of today. show me big tech, please. that's where the money is. only one winner. amazon up about $3. apple, nvidia, microsoft, alphabet down. 10 year treasury yield. where is that? it is down to 4.42%. now this. who leads the democrat party? at this point, nobody. they're busy criticizing each other and trying to work out a winning policy for the future. meanwhile, the president elect is powering ahead with a whole new raft of cabinet members, advisers, and dramatic new policies. the democrats can only watch from the sidelines. organizing some kind of resistance. kamala harris and tim walz may want to be apart of it but they lost so badly and ran such a lackluster campaign they've been cast out into the political wilderness. there are no standouts in biden cabinet to lead the party.

pete buttigieg has not been a success as transportation secretary. how about democrat senators? senator bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. if that's the direction the democrats want to take, that can only be good news for the republicans. jazz should see bernie sanders work himself up into a lather about the wicked billionaires. and the house, the squad wants to lead. her brand of identity politics was thoroughly discredited and the squad isn't going to lead. then gavin newsom, the governor of california. he wants to lead the resistance. he's called a special meeting of

the state legislature to ensure the continuation of california's ultraliberal policies. has he seen the election results from his own state? the golden state is turning purple. democrats are reeling. trump is moving at lightning speed to reverse every biden harris policy. the new york senate will gibe and moan about racism and sexism and democrats will try to delay but they are a leaderless spent force. it's trump's world now. look who's here. >> there's no one emerging and different people saying that we need to double down on far left extremism and saying he's going to trump-appointed-proof california where as what we need

is to newsom proof california and he's going to safeguard the things on climate action, which is all the things that are driving up cost of people and on the other side, some saying we went too far left and names being discussed and josh spear o governor of maryland and they're not taking a case and bringing the party back to the center. that would be real leadership.sn newsom is attending the united states senate in dc at the moment? any idea what he could be doing there? >> i have to tell you, stuart, whatever it is, it's all about gavin newsom. i mean, that's what he sees being the one leading the charge

to fight trump more than anyone else and back home people are saying what on earth is he doing there? we have all the problems here and deficit and momentumless situation. all these need dealt with and it's getting worse not better in california dismast why people are voting republican more than we've seen in decades. stuart: president elect trump is on his way -- i think he's arrived at the white house for the meeting with president biden and it'll take place in the oval office. i think we're waiting for him to arrive as we speak. now, i want you to please set the scene. is this a tense meeting for the white nows? >> i can't believe biden is taking the meeting. how can you invite hitler into the white house? completely outrageous. look, things that i think -- it'll be fine. they'll get along fine. trump is a very charming person, anyone who's met him knows that. and despite all the rhetoric, trump reveres that the white

house and he said that very many times. lyric i think joe bind is feeling like i was the only person able to beat this guy, donald trump, and i think trump-appointed feels good that he won by a lot and the popular vote. stuart: i think biden feels left out. vindicated but left out. there's a group called cal exit. they want cal to break off from america because of trump's election victory. i know it's never going to happen, but i personally owled would like to see that. >> i disagree with you, stuart. i understand. look as i've said many times, in

the last few years, decade even, california's been like the wuhan left of far left extremism. exporting this virus that's infected the rest of the country. i understand why people are fed up with it. what's the answer? to change things in california and lead the california revolution, which is already started so we can throw off the yolk of the extremism in california. stuart: i know you're working towards this. you're working in california to select a republican governor, maybe yourself. what kind of progress have you made? >> see it in the results and i see it personally when i'm on the road in california. there's a real energy for change. people understand it's gone too far, and you see the results and we have people the the change and seeing this time around, people voting for it.

now, highs for 1996 for president issue can date and ballot on crime and taxes and minimum wage and rent control. the republican position on those going for the majority on all the fishtives and it's really encouraging and in a place like huntington beach, eww, you may see a small city and republicans overthrough a couple of years ago, 6-1 democrat majority and took control of the council and started delivering common sense reforms and now they swept it 7-0. stuart: it's incredible. >> it's another situation and

going to bring to the election and people resigning and just like you saw with the washington post, it's chaos in the pleases and owners understand and can't go on with the far left stuff. stuart: welcome, steve hilton. you're going to love it here. dow up 100 points and three stocks in the dow accounting for the gain and goldm goldman sach7 and home depot 45 and salesforce 33 points. covering the markets on important day, mark tepper joining us for the hour. why is >> they just need 51 votes in the senate to pass tax legislation. i would expect as long as the republicans are all willing in

