to half-court and did it without touching the rim. >> you could start taking out the new york version of taxes. you think that shot in new york city, the take-home would be about $14. >> it's a good lesson, i get this, so your kids understand what the policies mean. >> i'm wondering if he got a big check like semi pro if he's trying to cash it this morning and having trouble but kudos, that's a beautiful moment. those of us less athletic have never had but we can admire it. >> most seventh graders can't even reach the rim let alone what that kid did. >> seventh grader, congrats to you and thank you for being h here. lee zeldin, james, joe concha, good to see you all. we will see you again tomorrow. take away.

>> good morning, i could watch that video all day long. good morning, i am ashley webster in for stuart varney. a night full of outbursts, jeers and contradictions, house floor erupting throughout the president's state of the union. some republicans calling the president a liar and shouting your fault. that didn't stop the president from saying the state of our union is strong. he also touted gas prices down a dollar 50 from december. he conveniently didn't mention they were at record highs back then. he glossed over the border in fentanyl crisis plaguing our entire country and it took him an hour to address china and he barely mentioned the chinese spy balloon we have to shoot down but don't worry, you might be paying $8 for a dozen eggs and inflation is still six times higher than when he took office but the president is going to get rid of junk fees like a resort and airline fees, thank goodness. we will backcheck the president

throughout the entire show. you know that. we have pete headset, chad wolf and martha and other to help us with that. let's get to the markets rallying, session highs after jay powell boosted hopes of a soft landing but today or of a focus on corporate profits, dow, s&p lower in the premarket. let's look at the ten year treasury yield angering around 3.66, dear nearly two basis points. we got a lot to unpack today. it's wednesday february 8, 2023. varney & co. about to begin. ♪ ♪ ♪

>> we are building an economy where no one is left behind. jobs are coming back, pride is coming back. because choices we made the last several years but here at home inflation is coming down. here at home gas prices are down a dollar 50 from their peak. inflation reduction act is also the most significant investment ever in climate change. [applause] ever. >> but i've never been more optimistic about our future, about the future of america. just so you remember who we are, we are the united states of america and there's nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. [applause] thank you. ashley: another standing ovation at the end, that was president biden delivering his state of the union. he attached republicans during that address saying they are

trying to take the economy hostage. republicans vocally responded. watch this. >> some of my republican friends want to take the economy hostage. >> instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some publicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i'm not saying it's majority. let me give you -- anybody who does it contact my office, i'll give you a copy of the proposal. that means congress doesn't v vote. ashley: you can barely hear him over the doing there. he takes us joins us from north carolina, what did you think of that? this is a line he says again and again and republicans say stop lying. >> that's what it was and sentiment you heard in the chamber there was echoed by the diners we talked to at the

restaurant here in north carolina. they are not buying it. they are looking at wages versus inflation, gas prices, opportunity and people willing to work and they are saying that rhetoric in washington d.c. does not match reality of my life and therefore some is not true they look at the investments whether is the infrastructure bill, so-called or inflation reduction act, agreeing to deal proposal and they are not changing, prospects of average people and they look around and say are border is wide open, china is flying a balloon over our country for a week and you don't want to talk about those things but the most passionate part of your speech is someone else's border in ukraine and by the way, we are going to run out of oil and gas in ten years so we better go electric and somebody else will pay for that. the bottom line never added up

for people who have to meet their own bottom line so i think it was a big miss in that way and republicans in the chamber as you heard on false proposals want to take away medicare and social security, they were all over it. ashley: they certainly were in pete, he mentioned china in our into the state of the union, president biden did briefly referenced that chinese spy flight. listen to this. >> working with china but we can advance american interest and benefit the world but make no mistake, as we made clear last week if china threatens our sovereignty we will act to protect our country and we did. [cheering and applauding] >> well, is the president giving the china issue attention it deserves? >> let me refinish that sentence for him, and we didn't for a week and that's what everyone heard. it's like you are telling me the opposite of what i saw with my own eyes let alone layout and

