head of the committee embracing

big government and in a tweet senator sanders said he will use the budget reconciliation process to boldly addressed the needs of the working family. that process can bypass the need for 60 senators on a budget item that could be done with a simple majority, so right now it seems a senator sanders is in lockstep with president-elect joe biden. here is biden last night on the need to push through the $1.9 trillion massive spending plan. >> the return on these investments in the jobs, racial equity will prevent long-term economic damage and the benefits will surpass-- far surpassed the cost. reporter: you will need to sanders for that cost going forward. the zero and this biden will unveil a recovery plan in february with another huge price tag and a sanders with enormous power at the helm of the purse strings to navigate

democrats to that tax and spending plan. he says it's a good first installment. you know that could be code for more spending. one note on the stimulus package, sanders will handle for the president-elect, no offsets in the stimulus meaning it's pure spending on top of the current deficit. stuart: a lot more spending to come, guaranteed. thank you. we have another-- i'm going to call this a long-- lockdown reversal chicago's lightfoot says she wants to open restaurants and bars as quickly as possible. what changed? ashley: makes you wonder. the mayor says the ban on indoor dining and service has resulted in people engaging in risky behavior in private holding underground parties at hotels, businesses and elsewhere without wearing a mask or say distancing. mayor lightfoot said reopening bars and restaurants would give people somewhere to go

to unwind where business owners can enforce the proper precautions. apparently they couldn't prior to this and chicago's restaurants and bars were forced to halt indoor service in late october and as we know many business owners say they cannot survive if the rules aren't changed soon. hundreds of others have already gone out of business. stuart: mummy as this, first of all to you, lauren, do you think this kind of reopening move has anything to do with the fact that we are expecting or we are awaiting president biden, not a continuation of president trump? has a change of power had the something to do with this? lauren: in the sense i think many people would assume that a president biden would be for a lockdown and you can see whether it's promo here in new york or lightfoot in illinois saying lockdowns yeah they work because you tell people to do nothing,

but they don't work for the economy. people are fed up. if you could rely on on the school or company to do something safely, open it up. we were talking about disney, money moves, money talks and disney is so fed up with the state of california that they might move us some of their operations from their, so if you are really strict businesses and people will not obey it. stuart: you have to open up sometime, do it now. thank you. still ahead on this friday show, tammy bruce, florida senator rick scott, charles payne will be with us and also steve helton. look at this, almost a year into the pandemic, that is six avenue in new york city at 10:00 a.m. deserted. my goodness me. never thought i would have seen that. more "varney & co." after this. ♪♪

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florida, gordon chang, cofounder of my space, josh berman in this hour. 11:00 charles payne joins us, steve hilton, tiki barber and a lot more. check those markets, seeing a very modest selloff. the dow is down, nasdaq is down 15. that is not a huge selloff, not huge by any standards. the latest read on consumer sentiment, this is a forward-looking indicator. >> 79.2 for january. a little later than expectations were handed down from december when you had the holidays, 80.7, university of michigan, consumer sentiment coming in at a slightly less 79.2 in january. >> still pretty strong, helped the market a little bit. we opened down 200 a half hour ago and now we are down 93, 94 on the dow.

now this. at harvard, a petition is circulating to withdraw the degrees earned by kayleigh mcenany and ted cruz because they were prominent supporters of donald trump and his challenge to the electoral college. aoc wants permission to investigate the media. that is all about shaming journalists who supported the president. some corporations are withdrawing financial support from republicans who supported the president and social media is actively blocking trump supporters and conservative opinion. it is an attack on all fronts. this is revenge plane and simple. they are looking back at the last four years at anyone who had anything to do with donald trump and they are canceled and

for what? supporting policies that gave us prosperity, jobs, hiring across the board, holding china accountable, confronting iran, revenge because of successful policies? no, they don't care about any of this. this is shaming, seeking revenge, guilt by association for anyone associated with the hated donald trump. they want to erase donald trump's presidency from our political memory. above all the consolidation of power in the hands of the left. shame the opponent, ban their ideas from the public square, ban them from public life. this is happening now. if president-elect biden wants to bring the country together he has to end this atmosphere of revenge. the ball is in his court. the second hour of "a furious sky: the 500-year history of america's hurricanes" is about to begin.

>> a little bit more on this idea of revenge, retroactive revenge. listen to what alexandria ocasio cortez said about the president and his supporters. >> a lot of people drank the poison of white supremacy and that is what donald trump represents. at this point if you haven't recognized that and don't see it maybe you have a lot of work to do too. stuart: i guess we have to be reeducated. let's bring in tammy bruce, the premise of my opinion piece is that the left wants revenge and they are all set to get it. what say you? >> i agree with you absolutely

but this is also historically familiar, has nothing to do with trump. that is fascism what you just heard from that young woman. she may not know it but this is the nature of what we have seen unfolding countries around the world in the last hundred years and i have to tell you the silver lining is it was inevitable in america but what is happening, what trump has made possible is it is out sooner and out at a point where we can respond and do something about it. anyone who dissents, conservatives, in that video, talking to her own group of people and warning their own base, if you don't agree, you are in trouble as well. this is classic. it is up seen. it is not just an american but anti-american. it is not a belief held by any majority, even a majority of

democrats. this is shocking but they are moving so quickly because they feel they have to. every day new information comes out about the capital riot and the absurdity of accusing donald trump, part of his family is jewish, grandchildren a jewish, maybe someday the first jewish president will be a trump and they don't like that. policies, really the first president to elevate every one, close the wage gap, employment for everyone across the board but what shocked the democrats is the democrats under the leadership of trump reached out to the communities that thought they had control of, people of color, black americans, gays and lesbians. this is where if they don't know how to keep those people because their policies are a disaster which unfortunately we will see in the last four years