the same direction to your prior point about trump sounding very supportive about the current speaker of the house, if everyone is going in the same direction, i would expect a bear minimum extension of trump-appointed tax cuts and make, possibly even lower income takes and he's floated lower corporate taxes that would all be great for stocks. great for the economy. stuart: goodness me, thinking of bitcoin and 92.7 and ethereum up too the. that's the action in the markets today. small caps, small capitalize companies in the stocks are on fire. show me or tell me one of the best etfs, baskets of small cap stocks to take advantage of that.

financial financials have been the biggest gainer in small caps and a lot less regulation and other option is iwn as in nancy. that is the small cap value etf whereby financials make up 40% of that etf. could be greater upside with that one. stuart: informing our viewers, looking at oaks tearier of the white house and -- exterior of the white house and meeting between the president elect and president has started in the oval office. thank you very much, good stuff. lauren, you're looking at movers. what is this? lauren: it's a crypto stock that really encapsulates bitcoin and etf and it's the mining and infrastructure services and up 73% this month, in like two weeks. trump wants to mine bitcoin here in the u.s. and hold it in reserves and this is a company that benefits from both of those demands. stuart: this is a crypto rally

that is bigger than the trump rally in the stock market in terms of percentages. tell me about verizon. i know they're moving 1.5%. lauren: their deal to buy frontier was approved by frontier shareholders and added spectrum allows verizon to be more competitive in more markets and cheaper to buy than build if you will. stuart: amazon. lauren: launched in beta form discount store called amazon hall. promises crazy low prices, that's a quote. most items under $10 but have to wait about two weeks to ship to you. why? so they can compete on price with china's temu and shein. guys good move. thanks, lauren. right now president elect trump, that's right, got to get used to that, he's meeting with biden in the oval office. biden told trump he looks forward to a peaceful transition. it is a historic meeting. we're all over it. filming it for you throughout the show. more varney after this.

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stuart: the meeting between biden is trump underway. biden apparently told trump he looks forward to a peaceful transition. trump said politics is tough, but it's a nice world today. alexandria hoff joining us from washington dc. what did they talk about, alexandria? reporter: hi, stuart. yeah, we're getting intel in from members inside that room because only a portion of the

former and future president's remarks on camera and share ago message of unity and policy priorities and right now there's still remaining races left to be called. republicans are poised to maintain control of the house. that gives the president elect the trifecta he needs to per sue his aen-- pursue his agenda and quickly and shared a message of gratitude to the members. >> i want to thank everybody. you've been incredible. we worked with a lot of you to get you in. you helped me too. we won the majority by 7.1 million. we won which is great because republicans aren't supposed to be winning the majority. reporter: trump did receive a standing ovation and on policy, one thing that earned cheers was that his administration will carry out the "largest deportation in history". he complimented choice for vice president and chief of staff

calling susie wiles the most powerful woman in the world. trump mentioned pick for u.s. a ambassador elise stefanik and security adviser in attendance and congressman michael waltz and two departing members and ultimate margin in the house tighter and would be unlikely that any more administration nominees coming from the house given that. house will hold leadership elections and there was some talk of an alternate nominee getting propped up to compete with house speaker mike johnson. conservative members told fox news earlier that's now not likely to happen. the house does not want to be slowed down. i want to menace that elon -- >> this case is not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today. it'll be a smooth transition. >> thank you. thank you all.

[ loud chatter ] stuart: there's a mass amount of questions and looks like they got along and smiles on both sides and when the president elect thanked the president, president biden, all the president said was you're welcome. i don't know what that tells you, but at least it's a cord cl look for that meeting. marc thiessen is with me.