actual policy to take on an adversary, talking points for the exact same as if nothing has changed. if they could have, they would have sent antony blinken to china to negotiate climate change which they seem to think is a important to china as a bills coal-fired plants switch fantasyland with no doctrine of theirs cold war front they are waiting on us we are choosing to print send doesn't exist. that's the unserious aspect of it and again i heard border, border, border all morning. no sovereignty in our own country yet we are worried about these other things like bundle but won't talk about the real reason why it's happening. ashley: we will have to leave it there. i'll take the western omelettes, hash browns and wheat toast, lightly buttered. i'm very hungry as you can tell. >> right away. [laughter] ashley: i'll be right there. thank you, appreciate it. arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders delivered the republican response to president biden's state of the union. good morning, lauren.

the focus of her rebuttal, what did she say? >> joe biden and his administration has been hijacked by the radical left. >> while you read the consequences of their failures, the biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality americans face every day. most americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace but we are under attack in a left-wing culture war didn't start and never want to to fi fight. >> but they are fighting and she sees it as republicans preserving normalcy versus the left's crazy and by the way, my toast is right, lots of butter. i oppose. ashley: well noted. i will give peter a call after this. former president trump also responding to the state of the union, what did mr. trump say? >> a video message and address the issues biden didn't spend

much time on last night. the border, crime and he accused biden of leading us to the brink of world war iii. >> over the past two years hunter biden, millions and millions of illegal aliens from 160 different countries have stormed across our southern border. biden and the radical democrats wasted trillions of dollars and caused the worst inflation in half a century. he's leading us to the brink of world war iii and on top of all of that, he's the most corrupt president in american history and it's not even close but the good news is we are going to reverse every single crisis, calamity and disaster that joe biden has created. >> so a lot to unpack but what i heard in the speech last night was this vision of america that is expensive. a lot of talk about big government making it bigger and

bigger and with that, big government spending and not many ways to pay for it except for taxing and billionaires and millionaires. ashley: i think that's all of it in a nutshell. thank you very much, lauren. let's get to the futures, markets showing lower open. eddie, are we seeing the start of a new bull market? the nasdaq could have six positive weeks in a row or is this just a bear market bounce? >> in our opinion this is nothing more than another bear market bounce. momentum is on the ball side in short term so i think you can see the market over to 4200, 4250 on the s&p but this is just like the august rally in my opinion from june and august 17% rally in the reason why we say it's there is because of the process focused on the data. the rent data continues to get weaker. we have the economy decelerating, the yield curve

inverted at a wide pace right now, credits getting tight, talk to any real estate developer and ask about the cost of capitol or getting capitol to start projects and they will tell you it's drying up. the other thing we have a fed that is still tightening. when you tighten with those dynamics, it is difficult to have an economy to bottom and we need the economy to bottom before we go to a bull market in our opinion and on top of that, this is going to happen within the first half of this year, we will have a debt ceiling debate so what are the chances of all five of these things working out without disrupting the capitol markets? i just don't see it so to the data changes we are not going to change and i know it's not popular because we had a nice rally and every time we have a rally, i am asked is this the start of a bull market? unfortunately i don't think it

is. ashley: i look forward to the day when you say yes, a bull market is up and we are out of time. great stuff. eddie says also patience is what's needed. thank you very much. coming up, i think we may have already heard president biden 2024 campaign slogan. roll it. >> was been sent here to finish the job, we got to finish the job. >> finish the job we met there's more to do. [applause] ashley: that's it, the president said finish the job 12 times during his reach. president biden briefly mentioned the border crisis and it was an hour into his address just like his vp, he passed the blame to congress. texas congressman tony gonzales will be here to sign off on that next. ♪