but so all they can do is say we will destroy you if you dare to challenge what we are doing. americans have a chance to say cooler heads have a chance to prevail. stuart: aoc has a problem with mister biden's stimulus plan, checks need to be $2,000, not 1400, have at it. >> i wonder why she is being so cheap. why not 10,000? why not 15,000? why not 50,$000? she thinks we want her crumbs more than the mitch mcconnell crumbs? this is where the road goes. this is about government controlling your life, just a statement about it might as well be more just like the minimum wage. why stop at $15. who are you that you are

creating feeling, the perpetuation is. let me tell you this is a joke, this is what their goal is and it is a disaster. stuart: i need some of your energy and hope to get it someday. thank you for joining us. always appreciate it. the markets on the downside, we slept a lot further to the downside just in the last few minutes. the market didn't like the less than stellar consumer confidence outlook, we are down 250 on the dow, 80 on the nasdaq, 30 on the s&p. brian belsky is our market guy at the 10:00 hour. let's start with the financials, most of them are down this morning but you like them. your picks for 2021. make your case. >> happy new year, we think

institutional investors, the money center banks, in 2023, cinematically driven for financial or scale. those financial instruments with the most scalar the money center banks but we like individual business like brokers and asset managers. the result was pretty good this morning and we do think people remain unexposed like bank of america, jpmorgan, goldman stanley, our favorite sitting into 2021. stuart: the bank dip, how about the big techs? will you be the first person on this show in recent memory to say so big tech? will you? >> know. i would say maintain big tech which is a different call. given that we do believe we

will have potential shutdown in the first quarter, stay-at-home trade will help the apple machine and another spike in those companies and if you are trader and portfolio manager you want to take some profit on the big spike but maintain longer term, the growth attributes to our economy and we want to maintain those positions in the next 3 to 5 years but don't let them get too big. you have to be careful about owning too much. stuart: thanks for joining us, see you again soon. check the markets one more time. we have slips further to the downside. we are down 300 points. that is the best part of a one% drop for the dow industrials. exxon mobil taking a hit, 5.7%

down, the wall street journal reports the sec is investigating the company for overstating the value of an asset, the key asset is energy reserves in texas. now the stock is down 5.5%. general motors on track to close at a strong level, just dropped below $50 a share but what has been so good about general motors in the last couple months? ashley: the darling of wall street analysts because of its huge investment in electric vehicles, 19 of 20 analysts rate gm shares as a by, the stock has been on fire up 60% over the past three months, 20% this week although we've seen profittaking for sure. argus research upgraded stock to set a target price of $56 but it is billions of dollars

worth of investment in electric vehicles and scores of vehicles on the drawing plans, argus sites gm's strong balance sheet, improving profit margins and finance unit and operations in china. overall wall street likes general motors and what it is doing and where it is heading, it is off a little bit today, taking money off the table heading into the weekend. lower the price targets well into the mid-50s. stuart: take a look at signet jewelers, selling jewelry online, stock is down now but i am guessing going to an online selling, that was a good move. >> we saw the pop yesterday in the stock. these are preliminary holiday results from online sales up 60% because we bought online, picked up in stores, same-store sales rose 5.6% so what they

are doing, they started to do this before the pandemic, so many locations are in malls, they are closing those so they can be in the right places and beefing up their presence on the internet. if i buy a precious stone or piece of jewelry i want to see it. if you don't want to go to the store to see it they are making the visualization capabilities on the internet pretty good. maybe you can get the perfect diamond if you buy it online. stuart: that is a classic sign of the times story, move out of malls, go online, let people see visually what they are going to buy. let's move on to censorship. dac dorsey says twitter's enforcement actions will go in

the future far beyond just banning donald trump. listen to this. >> this is going to be much bigger. it is going to go on much longer than this week, beyond the operation. stuart: the fallout, we will tell you about it coming up. joe biden planning to rescue america with the $2 trillion stimulus plan. can the senate douglas to was the land impeachment. i will ask florida senator rick scott just ahead. the world health organization to investigate in china, i am asking gordon chang after this. stuart: i'm searching for info on options trading, and look, it feels like i'm just wasting time. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center. oh. their award-winning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interests. and it learns with you, so as you become smarter,

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stuart: china putting in new lockdown restrictions as covid surges there. how strict? what are we talking about? >> these are lockdown for 22 million. why is that important? that is double the number first put under lockdown a year ago when this started in the provinces. this is the worst flareups and the summer and they want to be sure they can kill it without killing their economy in the process. they also know the lunar new year is february 12th and the chinese spend money out and about. this is a wartime effort. that's how it is being described it is is a much harsher response than last year when they were trying to cover it up. some are saying this is an overreaction but china thinks it is necessary now.

stuart: got that. china is allowing the organization to investigate the origins of the covid 19 in wuhan. they banned two members of the scene before they got there. will this be a fair investigation? >> clearly not. the terms of entry were heavily negotiated. they will only be there a month. two of that, two weeks in quarantine and china has cleaned up everything of interest. they hosed down the wet market and sent their top bio weapons expert to the institute of virology and i am sure she disinfected the place. they are not going to learn very much. stuart: what do you see in terms of the us/china relationship in the first 6 months of the biden administration?