marc you saw the video tape, what do you make of that? >> it sounded like when your parents have been fighting during a terrible divorce for years and sit down and get together and are c cordial for each other much it's not really real, but it's nice to see. stuart: put as good face on it for a second. let's get serious for a second, i'm calling this a transformational administration and people coming into the cabinet will transform policy in the united states. do you agree -- it's transformational. do you agree with that? >> i agree 100%. look, fir of all, first trump presidency was quite transformational and he had a outstanding record. he had trade deals and he had them with south korea, with canada, mexico. he used threat of tariffs in order to get people to the table to negotiate better agreements that protected american workers. we had -- he was the first president since ronald reagan on

whose watch another war didn't start and that's transformation not because of the wars on two continents he inherited and has to fix. he wants to transform the american economy and make it more effective for american workers and also protect us from foreign adversaries like china to whom we have become dependent and things in the economy and national security. like shipping crates. maybe we shouldn't have 80% shipping cranes controlled by 80% of chinese communist party. that would be nice and transformation not guilty. stuart: in my opinion, one week and eight days since the election, the whole vibe of the country has changed. republicans excited and positive and democrats seem to be de-moralized and depressed. go that far? >> yeah. well, it's different and has a different feel than 2016 when he first won because he lost the popular vote in 2016 and won by the electoral college and rose up the cry not my president.

he was illegitimate and put in office by vladamir putin and the russians and this victory is definitive and won the popular vote and electoral college landslide and control of both houses of congress. it's so sheer and to de--- clear and definitive, they can't. they've gone from the anoer of 2016 to sort of the deep depression of 2024. stuart: mark tee son, it's greas great to have you on the show. it's a fine thing. >> always have a good time when i'm an the air with stu varney. how can i not. stuart: all right, tepper, as in mark, is still with us. what are your thoughts on this transformation administration? >> i think it's just been spot on so far. and probably my favorite part is this department of government efficiency. i think that has been even leading into the election, one of the most underappreciated components of trump's campaign whereby you have two guys,

you've got elon and vivek really focused on eliminating wasteful spending, similar to what javier milei did in argentina and balanced budget over the course of a new months and took inflation down from 20% to 3% over the course of the time frame. you've got two guys and look at vivek back in the first republican primary debate talking about zero baseline bungling. whatever you spent last year, doesn't matter next year. we start from zero and build from there and that's awesome. stuart: i'm big on this meeting with the gop and president elect trump this morning. trump brought in elon musk, he got a standing ovation, and he held him up as the guy. this is the guy who's going to take a pick ax or whatever you -- an ax to the federal bureaucracy and cut spending. but at the same time he says look, we want to cut taxes. he's going for unity. i think he got that unity, 100% support for speaker johnson. that's very good news for the

market, isn't it? >> and that's the key because republicans have to row in the same direction and that over the course of the last few years has been one of the republicans issues is there was a lot of in fighting. lauren: that's the holy grail of trump's economic plan if it does work. you bring down inflation by slashing spending to not juice up prices. then you can do your tax cuts because you grow the economy. even though less government revenue it coming in in the form of taxes. lauren: left hand side of the screen, trump media down today off 4% despite the good reception he's getting in washington. i'm not going to read too much into that. trump media on the downside today. but the rest of the market still going strong. certainly the dow industrials and i'm looking at 130 point gain. right hand side of your screen, that's the way out for the president elect. he leaves the white house. i'm not sure what happens when he leaves. does he walk down the drive way

and answer questions from the media? i don't know who set up there, but we're going to wait and see because if he appears in front of the media, well, we will most certainly take a look and listen. back to djt. down this morning but i do want to show you if i could just show you what it's done over the last months. this is a djt rally and a half. it's down today, okay. now show me the one month performance. that's -- okay, not that great. lauren: down 17%. lauren: yeah, that one was up 21. go with the one on the screen. stuart: all right, got it. bitcoin, that's the play of the day. bitcoin reached $93,000, $100 a coin. crypto plays, most of them are on the downside. coin base, marathon digital, riot block chain are down. gray scale and micro-strategy, they are up. mixed picture right there. folks, lot to go at today. more varney after this.

