stuart: i kind of like this. not exactly religious christmas music about carol of the bills is reasonable. good morning. a curmudgeon, aren't i, good morning, 10:00 eastern, straight to the money and i see plenty, dowse up 60, nasdaq top 27, 10 year treasury yield coming down, looking at 4.15%. the price of oil is down, $67 a barrel, bitcoin struggling to get back up close to one hundred thousand dollars, it's close, 99-3 as we speak, numbers just coming in, consumer sentiment index. lauren: the numbers charles: that rose more than expected, this is a limiter number for the month of december, truly captures the sentiment around the country

after the election. came in the highest since april and it rose as our belief that inflation will go up also rose to 2. 9%. this is the country feeling things will change even if inflation doesn't come down. stuart: things are looking up and that's reflected in that number and now this. biden is taking us down a sinkhole. the idea of preemptive pardons makes a mockery of constitutional pardoning power. let me bring you up to speed, donald trump not happy to be attacked in the courts during in the course during the election campaign, it was lawfair. it failed, voters didn't much care for the politicization of the courts, trump won. now in the waning days of his presidency joe biden is very worried the 47th president will come after the people who undermined his candidacy so

he's considering preemptive pardons, forget a and all sins so trump can't hold anyone accountable. imagine in the future blanket pardons for a whole raft of officials. as the wall street journal puts it, the risk of developing a culture of immunity if people in the next administration expect the same, absolution for their guy in four to 8 years, do what you like, get a pardon. biden has stretches pardoning power, hunter was granted absolution for anything he may have done in a tenure period. not only is that the broadest most far reaching pardon ever but an attempt to bottle up an investigation of the biden family. how did they get a $20 million from china. now he's considering preemptive pardons for people who've not been accused of any crime. if they are pardoned does that mean they are guilty of something, what a mess. time for biden to go quietly into the night, leave the stage, don't screw up the future please. second hour of varney just getting started.

jason chaffetz with me here in new york this morning, what do you think of these preemptive pardons? >> i hate them those this message to try to put a blanket over the whole -- it's just wrong and i do think there are more biden pardons to come. james biden in particular, others have vulnerability but this is fundamentally wrong, there's no accusation the three that were mentioned that they did anything wrong but let justice play out and it still bothers people the president fundamentally lied to our faces. they always knew, kay jp says the president just made this decision, nobody believes that either. he was always going to do this. stuart: nobody is above the

law, if you're the president of the united states, cynical way of looking at things but that's how people are feeling out there. if you listen to morning joe, msnbc program talk about the department of government efficiency's plan to cut $2 trillion in federal spending. >> this is a scam, unless they're going to cut social security and medicare and $2 trillion so they so they need to just stop pretending vanna white, just turning letters appear and you are pat sajak. >> so disingenuous. >> i'm happy to be your letter guy but you said it exactly right, this is a completely disingenuous unrealistic ridiculous idea. stuart: really? disingenuous ridiculous idea, is it? >> taking the democratic position that it doesn't matter what deficits and debt is. it is so untenable.

if you don't have the smartest minds in the room to get it done they gave up on being fiscally responsible which is why the country said we are off track and will make a change and that is why they elected donald trump and put republicans in power because they are willing to do what needs to be done and if the democrats are just going to stand in the way i think america will say why would we ever hire you, you have no plan, no desire to put our country back on track and make america great again. stuart: heaven for bid make america great -- thank you very much. i know you are hosting the bottom line will we are going to be watching. i should have got the time up there, 6:00, this network, 6:00, nearly 100 former diplomats and intelligence and national security officials want senate leaders to hold a closed-door nomination hearing for tulsi gabbard. lauren: they are alarmed that

tulsi gabbard could serve as the main intelligence advisor overseeing all 18 intelligence agencies. they cite her previous actions and statements like meeting with the syrian president and making pro russia comments so asking the nomination happen in private to trust us intelligence sources. stuart: milania trump joined fox and friends, the first exclusive interview since trump won reelection. what did she have to say? >> he explained that this time is different because of they know what to expect and that the energy has changed, trump is calm or, more efficient, so she says. >> this is the second time so it is nothing new, the first time was challenging. didn't have much access. we were -- it's very different because i know what you need to establish, you know what kind of people you need to hire to

be in your office so that is what i'm doing now so we could start on day one, everybody is in and we start working and now it is different, the energy is different, people around him are different. lauren: how proud she is of her son baron who helped his father with the social media strategy, the podcast and how he does like college in new york but will not be able to experience it as a normal student because of all the protections, she tells them follow your dreams and then she admitted that she's never done the trump dance and hasn't given him any tips on how to do it and added a golf swing last night. so she said no, i have nothing to do with that. stuart: i'm still surprised when i see the family because baron trump is 6 foot 9, nobody towers above donald trump except his son.