>> it will be a difficult time. china right now is extremely arrogant. they think they can determine outcomes at the top of the american political system. they are chortling in public. i think they will try to test the biden administration. this means very contentious, very choppy, perhaps dangerous. they didn't test donald trump in his early months because they were afraid of him. they are not afraid of biden. stuart: they are laughing at us? >> yes they are. november 2, '08, professor chong in widely publicized comments throughout china was talking how china could do whatever it wanted but through wall street, was able to get the white house to do what it wanted in the obama administration and earlier periods, so you couldn't do that in the trump. go because that link was broken but look

forward to having the link reestablished on january 20th at noon. stuart: do you think the biden administration will cave to china? >> at least not for very long and a political price to pay but china will be so arrogant that the biden team will have its back against the wall and we have to defend ourselves but this is going to be a time when relations are going to be worse during the trump administration because there will be so much fighting between washington and beijing. stuart: north korea showcased what it calls the world's most powerful weapon. is that saber rattling? is it at the instigation of china? >> they are talking a sub launched missile which is not nearly the world's most destructive weapon. i think china been helping because north korea's sub launched missiles are derived

from china's jl one sub launched missile. their similarities are so striking someone has to ask did china turn over the blueprints? no american administration has gone after china for basically building north korea's nukes for them. stuart: thanks for joining us, very important stuff, appreciate it. let me break in real fast. we have gone further to the south, i hate to use that expression but we are heading down for the market, down 360 as we speak, that is over one%, the dow is back to 30,600. we have some promising covid vaccine data coming out of israel. ashley: this is good news. the israeli data suggests covid 19 infection rates began to decrease among a group of vaccine recipients two weeks after they received the first shot of the pfizer vaccine.

is real with a population of 9 million people is the size of new york city but provided important insights, the country has vaccinated nearly a fourth of its population in just under a month. the data has shown a 33% fall in infection rates among those who had been vaccinated compared with those who had not. the study suggests the first dose could reduce infections among those vaccinated as early as two weeks after the injection is given. stuart: good news too. there are more companies saying they would pay their employees to get the covid vaccine. any idea how much companies are willing to pay? >> i was disappointed. you get a few hours in each case, insta card, $25 stipends,

dollar general will give you four hours of whatever you make if you go and get the shot. trader joe's two hours of pay per dose, that is four hours if you are getting the pfizer or moderna one. they are hesitant to mandate that their workers get the vaccine because they don't want legal trouble but $25 is financial incentive and time off of work to get it, i was disappointed by that. stuart: you wanted more. i hear you. >> it is a headache to set this up, the appointment and everything else. the company could organize and orchestrate it for you. if you want you can go here and get it just like that. stuart: through but they are doing something at considerable cost to the company to get the thing moving and i would applaud that anyway you slice it. prosecutors revealing capitol

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stuart: check the markets. we looking at the downside move, 328 points on the dow. in opposition we are often called to come up with the reason of the day, i will tell you this. at the top of the show we have two well-known market analysts warning us about the possibility of a correction, a selloff in the near-term. that has upset investors. i will show you some of the losers, goldman sachs is down

3%, chevron down 3%, energy and the banks taking it on the chin. s&p loses. what are they? wells fargo is way down and that is down 7%. those are the losers. how about some winners? home depot, visa, mcdonald's, there are dow stocks, all of them on the upside, not huge gains but they are waiting in the s&p winners headed by kroger. two items in focus, the trump impeachment and biden's agenda. senator rick scott, republican from florida joins us now. welcome back to the show. can the senate handle impeachment and the biden stimulus program at the same time? >> first off on the impeachment, just a political vendetta. why don't we focus on what people need? we need to take care of our

families, small businesses, and what the next four years will be like with what biden put out, $2 trillion on a program we spent, people lost their jobs or small businesses, it is a political payback. people left new york, you came to florida, biden wants border taxpayers to get the excesses of cuomo and newsom in california, joe biden is not bringing unity. he says he is that he is not and the first packages, $2 trillion when we don't have the money, not targeting people who need it. i want to help people who need help. i think he will have a frustrating start. stuart: i want to talk censorship, one of the major issues of the day. big tech is actively blocking

and suppressing mister trump and conservative opinion. what are you doing about this? >> twitter is the platform for dictators and thugs. the ayatollah can talk about eliminating all the jews and getting rid of israel. maduro can talk about the genocide of venezuelans, and they are all fine on twitter but conservative can't be on their. if you take that position, be a publisher, i don't know how you keep your 230 exemption. it is clearly an issue, twitter is making a big mistake, and by the way, why do they take our personal information and use it to sell it to somebody else. why are they allowed to do that? censorship takes no sense, taking my personal data, i will do what i can to stop it. stuart: how is florida doing?

local news in florida shows pictures of long lines of cars and people waiting to get their shots, there is a degree of frustration. what do you think? >> we have given florida just under 2 million doses. everyone is working hard. my wife took a friend of hers who is 94 to get a vaccine yesterday. people are frustrated. it is not going to be great until everybody gets there vaccine but the other side of it people are excited they got the vaccine, businesses are open. people are flocking to florida. i travel on the east coast of florida the last four days. it is busy, the hotels were busy, restaurants were busy, people were coming down here because we are open for business in contrast to new york. cuomo wants us to give him money but doesn't want open up his economy, makes no sense. i will do what i can to make

sure the vaccine gets out to everybody we can. i know people are trying to do that but we've got to get this economy going again and help people who are unemployed and small businesses, that is what is important to me. stuart: senator rick scott, thanks for joining us, see you again soon. federal prosecutors have filed a shocking new assessment of the capitol hill riots. what are they saying? >> at least one of the defendants intended to capture and assassinated elected officials. they point to a q and on supporter who said justice is coming for you, a message to mike pence. another defendant plans to take hostages. in all the fbi has identified 200 suspects, bringing criminal charges to at least 80 of them who acted violently on

january 6th and once again looking at pictures of that dreadful day. stuart: and looking at them for a long time to come. california democrats want to raise taxes on businesses and use the proceeds to tackle the homeless crisis. california guy steve hilton calls that move corruption at its worst and will explain that. andrew yang launching his bid to be the mayor of new york city and based it on a universal basic income program. we have a live report on that. ♪♪