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stuart: the ft. elect will questions out on the driveway there possibly. we have eyes on it, when he says anything, you'll hear it.

bitcoin is the big point on the market. left hand side of the screen and all time higher for bitcoin, 93. mark tepper you're not a crypto kind of guy, are you? >> not a crypto bull but a realist and i've long taken the position with all of my clients that we should view crypto as a speculative asset class. that might be 3% max and 5% max of total liquid investments but it's still speculative. looking at what's going on over the last few days, i've had clients calling me interested to buy bitcoin at 90,000 a coin and showed zero interest when it was 50,000. there's an element of foe mo at play and -- fomo at play and if scott bessent is selected as treasury secretary, he's a big time crypto bull and bitcoin and cements into place trump's plans

for america to become a bitcoin superpower of the world. they build a reserve of bitcoin, which obviously requires more coin and price goes up. stuart: ashley, who's the front runner now? ashley: hedge fund manager scott bessent squarely in the spotlight now with paulson's withdraw. bessent, yes a crypto bull advocated for tax reform and deregulation, in particular to spur more bank lending and energy production. also in a recent opportunistic ed in wall street journal, the markets surged after donald trump's win and signaled investor and higher growth, lower volatility inflation and revitalized economy for all

americans. he's all in for president trump and one of the biggest backers on wall street. we shall see. stuart: thanks, ashley. i want to bring marc thiessen in again. he's got a smile on his face. mark, to me the big positive of the morning so far was trump's appearance with house republicans where he seeped to get some unity in a very fractured house and 100% behind speaker johnson and that to me means trump can get stuff done. what do you say? >> there's no crusade launched against speaker johnson and trump backs him and he's the president. he'll get his agenda through and unified control of government

and has the house and solid majority in the senate and a budget reconciliation bill and they're going to extend the trump-appointed tax cuts and make more changes to your tax policy and fiscal policy and that's going to be one of the first things going to get done purely with republican votes. stuart: i don't know what kind of margin he'll have in the house with waltz leaving and another lady, stefanik leaving. his margin of victory is the majority will be cut. can you still work with a cut like that if you're down to a majority of two, three, or four? can you still do it? >> well things with large unanimity on, you can. again, the problem that the house has had is this sort of knuckle head caucus of about 10 or so people giving first kevin

mccarthy and now speaker johnson a bunch of trouble but not going to give speaker johnson that trouble. he'll say i'll endorse a primary opponent against you and that'll be the end. i don't think he'll have project there may be issues down the line and small majority of the small number and moderates that are now all of a sudden having a lot of leverage to get the president do so some things they'd like him to do. he'll need to win over their votes and that's normal in the presidency. >> spare us that one. stuart: a handwritten letter of congratulations from physicalities trump and

expressed her team's readiness to assist with the transition. switch gears for the second. i want to bring in peter maurici. i want to talk about tariffs and impact on prices and explain a raft of tariffs on imports coming in to raise prices for consumers. >> fends on the tariff and how we do it. for example, a large tariff on china would be obstructing cerumen sockerred by chai -- absorbed by the chinese manufacturers and u.s. government and lifting exports to keep their tepid economy going so they subsidize them and also be an exchange rate adjustment. more depends also on whether the canadians and europeans joined in so the chinese had fewer options for their exports therefore more willing to cut prices.

it's an international price and have the additional complication of exchange rates and finally it's a one off. last time it raised prices according to the petersons was like two tenths of a percent overall in cpi. four times and eight time as percentage point and nothing to sneeze at but a oneoff and not year after year additional increases. finally i want to point something else out. count cause unemployment f. you're in a full employment economy t, it moves around where people work. these people should have their degrees taken off the wall. they know that. stuart: china's economy is in deep trouble at the moment. does trump have leverage when they're in that situation? >> if he moves quickly and doesn't horse around. if i were advising him, go to

60%, lay out exactly what you want out of them and there's nothing they could really give us that would convince me not to keep 60% and if he has a list, if light heiser has a list, lay it out. if he doesn't meet the list, go to 80 or 90%. the chinese are using all the profits, not all but a lot of them, to build this navy, which is costing us. then we have to respond to support the russians and we have to respond. we're dealing with real miscreants here. might not be vladamir putin and they're in the same time zone. stuart: okay. peter maurici, thank you for your input on a r is important david: thank you, peter. stuart: we'll bring you comments from the president from the white house when it happens. more varney after this.