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at the border. [applause] ashley: perhaps too little, too late. congressman tony gonzales republican for texas joins us now. good morning to you, congressman. is this crisis of the border especially with regards to functional the president's fault? >> good morning, he certainly has a role to play in it and we didn't hear much how he was going to solve it last night. you have to start the job before you can finish the job and i haven't seen him start the job on how we can tackle this order crisis. literally the worst border crisis in our nations history yesterday in eagle pass in my district, there was a small baby boy abandoned in a field. the only reason former found him is because there was a diaper bag a few hundred -- hundred feet away he came across the child so these are the things happening everyday. the president lack of attention to it certainly shows they don't

have much interest in the bo border. ashley: that's exactly right and the president says the issues at the border will be solved until congress acts. listen to this. >> american border problems will be fixed until congress acts. if we don't pass my comp engine reform, at least pass my plan to provide the equipment for officers to secure the water. [applause] and a pathway to citizenship for dreamers, those on temporary status, farmworkers, essential workers. ashley: look, is that deflecting the blame? can you work with democrats in the house and senate to get a bill through? >> it's politics 101, blame the other party for everything that's wrong. democrats the house, the senate and the white house and they did

nothing, the first two years his administration among they've done absolutely nothing. i think house republicans have to lead and find a way over, under or through the administration to get real things done as charged with securing our border and starts with adding manpower to the equation or resources for border patrol agents, tangible things we are putting our agents back in the field and get them out of the processing centers and work with anyone who wants to. there are some cracks in the house willing to have that conversation. the needs to be more but to me it starts with house repub republicans, i storms from the ground up. if we wait for the administration, will be waiting a very long time. ashley: quickly, does america by this? you know what's going on on the border. fox news documented every day. these things the president says ring hollow, do they not? the fact that the shameful part the president acting this way during his state of the union.

your thinking the american people are going to allow this, they aren't because they see it every day. same thing with the economy, you can talk about it, we want action, tangible real actions to keep this country safe and prosperous. ashley: will leave it there. congressman gonzales, thank you for joining us this morning, appreciate it. by the way, as we mentioned the president only briefly highlighted the functional crisis in the state of the union and flooring, how much fentanyl has been brought into the country just this year alone? >> 94000 pounds. i remember we used to talk about drugs and grams, now it's po pounds. more than 7000 of that came from the southwest border so that's enough to kill every single american five times and that's just what we seized. when you heard the president talk about fentanyl last night, let's spend more money and people more security more to tech detected. that's not the answer.

2 milligrams can kill you, it's hard to detect and only getting stronger, that's not the answer. ashley: absolutely frightening and has oversight chair james, calling out the biden administration for its narrative what did he say? >> he accused of selling the american people the sanitized version. >> administration officials continue to say they are creating a quote safe and orderly, humane immigration system but reality contradicts this began the. >> reality versus rhetoric so border patrol agents, not political people, real agents that work there testifying and they say the picture the white house is painting is not the reality we are seeing and we are trying to deal with every single day. it's refreshing to hear from some of them. ashley: asked bill melugin what it's like on the border as he

reports for fox news, he's done a wonderful job of showing us the reality at the border. thank you very much. let's check the future, we head to the break and it looks like we will have a door open on wall street, the dow off in the premarket about 109 points. the opening bell is coming up next. stay with us. ♪

right, let's look at these futures ahead of the opening in about four minutes or less from now pointing gone, the dow off 107-point let us bring in shar, good morning to you. you say not everyone is enjoying the everything rally what you mean by that? >> first of all, great to see you. it's in everything rally scaring the two camps on opposite sides. the one camp worried about the everything rally is worried they've missed it and if it continues, they will crime and. that seeks to the fact that we a

melt, further melt up as sidelined money comes rushing in to catch the performance of the s&p for example or nasdaq or any benchmarks. the other camp is worried the evaluations have gotten so crazy this everything rally, sonic stocks and conduct currencies and companies that make zero profits horrible balance sheets, they've exploded. that camp is worried this over evaluation of everything pretends, a reversion to the mean and we are going to get it turned on in the market, maybe some significant so close to cancer battling out and facing the same narrative is what is the fed doing? i think we know what the fed is doing, keep rates higher longer so that creates a conundrum for investors. >> it certainly does, the conundrum word. eddie was on earlier and he says we are still in a bear market,