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30, plenty of red ink. andrew yang said if he is elected mayor of new york city, and he is planning to run, he will launch a universal basic income program, $2,000 a month. christina, new york is already heavily in debt. how will they pay for this? >> reporter: that is the question. i haven't received an answer yet. what andrew yang wants to do is provide a scaled-back version of universal basic income for those most in need, almost half 1 million people, receiving roughly $2,000-$5,000 a year. the program is expected to cost at least $1 billion. it is expensive not just for new york across the country,

metropolitan cities are reeling from budget shortfalls, high income earners leaving to lower taxed states. the budget shortfalls are expected to be $5.3 billion according to mayor diblasio which is why you have some opponents of universal basic income, a handout. >> this is a collapse of the economy. how we bring that economy back to new york city, may not necessarily need it. >> reporter: he has some support, the federal reserve bank, basic income is a conversation we need to half. president biden released a stimulus package including an increase in checks for americans. the question is how to pay for it.

i asked to this to yang's camp. the details of how they plan to pay for it. stuart: any day now. thanks for joining us. a new analysis says businesses could save billions of dollars if workers partially tell a communicate, partially work from home. how much would businesses actually save? ashley: $500 billion according to global workplace analytics. when we implement a hybrid work model where employees alternate the home and office after the pandemic ends, slaving per worker of 11,$000. 1 million full-time employees

with remote work capability, on an average of 2 and a half dollars a week. increased productivity, says the report, reduced real estate, absenteeism and turnover cuts, save an average of $3,000 on commuting costs. stuart: now this, every 16 unemployed workers there are just ten job openings. tell me more about this. >> job shortage and contribution is fierce. right now industries like leisure and hospitality services slammed.

to those jobs come back? hopefully but if you are unemployed and looking for a job it will be tough to find one and be able to get it. stuart: do all those jobs come back? my answer is no, they don't all come back. some yes. >> a lot of companies pay $50 minimum wage. stuart: well said. you jack up the cost of labor and you've got a problem right there. let's take a look at petco, stocks are down today but they skyrocketed yesterday when their ipos appeared. give me more on this. ashley: petco shares open at 26, 44% higher than the company's ipo price of $18, as it cashed in with the pandemic

surge, the money use to cut the company's debt in half and allow it to focus on expansion. for used goods on the market, and surging 140%, the offering price is $42 but stock opened at $97.50, more than the offering price but today some money coming out of it down 12% more than the upper price at $89. stuart: dave for toy's barstool fund opening another business to keep the doors open. >> how are you? >> how are you? >> feeling okay. >> the yankees, don't know if anything has happened.

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stuart: now this. leaked video shows twitter's jack dorsey telling workers how far he will go with censorship? >> twitter ceo jack dorsey suggesting policy enforcement actions go beyond banning donald trump. it is more that recording. take a listen. >> it will go on much longer than the next few weeks beyond the inauguration, longer term and how these dynamics play up.

ashley: it is disturbing because you wonder what is going to happen next. dorsey says the us is extremely divided and the twitter platform shows that every day and says, quote, our role is to protect the integrity of our conversation and do what we can to make sure no one is being harmed based off of that and that is our focus. the secretly recorded clip was provided to project their at this by one claiming to be a whistleblower inside twitter. twitter responded to fox news today saying remarks showed the video is delivered to 5400 employees and nearly the same words jack shared in a recent tweet thread offering context to protect the conversation in recent weeks. a garbled explanation but disturbing when you think what

further censorship could be coming down the line. stuart: free speech is on the line. facebook and twitter were big names and social media. there was myspace and the cofounder of myspace joins us now, josh berman. let's get at it. what is your take on twitter's decision to ban the president and maybe more conservative opinion? >> first and foremost, we started myspace 20 years ago, it is about freedom of expression, ability to express yourself how you want and what facebook, twitter and the other social media sites are all about. that said, there are rules. tolerate hate crimes, none of us tolerate people breaking laws or inciting crowds.

stuart: i am not prepared to accept jack dorsey or mark zuckerberg's definition of hate. why can't i decide for myself? >> exactly right. it is not up to the ceos or the board of these companies. what has to happen is they have to have an independent third-party board that looks at all these activities that is reasonable and the public knows who is on these boards, swiftly act when there are opportunities to entice violence, hate crimes or clearly breaking laws and it is gray and will get better and better. it falls on the hands of jack or mark. it has to be a board everyone is comfortable with, over time they have to act swiftly. you can't have government doing it or the ceo or board of directors.

i think it will come and has to happen fast when things like this pop up on this site. stuart: i will leave that subject and move on to you as a market guy. you are involved in some of the ipos we are seeing recently. obvious question. is it a bubble? sure seems like it. and ipo bubble. >> great question and two great examples, firms doing great things. what you are looking at, companies were forming engine six months going public and jumping 100 percentage points. these are seasoned companies which you look at air b&b, companies that have been around for a long time, they have proven business model, they are market leaders and they are incredible companies to watch. 20 years ago we had apple was

very small, google with very small market caps but what happens is the market is overvalued and it will come down, there is amazing technology leaders. i'm looking at the private world and companies like space x and archer aviation that will transform, flying ubers. these companies will get public and shine over the next several years. stuart: it is up to us to pick up the tools and we have got to pick up the jewels and avoid the fraud and that is up to us. thanks for joining us. big thumbs up, appreciate it. another big hour of "varney and company" still to come. don't miss friday feedback coming up and how democrats propose to take the money you made in the stock market. outrageous. that is the theme of my take which is next. ♪♪