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stuart: weaver waiting for president elect trump to come out of the white house and approach the microphones and answer some questions. we're told he will do that. we don't know when. when it happens, you'll see it. by the way, the senate, the republicans in the senate, they're starting to vote. it's the first ballot to elect a new majority leader in the senate for the republicans. meanwhile stay on the white house and edward lawrence is with us. can you tell us anything more about this meeting? trump and biden. >> well, the meeting, i want to set the scene here, i have not seen the white house this busy and not even during inauguration day for president biden and current president in office. there is a lot of media and attention on the north lawn and that shot you're looking at there, what you don't see is about 200 people behind that wrapping around the west wing gates and there's a lot of attention and a lot of focus on what's happening inside the media and when president elect trump was greeted here at the white house, the first lady was

also there with president biden is first lady handed a letter to president elect trump for mrs. trump to basically say in that letter that they wanted a smooth transition and cheesehopperful for a smooth transition and will facilitate a smooth transition on the lady side of that and color there and during that meeting between the two of them, it was extremely short and there were a lot of smiles and two welcome backs from president biden. it was very interesting to see. we were looking for facial reck -- facial impressions of each individual there. and you can really see the smiles were there and looked like there was maybe forgiveness from former president elect trump to president biden is smiles and in fact the president elect joked be president biden as reporters were yelling questions in during this meeting and it's interesting and the meeting is still going on and started at 11:07 eastern time. as of right now, 11:43, it's still going on inside the white

house. stu, very interesting scene, maybe this season indication of things to come during the president elect's term next year and attention that he's going to get. stuart: you've got it. edward lawrence, thank you very much indeed. back to bitcoin on a tear today and all this week. new high earlier today going up to $39,000 per coin and headed -- $93,000 per coin and going up higher and had hit 93. mark, what do you have on michael novogrant? >> he's king of bitcoin and ceo and founder of galaxy digital and recently just said that if there is a strategic reserve of bitcoin, which is something that trump mentioned in this campaign, something that scott bessent, if he's selected for treasury secretary would likely try to push forward, that bitcoin could easily go from 91,000 a coin to 500,000 per

coin. i mean, that's a raging bull market and like i said earlier f you have a strategic reserve of bitcoin, you have to go out and buy it. there would be a lot of buying to fill up that strategic reserve. also, a bunch of fomo as well. lauren: other country haves to compete and build up their reserves. a lot of speculation in the bitcoin community that a nation state it bought a lot of bitcoin this week specifically, one of the reasons the price went up so much. u.s. holds most about 20 0* thousand bitcoin followed by china and uk and el salvador and who is the other mysterious one if there is one. stuart: when michael novogrant said there's a possibly of bitcoin reaching $500,000, he's talking up his own boog, isn't he? >> he s.500000 seems high but i could see it doubling it that

strategic reserve happens. stuart: would you put your investors in it? >> i've said it's a speculative asset class. for me i'm 44 years scold can easily allocate 10% of liquid net worth and lose it all, i've got 90% of my mown working for the next 20+ years and beyond. for my clients who are 55, 65, 75 years old, maybe that max is 2-3%. but it is, it has a position in someone's portfolio as long as you understand it's highly speculative. stuart: you've got a smile? lauren: he also said that bitcoin should match gold in ten year's time. stuart: match gold? lauren: mean as safe haven appeal, a safe haven status. so you're not -- you're not trying to use it or make money for it in your portfolio as safe haven. shore up well. thank you. stuart: it's a transactional coin and buy pizza with it or something. it's a value.

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stuart: ready for the president elect to emerge from the white house and maybe take questions. a lot of reporters outside waiting for him. in the senate, they're voting to elect a majority leader of the senate. i want to go back to edward lawrence. is that meeting between biden is trump still going on? reporter: it's still going on, 40 minutes later and we have the meeting going on and i can tell you when the press was in the oval office, they wanted to know if the two men would discuss ukraine and what to do going forward thrombocytopenia thrombocytopenia and discussing -- discussing israel and middle east and the economy and a number of questions thrown out about inflation and how is president elect trump going to fix that going forward. at this moment, we don't know what they're talking about, but this meeting lasting longer than

many folks had expect it had to be. i will say earlier when president elect trump was meeting with the republicans, he did endorse house speaker mike johnson for another term to stay house speaker next year. that was earlier today and in the oval office meeting, we'll let you know. stuart: edward lawrence, thank you very much. interesting stuff, taxpayers paid roughly $38 million every year to employ 297 dei staffers at department of health and human services. come in, tomi lahren. trump's going to end that; right? >> he certainly is. listen, the list of trump appointees just continues to amaze me in the best way possible. i'm especially excited, stuart, about elon musk and vivek ramaswamy going in there with the department of government efficiency and making some big changes. listen, how much money could we save the american taxpayer if we're not wasting it on all of this bologna.