do you agree? >> i don't, it doesn't mean we can't fall back into it but we've ascended out of the bear market. when there's no direction in terms of competing narrative and investors in a conundrum, look at the market. we are in an uptrend, trend is your friend. you can't be left on the sidelines because the market could explode higher the rest of the year. we kept seeing records by end of maybe spring or even before we are buying, chelating positions with great paying dividend yields and if we need to, we will reverse course and have stops and as always, lucas stopped out with profits but on the sideline, you could miss tremendous rally that could last all year. ashley: quickly, any secular sector you think is good value right now? >> still like the energy sector, i know it's come down a bit and looks weaker but we are buying and big dividend yielding,

natural resources, that's the position we own, we've got in intel, pioneer has a huge dividend, intel 5%. you get paid to hold great companies. the other one is the giant global minor, 9% plus dividend yield on the. ashley: how about tech? nasdaq on a nice run here, you still like these names? >> like microsoft, some of them i think are getting a little overdone, didn't jump into when we should have. we are on the sidelines scratching our heads thinking it's too high, too quickly but still going to tech but got to use trailing stops. ashley: very good, fabulous advice, shah, we hear the bells ringing on wall street. on nasdaq they are smiling, waiting at this.

we are ready to go on this wednesday morning and we are off and running. we are expecting a slightly lower beginning, the markets for this close to sessions highs but here we go, a lot more red, on the dow 30 we have microsoft what shah just said, fire walt disney, united health group with the rest of the dow 30 in the red, the dow itself about 100 points. let's look at the s&p and see where the s&p is and we will monitor 16-point of the s&p, down half a%. the nasdaq, same story, don close to half a%, nasdaq down 50 points and we like to take a look at the big tech names. there hugo, microsoft and amazon on the upside, microsoft up two and a half percent but apple, meta and f a bit lower. check out alphabet, down 4.6% but we did have companies that reported before the bell, let's begin with our own parent

company, fox corporation. good morning, what have we learned? >> if you look at the stock, they did very well. nfl and world cup along with midterm bending on the average, it helped boost the bottom line and fox worked not only on sales and profit, they made money compared to the loss they reported last year end this is the first report card fox corporation put off reemerging of the tv and the newspaper assets and news corporation so it's a public report card to end last year. i want to show you ubs health, it topped wall street estimates for the bigger story is the fact that they have confirmed that they are going primary health provider oak street, $39 a share, $10 billion plus deal cbs has been busy on acquisitions the last few months and bought signify health, tech and health provider for $8 billion in september so another 10 billion on top of that. uber, talk about talk of the day, best quarter ever for the

right handling company not only did they beat on sales and profit, i said profit because they actually made money which is hard for the company to do in its 15 year history but instead of losing money to end last year which is what wall street expected, they made almost one 100% more over those wall street estimates which ceo says is a company strongest quarter ever and they are guiding for celebration in bookings of 20 to 24% for this quarter to start this year and 1 billion trips for the company. finally, fast food because yum brands, it's all things to talk about that outperformed because there are as many in china so china was a weak spot in similar to what starbucks said because of the covid lockdowns there. kfc, pizza hut was pretty weak for them but high inflation means high consumers are trading

down to fast food restaurants and low income diners are buying their value meals helping their bottom line and sales. ashley: interesting. we got another round of layoffs. ebay and zoom, how many jobs? >> 500 jobs in ebay, around 4%. i think zoom was a large number yesterday cutting around 15% or 1300 jobs, zoom will be cut by around 20%. ceo founder is taking 98% pay cut and skipping the bonus. he doesn't need it as you can imagine but you feel it's concentrated in the tech space. a lot of layoffs concentrated in big tech and i read to be 70000 plus of layoffs have taken place over the past month and a half and mostly intact. this is the sector that over hired during the pandemic boost, this might be rightsizing, we are not being this on payroll, a blowout in january but 11 million job openings will.