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>> you're going to have to figure out how we rain and on our media environment. >> not just un-american it's anti-american. all they can do is say we will destroy you if you dare to challenge what we are doing. >> the reason why twitter and facebook continue to act this way, there's no legal repercussion for censoring conservatives from halting first amendment rights and halting speech. >> some of the companies coming

public are very good companies but the valuations are outrageous and there will be repercussions down the road. the good news adding public, the bad news they will have to work off the speculation. i believe a correction is coming. >> the market is overbought, now is the time for caution in the market. >> we do believe we will have a potential shutdown for mr. biden in the first quarter, we believe the stay-at-home trade will have one more big spike and that will help the apple machine, the google, netflix ♪ ♪. stuart: we used to say this on most every day, look at times square, it's empty, we say net for the most part of the year, time square is still empty, this is new york city on friday january the 15th, look at the white house. there is a report that president trump will leave d.c. on the morning of inauguration day and hold a farewell event at joint base andrews.

meanwhile 20000 national guard troops are expected to patrol d.c. for the inauguration. that is about four times more than the number of u.s. troops currently serving in you iraq and afghanistan. streets and metro stations are already close. let's have a look at your money a few days before the inauguration and the day after the $1.9 trillion covid stimulus plan, we are down about .8% on the dow, 247-point, down on the nasdaq and down on the s&p as well. now this. have you made money in the stock market? probably, the dow is at 18000 when trump was elected, it is above 30000 now. a lot of people have done very well by letting their money ride, stained with her investments year after year, the way things are now, you pay no tax on your gains until you

sell, watch out because the incoming democratic administration wants to take some of the money that you made in stocks every year, not just when you sell. ron wyden is a likely chair of the senate finance committee, and a briefing with reporters on january the 13th which receive very little publicity, he outlined the plan to change radically that taxation of investment income. you would pay capital gains tax every year, you would not be able to defer the tax. suppose that you invested in tesla, you probably made serious money, well done, you may want to keep your investment let it ride, let it grow over the years. but wyden's plan would change that, whatever you gain you made on tesla in any given year would be taxed every year. the democrats are determined to take a lot of the money that you have made in the stock market, it amounts to complete 180 in the way that we taxed investment income.

it amounts to the legal seizure of wealth. it would surely have a profound impact on the way we all invest for the future. it is not a done deal by any means. it would be hard to get the radical idea to a narrowly divided 50/50 senate. but is a very good indication of what tax policy is going. they want your money. no matter how you made it. the third hour of "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪. stuart: charles come on in, charles payne that is, you heard what i had to say, has a profound impact on the way that we invest for the future if they do this, what say you? >> i agree with that 100% but i think it's much deeper than them just taking the money. there is something here that is

fighting against an native american spirit of do-it-yourself wisdom, pulling yourself up by the bootstraps, being able to achieve independent success without the government. this is their way of beating down aspirations, this is their way of keeping everyone in line, think about 2020, a couple of real interesting phenomenons happened last year. 70 put under a do-it-yourself umbrella we want a greater independent control we moved out of apartment and went in our own homes, there was a shortage of mason george, people preserve their own food. people said i do not want to take uber i will buy my own truck. there was an independence where you saw tens of millions of people say i want to be part of the market but i wanted to them myself. all of these things go against a big government that thinks they know better than you, the independence of thought is what is scaring the more than

anything else and what helps fuel that, somebody can go buy a tesla to your point and buy it to 100 then it goes to 700, and if you take into account a split, they feel independence of a freedom that the government, some people in this government do not want to see, they fear that more than anything else. how do you curb that every single year that you punish someone for having the audacity to do this alone. this one covering mutual funds, i would discover the individual investors who want to go up and do it themselves and enjoy some prosperity. that price parity would spark a scene of independence that would go against anything else they are preaching. stuart: you want to do well, if you do well that take some of it often b. i don't get it that is un-american in my opinion as a newly citizen. those move on to joe biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, do you think the economy needs at

mattel? >> it's a good crisis, why let it go to waste. i'm kind of shocked i thought we would see 2.5 trillion, i am kind of surprised. i pressed for more funding, i thought president trump was right on when he said 2000 for people who need it, obviously it had to be tested, all the economic data in the last two weeks confirmed that the v-shaped recovery has run out of steam and people are hurting, 500,000 people in the leisure hospitality industry lost their jobs last month. we sell retail sales fall off a cliff. we had a big spark, we were able to get back to what we were with them an unfair momentum that we had february last year when the federal reserve and the federal government acted quickly i thought it should've been $2600, some of this other stuff we will not reward states for the economic malfeasance and letting

them and allowing them to use the pain-and-suffering of covid and their own joe crowley all lockdowns as a disguise for what is the payoff for mismanagement. i don't think anybody think that's fair. a little bit more to have for the probably goes through, the biggest part of it the 1400 additional dollars will go through. stuart: yes it will, definitely, thank you for joining us we will watch you at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon. making money with charles payne on fox business. now this, congresswoman aoc, alexandria conseil cortez wants to set up a commission to combat when she calls media disinformation. watch this. >> were going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so you cannot

dispute disinformation and misinformation. stuart: how we rein in the media, how we stop this information according to who, steve hilton i forgot to introduce you, that is steve hilton on the show, what do you say? >> what she is literally calling for his statement media, what is really chilling this is the latest example of the democrats drift towards authoritarianism, the fact that you've got people in the media on cnn, msnbc, cheering this on, supporting it agreeing, though the useful idiots in the scenario because they're fine with media that they do not agree with be ingrained into user language. you and i talk about our backgrounds as immigrants from uk to the america, why we love america so much. my parents originally immigrated

to the uk from hungry, communist hungry, that is where you had this thing in operation. not just in communist hungry, one of the favorite targets of the left these days is the current leader of hungry who was also stop the free media from operating. he is also raining and the media just as aoc wants, she is turning into the victor over him of america. stuart: amazing, how do we let this happen, how do we arrive at this point where you have members of congress saying we just have to rein in the media. it is absolutely frightening, here is something else. your are california guy so this is being thrown at you, democrats in california want to tax hikes the business is in use the proceeds to pay for homeless programs. i think you call that corruption