you know, with all of the offices and all the dedicated dei, they've been yet to show us what that's really done to improve the lives of the american people. if they can show us some real proof of this doing any good for anybody, then maybe we can have a discussion. but i think as it stands now, trump has an easy job on his hands and cut the waste, fraud and abuse, let's return that money to the american taxpayers, use it on something much better. i couldn't be more excited for january to roll around. stuart: harris campaign spent over $1 billion and there's now -- and they lost and now they're reportedly $20 billion in debt. how did they manage to spend $1 billion and end up in debt and losing. how did that happen? >> i'll tell you this, i'm happy we didn't elect kamala harris and her team into the white house and this is how they manage money. i don't think any american could afford this on a national level. the democrat party is now married to the cultural elites. they're married to hollywood, married to pop culture, they're married to the entertainment

industry, to the movie stars, and they think that's what's going to sway the american people. i hope that they figured out by now that when average americans can't afford gas and freshes, they don't care what oprah winfrey has to say and call her daddy podcast, they spent six figures to build a replica set. they don't care about that but care about policies and plans and they soundly rejected kamala harris a week ago and maybe donald trump can help them out with their bills. stuart: good one. tomi lahren, keep it going and see you soon. next, elon musk, he promised to keep an active role in his political action committee. what is he doing? lauren: posted somewhat dorman nathanial hackette after a big election and our pack doing the opposite and keep defining increasing republican registration in key districts around the country. it's in preparation for the special midterms and elections and he wants to keep winning and thought we were showing his

tweet. i'll keep reading it. about the presidency, elon musk gave $120 million as part of that donation through his energy, time and targeted outreach going to get specific groups of people to convert to elon musk&message and what he pes to do going to the midterm and rank and file of the republican party and he has to do it all the way through. stuart: what an influence this man has. i want to go back to marc thiessen standing by in washington. it's a triumphant day for president elect trump. he comes down and meets house gop people and going to meet the president and we're about to hear what he has to same it's a triumphant day for him; right? >> it's a historical day. first time since 1892 that a former president after losing the white house came back and won the white house back four

years later and is now sitting down with the man that defeated him four years ago and now who he's defeated by proxy. got him kicked out of the race. it's interesting and giving you a bit of history, stuart, the trump transition four years ago was the worst in history. it's actually was the 1892 transition because grover cleveland came back and defeated benjamin harrison, who had defeated him four years ago and benjamin harrison hated grover cleveland so much, he sparked panic of 1893 and drove the u.s. economy into the ground by warning that the democrat -- that cleveland was going to lift tariffs and destroy the american economy, gold started glowing to europe and jp morgan game to the white house and begged him to do something to stop the panic and not my problem and it's grover cleveland's problem. literally created a wall street crash in order to undermine his successor coming into the white house.

that's -- i expect that probably will not happen this time around. stuart: marc, in the senate, republicans are headed, i believe, to a second vote to figure out who will be their leader in the senate and majority leader of the senate. if it was rick scott, that would complete the wins for trump and i think trump wants rick scott? >> trump stayed out of it. >> this is a guy two years ago handed the senate back over -- handed the senate to the democrats. raised $180 million war chest and waste it had and burned through it in -- by august and left the senate majority in debt and came for them in college and got that. stuart: by the way, i should inform everybody, republicans are headed to the second ballot majority leader and john thune and john cornyn and rick scott getting them out.

i didn't realize that in a moment ago. sorry, mark. we're waiting for president elect trump. he may speak to reporters there outside the white house. i've got to take a commercial break, we'll be back in just a moment. ..

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stuart: what a day it has been. i want to repeat the news from the senate, second ballot to decide who leaves the majority party. rick scott is out of. it down to john cornyn of texas and john thune of south dakota. we saw donald trump arrived at andrews air force base, joint base andrews as it is called these days, made his way to the hyatt regency hotel where he met white house republicans, appear to to get some unity, behind speaker johnson one hundred%. he brought elon musk with him who got a standing ovation. the president-elect, met with president biden, appears to be relatively cordial. the meeting continues and that is where we stand, we are waiting for him to answer questions. time is up for us. neil, it's yours. neil: we are