ashley: that's true. now the company to likes to call expensive rice and beans. aaa reported yesterday, i don't know if he still calls it that. they are down this morning 4%, what's going on? >> i don't think he would turn away a bull he was offered but they missed foot traffic, not great quarter despite yet ceo brian nichols saying the company hasn't seen backlash and price hikes for their burrito bowls and tacos by the fact that they did recall report trend actions which was surprising. the company plans to open 2 2502285 stores this year end higher 15000 by the springtime. you heard brian talk about re- acceleration to start this year from last quarter so positive momentum he says in 2023. ashley: that's a big number.

let's get to disney reporting after the bell today, one of the key numbers? we not the fact that this is bob iger's first earnings report after he was brought back in and the reason bob was kicked out because of the last report card and a lot of people on the board scratching their head thinking maybe we need a change. it's going to be streaming, disney+, we are expecting a loss of subscribers up to 52000 in the quarter but still expecting the number to go up to 163 million. will the parks be able to make up for that streaming loss? know they've raised prices at the parks but also it will be interesting to hear what bob says, his return and the streaming costs. we know bob brush off the fact that you will lose one and a half billion dollars on streaming on the year. this time around, i think this cost-conscious world we are in a slowing economy and consumer, they will probably rethink on

the. ashley: exactly but i want to get -- >> talk about warner bros. because we are in the streaming world, they are keeping discovery plus separate from hbo max. hbo facts will have content but it's an interesting change in dynamic in the streaming world and strategy. ashley: i'm glad you got that in. about out of time. >> we will tech about ai next hour. ashley: we will indeed. coming up, media can help but gush over president biden's state of the union address. listen to this. >> president biden's superpower is that he's a regular person. >> but delivered with a lot of energy and a lot of pace. ashley: superpower? brett is here to react to that. i can't wait. the president claimed republicans want to cut social

programs in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. it ignited the heated response on the gop. we are going to fact check president latest claims on the economy right after this. ♪

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or go to loveshriners.org right away as you can see, lower, the downtown tenth of a%, s&p and nasdaq up down about a third, nothing too drastic. in back to last night's state of the union, president biden argued republicans want to make cuts to social security and medicare. edward florence is at the white house, that didn't go down well with publicans, did it. >> looked a lot like house of

commons rather than house of representatives. a very stubborn president. house speaker kevin mccarthy once the president not to go after republicans but that's exactly what he did. the president claiming pelicans want to cut back on medicare and social security. they prompted jeers and shouting in the hall, listen to this. >> some publicans medicare and social security sunset, i'm not saying it's a majority. [booing] i'm glad to see -- i enjoy conversion. if congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, i'm not saying it's a majority of you, i don't even think it's a significant -- but it's being proposed by individuals. >> could hear marine one landed behind me, the washington post gives the president for pinocchio's in 2020 and 2022

when he made the same claims. republicans in the house are saying they did not want the president to misrepresent their positions. >> i think the president uses the strongman a lot in creating a bogeyman for him to rail against and sometimes is screaming to the audience for us but i think the american people know better than that. >> the president seemed to go off script add living he believes we will need oil for at least another ten years. that's not the original script, could be a small energy pivot as we get to 2024. we will have to see if the president's actions match the words from last night at least with that part. ashley: great stuff, thank you very much. president biden claimed 12 million new jobs were created under his watch. >> two years ago the economy was reeling. i stand here tonight after we created with the help of many people in this room, 12 million

new jobs, more jobs created in two years than any president created in four years because of you all. [cheering] ashley: okay but according to the bureau of labor statistics of the president created 2.7 million new jobs, the other roughly 9 million have been lost during the pandemic minor detail. stephen moore joins me now, good morning. we've heard these claims kicked around before, what your response? >> we left millions of jobs during covid and obviously those jobs came back. it is absolutely false, i will quote my good friend larry kudlow here, the economy was in freefall when biden came into office. in the last six months before biden came into office about the economy grew by 10.7% so the economy was on a huge upswing