in the extreme you want to make a case customer. >> the amount of money that is looking to raise with this particular tax is the latest in the long line, $2.4 billion, another number we can look at $4.9 billion, twice as much, a little bit more than what they want for homelessness. the $4.9 billion is just the amount that calculates their pay just for luxury healthcare. healthcare on top of what everyone else gets to cover california. 4.9 billion. if they got rid of that they would not need to raise taxes part. they will not get rid of that, those unions give money to the campaign. it is all totally corrupt. if you multiply that with all the government unions in california and all the extra perks and benefits that they

get, you would not need all the tax increases. you could massively reduce taxes which is what we need to see to get california's economy going again. stuart: the same old story week after week, california is falling apart. thank you for joining us, i'm going to watch you sunday night 9:00 p.m. eastern on "the next revolution". that will be on fox news. thank you very much. now take a look at this, a baseball card 1952 became the highest selling sports card ever. we tell you how much it went for, you will be amazed. fast-food world walking off the job, at least some of them demanding more from a $15 an hour federal men melt under minimum wage into unionize. first you remember the new jersey jim that was fined $15000 a day for not requiring masks, the owner of the gym says the

state has taken more than $170,000 from his bank account. they just took it out of the account. more on that coming up. ♪ dream on, dream on ♪ ♪ dream until your dreams come true ♪ ♪

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obama many faced experienced massive federal overreach under the clean water act that essentially tried to make sure that pollution did not make its way into waterways. but under president obama that effort was on steroids, many farmers say and put puddles on the epa watchlist for pollution. >> when an administration comes in and says were going to clean up the water, we will put these regulations in and now we will regulate the puddle as opposed to actually putting good buffers and incentivizing folks to do good practices, it is a scary thought. >> i talked to another dairy farmer this morning who tells me he's not opposed to regulation to protect drinking water and limit pollution but he needs the government to pay for it. the government cover 75% to

install fencing, cut cows from drinking freshwater and instead build water wells that farmers build to let the cows get water but if the government stops doing that, they tell me it's going to hit the industry very hard because the profit margins are very slim. stuart: got it, hillary vaughn, thank you very much indeed. the gym in new jersey has been locked in a bitter fight with officials over the owners defiance of lockdown orders. now another turn, another twist in the story. owner ian smith says the government has frozen over $173,000 in the gym's bank account. he is with us now. they have frozen your assets, now what? are you going to fight this to the bitter and even if it means going to prison or permanent bankruptcy? >> we are prepared to fight this until the very end. the fight that we took up was not only for jim but for our

constitutional rights, they shut down especially in new jersey but all around the country, none of these governors ever provided any clear and concise data that show small businesses are any more of a threat to the public than walmart. we will continue to fight this all the way through, we have an active lawsuit against governor murphy and kelli demanding more from evidence. we will continue to fight by any means necessary and we will continue to fund raise and keep going at them no matter what. stuart: they have frozen your bank account, i think they've seized your bank account, i'm not sure whether they frozen or taken the money, wasn't that money supposed to be for your legal defense? now you do not have money for the lawyers. have they overstepped their authority? >> in my opinion, absolutely. we do not charge members, we have not charge members a single dime since april 1 of last year when we were ordered to shut down we run entirely off of donations in the gym through

gofundme through teacher and apparel sales, that money was earmarked as defense money, it is a clear violation of our constitutional rights, interfering with our right to counsel and were actively in the appeal process for those. it is in my opinion that the absolutely overstepped their boundaries. not to mention the fines as stated by the law are meant to be a skiing, punitive sting. these fines are not punitive. $15000 a day to a gym that was open for a month before covid and has not been open for two years and has that charges members in ten months. that is not a punitive measure. governor murphy and the judge are actively trying to destroy the businesses. stuart: there making an example of you, there making it real bad for you so anybody who does anything like that is going to suffer the same consequences so they do not do it.

>> absolutely but there overstepping their bounds and was going to happen, once we get out of the new jersey state courts and out of judge roberts who is completely out of control with these fines once we get in front of a judge to respect the constitution and understand the ordinance appropriately these fines will all come back and they will pay for their overstepping. stuart: you want to find that they blubbered in the money that they have taken, you think eventually you will get it all back, any damages, will you get anymore back? >> we will pursue that when we get there, right now there's ongoing litigation in the case of the fines in the 80 municipal and criminal summons and the unconstitutional revocation of her business license without due process. in the nature of the shutdown we

will be suing for damages. stuart: i think you will be washed all over the country, thank you for joining us we appreciate it always. the best of luck to you. check some individual stocks, we have zoom, the videoconferencing dies, zoom is the word, they just been named the 2021 top stock picked by big investment firm that will be bernstein, the stock is at .75%. delta, the ceo says they place more than a hundred people on the no-fly list for refusing to wear facemasks. they're taking steps to boost security over the next couple of weeks as we head toward inauguration. that would include banning handguns and checked luggage on flights to washington, d.c. jeff bezos now has a date for when he hopes to fly passengers into space on his blue origins rocket. i thought this was way out there in the future, years ahead.

is it, what is the date? ashley: according to one report early to mid april, can you believe? it's a little unclear, blue origin the space company owned by jeff bezos completed the 14th test flight of its new rocket booster and captured this week according to another financial network blue origin hopes to launch the second test flight within six weeks or by late february and then the first crude flight, six weeks after that which means by early april for what is unclear is whether the april target is just for the crew for whether it includes space tourist conceivably it could the rock is designed to carry people to the edge of space, an altitude of 340,000 feet after several minutes in 0 gravity floating around the capsule returns to earth. i'm not sure how much the ticket is but this seems to be on a

real fast track, fascinating. stuart: april, thank you very much indeed. tesla, let's bring them up, tesla losing ground in the european car market. that is new, what is the story. lauren: is a big deal because for most of 2020 europe sold more ev's in china did, sure you have respectable analyst wedbush calling the heart and lungs of tesla, that is true there so bullish they think tesla could go to 1250 but europe is equally a big deal and this is a warning that comes from saxo bank, they say tesla is not among the test selling vehicles in europe when you look at ev they are losing to rivals, volkswagen, hyundai and countries from germany to france start to ban gas powered cars it's important to know what ev's, european consumers are going to buy and tesla is not among those popular in this big

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let's start with the weekend games, i want to know who's going to win let's start with saturday's games, first of all rams versus the packers. what you don't know is that i am a packers supporter. i like the way the team is owned. apart from that, who's gonna win. >> i see the ownership by the city so to speak and by green bay there the number one seat, i like the green bay packers because they are at home but there also going up the number one defense in football with the rams and aaron donald who won multiple mvps, defensive mvps on that side of the ball. this is going to be a fun one, aaron rogers, the packers quarterback is likely going to win the league mvp, so top offense versus defense all go with offensive leading these days. stuart: ravens and bills, the bills in the playoffs for the first time in 20 odd years or

something like that, who is going to win. >> bills mafia is going crazy up there in buffalo. but they're taking on a team with the former mvp, last year's mvp, lamar jackson two weeks ago rushed for 400 yards. the ravens are the visiting team and had to get by tennessee last weekend. i like the ravens on the road, the bills are good they won the division with the patriots falling by the wayside without tom brady for the first time in a really long time but they have a play good football lately. i like the baltimore ravens going into buffalo in winning that game, the five seats i think they will be the bills. stuart: let's go on to sunday's matchup grounds versus chiefs, i noise kansas city chiefs over the life of me i can't remember where the browns play these days. which city are they. >> cleveland, cleveland was worse than the buffalo bills.

it's been 26 years since they've had a playoff victory. here they are they beat the steelers last week, this is a tough climb with the browns. the kids a city chiefs are the defending super bowl champions, they wanted the best in the highest paid player in the nfl and patrick mccombs who won the super bowl last year then vp league two years before that, i think there will be too much firepower. it's a great story for the browns who finally got it right in cleveland but i think the chiefs are going to be too good for them. stuart: tampa bay buccaneers versus the saints. i made a mistake, did you catch that. >> you said it right, tampa bay buccaneers. stuart: who wins. >> this is an odd game because this is the third time that they will be playing, these two teams are in the same division and when the teams played three times in the nfl season it's hard to game plan against because you seen everything twice, the saints have dominated the early they 172 - 26

collectively over the first two games. theory would be the saints have the advantage but tom brady is tom brady and what to get in the postseason even though we found a new team, i think the buccaneers will find a way to beat the new orleans saints. this is the third time, the third time is always a charm. the he's in a new place for the first time in 19 seasons i want to see him get it done in tampa actually will be in new orleans but i want to see the buccaneers get it done. stuart: just remember that under this a packers will take it all. i want to talk baseball, the baseball card sold for five-point to million dollars 15 years ago i think was about 200,000 per what do you make of that, that inflation? >> it's an exploding market and baseball cards and football cards these days, your scene -- and tickets, a lot of interest in this space when there is

rarity. it's why tickets have become a big deal, there's only however, many tickets to a game, 60000 - 70000 saints nfc championship game for whatever year, there's only 70000 so there's scarcity. when you have scarcity like a nikki mantel card that goes for $5 million it's because there's a lot of people that are desiring in order will continue to accelerate. i think it's asinine to pay that much money for a baseball card or a football card but people are doing what they want to do with their money. i cannot complain. stuart: don't forget, liverpool, sunday morning at 1130 eastern, out of time. tiki barber thank you for joining us. >> thank you, see you soon. stuart: former world series champ coach says his insurance

was canceled because the social media post. give me the story. ashley: i see tiki did not pick liverpool, you would not go on a limb on that one. he is an outspoken conservative for a big supporter donald trump, he is accusing insurance giant aic of canceling his policy because of his social media profile. schilling went on to say it is not a one-off saying this in his words is a coming storm, this is the future he says of the nation if democrats are allowed the power they fraudulently came into, it's unclear what may have led aig to cancel schilling's insurance, he never made a claim in 17 years but reports it may have been one of schilling's twitter post on the day of the u.s. capital riots when he said the protesters were fighting for rights, democracy and the end of government corruption. his twitter handler is president-elect coach schilling.

stuart: thank you very much, let's move on to mark cuban, he is a billionaire, getting into the pharmaceutical game, what is he doing. lauren: he's making drugs, small number to start, 100 different generic at the end of the year. he will do it at the lowest cost possible in one example is a drug called albin does all it treats outbreaks, here's the point, the list price is $225 per tablet, he is selling it, cost plus drugs.com for $20 and says if you have insurance it is 1 dollar, 225 to 1 dollar. plans to build a factory next year. the price of drugs is starting to come down. stuart: thank you very much lauren, moving on. peter mcmanus café operated for

the same family for 24 years. covid threatened to close it forever that is until the fund stepped in and saved him, the company's owner joined me next. here's a look at the empty times square almost one year into the pandemic. it's been like that for 11 months. amazing. ♪