when biden came into office and don't forget week after the election was when they announced the vaccine thanks to operation warp speed which is what unlocks the doors of opening up businesses again. i wrote a piece in the new york post monday addicting they would be lies in the biden speech and i think i got five out of the six, i may have missed one but you know, you look at that list and he says he's -- let's take the gas prices. the gas prices 2.59 a gallon when biden took office. it skyrocketed, remember talking about 5-dollar a gallon gasoline and it's come down 3.50 but if my math is right, isn't that still a dollar more a gallon? let me give you another one that sticks, he keeps talking about how he's reduced the deficit by 1.4 trillion, he said that again last night. i want to make sure the viewers

understand this. when biden came into office, the first thing he did was raise the debt by 2.8 trillion in his first year in office. by the way, i was an all-time high the second year last year, we only raised the deficit by 1.4 trillion, 4 trillion in two years. now he's claiming i reduce the deficit by 1.4 trillion. that would be like saying if you went on a diet in the first year you gained 40 pounds in the second year you gained 20 pounds and given the runaround saying i lost 20 pounds. [laughter] ashley: don't let the facts get in the way of a good headline as they say in the business. terrific stuff. like the prognosticator. >> five out of six. ashley: five out of six, i'll take it. impressive. thanks so much. the column in the washington post getting criticized for saying egg prices are really cheap. what's? with their argument?

>> they are not cheap, i make ten every saturday morning. why eggs are cheaper than you think. the opinion piece by megan mcardle who argues historically speaking extra cheap, they used to be a luxury good, more expensive than take in 1890. she writes if you can't help cringe when you see the cashier bring up eggs that cost twice as much as they did a year ago, it might help to remember however poor you feel, your ancestors would have taken one look at your grocery cart and declared you rich. how do we see this? i don't think she has children, born in new york city, based in washington telling you your kitchen table issues, what you are seeing and paying for is really not a big deal compared to 1890. ashley: living in a bubble is what it's called. great stuff. by the way, what's this interesting story, the irs to

crack down on latest tips? >> the president went after billionaires last night and his irs is going after service. the agency has a new proposal, just a proposal to establish a voluntary tip reporting program between the irs and restaurant or business so they report what their servers are being tipped. usually cash tips go largely unreported. why are we doing this story? this jives with the crackdown on tax and transactions over $600. that's been delayed because of pushback so americans are hearing the white house wants the rich to pay their fair share and won't go after anyone making under 400,000 a year but the last time i checked, i don't know a single billionaire a server. the actions are saying othe otherwise. ashley: unless they are very eccentric. thank you very much.

exactly. coming up, arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders giving the republican response last night, she went after the president age. >> i'll be the first to admit president biden, and i don't have a law in common at 40. i'm the youngest governor in the country and at 80, he's the oldest president in american history. ashley: fact mr. biden will be 82 for the 2024 election, will age be a key factor in the election? will be here to talk about that. also, military recovering china's spy flight debris will bring you the latest from the wreckage site next. ♪

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>> good morning. we are a few miles off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina and the weather conditions are absolutely perfect for salvage operation. good already tell from the water and it's still in chrome which is exactly what you like. fox news drone covering you the debris site where this chinese spy balloon crashed. however, when it comes to salvage operation underwater operations could be particularly difficult heading into this weekend because the weather is expected to deteriorate pretty significantly. u.s. navy has been working day in and day out to find this brief. yesterday they brought in an unmanned underwater vehicle which will help locate the small pieces of this spy airship sitting 50 feet below over 15 square-foot football size debris field. the pathfinders equipped with sonar and is helping map the

seafloor. the u.s. navy released images showing most if not all the debris from the surface has been recovered. the challenge now will be finding to breathe underwater just constantly shifting because of the current grade we spoke to a local salvage business owner about the challenges. >> we had probably four to five years ago, actually had a plane go down off myrtle beach and about 20 to 25 foot of water, very favorable conditions, about a week after it had gone down and it took weeks and weeks to finally locate that plane just because it was very light on the bottom and skipping along the bottom. >> the pieces of debris being recovered are being analyzed at the fbi lab in quantico. administer for china says the debris is there's. ashley: thank you very much for the latest. still ahead, chad wolf, steve

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