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>> dave how are you. >> good how is it going how are you. >> how are you doing. >> the yankees is something on the red sox fan i don't know what's happening. >> keep it. >> thank you. >> you're welcome it was an easy story to root for and get behind. we are glad we can help. stuart: isn't that cool that was

barstools leading the café in new york city letting him know that they made it into getting money from the barstool fund. the coup is here just the mcmanus owner of the café. first of all, congratulations and did you find out when he called you on that video? is that how you found out? >> yes that is wrong and true. i'm glad i picked up a random facetime from a boston number i did not have in my phone but it was all pretty quick, and change the application process on the barstool fund but it was really we applied and put it in late sunday night, maybe one or two in the morning and i got the call 5:00 p.m. that same day. it was really, really fast and incredible. stuart: how much are you going to get from the fund and is it

enough to save your café? >> that i don't know for sure yet, i know that they said were here for you and we have you covered and knock on wood i'm hoping that is the case, i think a lot of great things about this fund compared to a traditional grant instead of it being a one-time lump-sum they said they want to be there with you each month in moving forward until this pandemic is over or until we are seeing numbers like we were before so i'm not needing extra help. stuart: you have a great story to tell. i did a little research into the mcmanus café, wasn't founded by your great-grandfather who won two purple hearts in world war ii? did i get that right? >> my great grandfather is peter mcmanus and he did start our

family business. it was my grandfather james senior that was in world war ii and got the two purple hearts. stuart: a great family history. you are in business for the foreseeable future no matter what happens you're staying in business in new york city, correct? >> correct, the mcmanus', we boys been fighters, our family crest is honesty and bravery cannot be conquered, we've always had that we will fight to the end and besides for the family legacy and me thinking about what my family has gone through before me we had to say before our employees in the community. stuart: you have a very, very compelling story and were really glad to hear a friend of this

program helped you out. that is good stuff. justin, congratulations and i hope you stay in business forever. good stuff. some fast food workers nationwide walking out today, they want $15 in our federal minimum wage, jeff flock is in chicago, come on jeff wanted that hurt the restaurant business during the pandemic, $15 an hour? >> i suspect that it would and that would take effect immediately and although i heard you say earlier you think has a good chance of passing, probably the way the laws get enacted it takes a while and so it would not take effect right away perhaps during the pandemic noting multiple states are increasing their minimum wage, your to have a 15-dollar minimum wage in new york city which tends to make sense and a high

dollar place like new york city but the state increased its minimum wage, multiple other states doing so as well but you're right small business owners tend to be opposed to this, the job creators network put out a statement saying it's the worst part of president-elect biden economic proposal, the worst time possible to burden job creators with this job killing mandate. also some people think ed mcdonald go to more robots we talked with mcdonald's worker in kansas city who said he is not worried about that. >> going to automation or robots would save money or anything of that nature where they can make more profit, they would've done it already, we know the value of the human workforce, our ability to get the job done. >> $7.25 has not increased over a decade. stuart: you say it so pointedly, mr. varney, were on opposite sides of the fence on many things in this one included.

jeff flock you are all right, enjoy chicago over the weekend. everybody light relief coming up, friday feedback after this.

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lauren or susan or myself to because the awkward questions. i'm sorry to say susan is not with us today but ashley and lauren lined up. the first one comes from gym harrington on facebook, he says i wonder why you folks are so interested in tesla. i do not think you folks even drive. is it only money? actually, that is yours. ashley: tesla is a remarkable story and so is elon musk, whether you like him or hate him, you cannot deny his impact on the electric vehicle industry and entrepreneurship itself, look at the stocks skyrocketing. the intention is warranted and i do drive i don't drive a tesla however. stuart: do you drive warring? lauren: i thought ashley was saying he drove a tesla and i was so impressed. i do dry but i don't drive a tesla, i drive quite a bit actually. stuart: i'm very interested in tesla, i dismissed them at first but the world's richest person

and that is worthy of him being followed. next comes from twitter, you are like watching good friends discussing important issues. are you all good friends off camera? like most shows, relationships stop once you leave work. i got an answer to that, in the age of the pandemic and keeping social distance i really regret to say i have it pop dies on face-to-face with ashley or lauren in at least ten months, i am sorry about that. would you like to get together with me lauren first of all would you? lauren: i would love to actually. but ashley and i do correspond quite frequently in fact, sometimes we talk about you in our text messages to one another during the show stuart and sometimes we don't. stuart: i know you do, should we move on before you bury yourself. [laughter]

stuart: leo deluca says this a few months ago you said you did not like led zeppelin. i was wondering if you liked the kings ♪ ♪ is that what that's playing, so tired, so tired of waiting for you, i bet you there are three quarters of her audience that i've never heard of the kinks. you like them ashley? ashley: how about lola, everybody loves lola, they formed the band and went on to influence a lot of other bands. stuart: lauren has never heard of them right lauren? lauren: but i know why led zeppelin is called led zeppelin, do you? stuart: no, tell me why. lauren: in the early days someone was watching them and said this band is going to fall like a led zeppelin, and prove them wrong. [laughter] stuart: that is good.

let's go quickly tony, we've all had those important noble memorable moments when all goes wrong in front of god and everyone else, would you and your on-air staff like to share some funny ones? no but lauren, you are first. lauren: when things go wrong on-air, is not the question? stuart: yeah. lauren: here's a good example, that just went wrong. my kids always walk in, they knock on the door, there was one point i was just sitting here and we lost power i was sitting in the dark, strange things happen all the time, you're the best stuart, you make it funny, said you actually. stuart: actually give your funny on camera moment. ashley: after 34 years around the country of the u.s. i get the giggles, have to do a story in montana on rocky mount bieber fever believe it or not i never made it to the end of the script

and they had to face the blockade go to the commercial break very embarrassing. stuart: i had a sneezing fit. well done, had a sneezing fit on live television and that is not easy to get out of and by the way there is no tape. thank you for those who responded, more "varney" after this. ..

stuart: speaker pelosi just wrapped a weekly press conference. she ignored a question. she was asked if she would send the trump impeachment articles to the united states senate. she did not answer the question. they are trying to work out when and what to do with impeachment. time is up for me, neil, it is yours. neil: i love your mail segment. there was a time years ago, 3 minutes there was no sound coming out and my ratings were the highest they had ever been. [laughter] stuart: well done. neil: it is true. we are going to try it now. all right. thank you, have a good weekend. it really did happen. everyone said we can't hear him.