lauren: i remember him being a little kid in the white house. stuart: back to the jobs report, 227,000 jobs added in november. that stronger-than-expected but not much reaction on the market. it is kind of a neutral number as far as wall street is concerned. >> it is better than they expected, stronger, they expected 210, unemployment ticked up, wages were stronger than they expected. there's a little bit to talk about but i also think the market, i'm hearing everybody say the market expects to cut rates in september so the fed should cut rate so it doesn't disrupt the market and to that i say that is baloney, the fed shouldn't cut rates. they been too aggressive but the reason they probably will is they don't want to disrupt the last three weeks, start creating chaos in the markets for portfolio managers and

asset managers in people's retirement accounts. they will most likely cut, some thing i don't think they should do and then we will see the correction in january when the new year starts. stuart: you say the correction, talking about the market, the stock market will come down a bit? >> yeah because the market has not come down at all. we didn't see the correction like a pullback in august, september, october like we typically do, the head of the election they were very aggressive in september, the rate cut but they keep talking it up so now the market has never come back, a budget portfolio manager with friday night cash waiting for the pullback to happen so they can put the money to work, never had the chips and now they are running at the end of the year to get these names on their books so when they send out there year end quarterly statements of they show they have a lot of stocks, bigger positions than a lot of the hot stocks to prove to their investors the people give the money that they are doing the right thing and things will happen in january, all bets are off the table because the new

year starts, everything started 0 again and that is when i think you will see the fed will become more cautious, talk about going slow and not cutting rates and the market will adjust which it should and the digest, and who falls out of the branches and who doesn't. stuart: you don't expect a long-term disruption of the bull market. no full-scale selloff. >> 30% selloff, i don't see that but what i love to see 8% for 10% pullback, would love to see that because then it would shake the bridges and cause people to read focus but i do think the tech and tech revolution is going to continue to power us and affect every thing because every company no matter what industry is using vo-tech, using the ai so i do think long term i am quite bullish on the markets and

investing. but i want the opportunity to put money to work at lower rates, lower levels. stuart: we've had a really good 15 year run, haven't we, basically. since the financial crash. you have a great weekend, cook up something really special, we will talk again next week, see you later. lauren is looking at movers, start with gunmaker smith & wesson. >> down 19%, the current quarter sales will be 10% to 15% lower than a year ago and the ceo says a prime driver of that, inflation. stuart: hewlett-packard enterprises. >> strong demand for their air i service, quarterly revenue, stock is up 10%. stuart: dollar general. >> bank of america has become a goal, they see the stock going up $95 is the price target and now dollar general is doing same-day delivery from the dollar store so they could compete with walmart who does it really well. blue when nice gains one nice gains for a lot of different stocks today.

thanks. still ahead, the manhunt for the united healthcare ceo's killer enters day 3, bus trip and burn her phone could be the keys to the case with watch msnbc's joy read link sex change procedures for children to nazi germany. >> there are more kids who have been exposed to gun violence estimated at 3 million than there are transgender americans of all ages targeting trans people isn't new. it is an age-old tradition which nazi germany did with brutally violent ends in the 1930s. stuart: how did the child's exchange get linked to hitler? we will try to get into that. republicans say the biden migrant parole program is rife with fraud. we ask texas congressman wesley hunt how he can fix it, he's next.

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>> good morning. a handful of pics a couple are his choice for cvp commissioner and his choice for an artificial intelligence and crypto czar. he standing behind his picture defense secretary pete hegseth. he just posted on truth social earlier this morning and part, quote, pete hegseth is doing very well, his supporters strong and deep, much more so than the fake news what have you believe, he was a great student, princeton, harvard educated with a military state of mind or. he will be a fantastic high-energy secretary of defense who leads with charisma and skill, pete is a winner and there's nothing that can be done to change that, pete hegseth responded to that saying, quote, thank you, like you we will never back down. i mentioned cvp commissioner, trump announcing rodney scott as his next cvp commissioner.

that overseas border patrol, scott was the chief of border patrol during part of trump's first term in office, he also served for the first part of the biden administration but was eventually pushed out and ever since, he's been a vocal critic of border policies and last night at the patriot awards trump addressed his recent call with the president of mexico. >> i spoke with as you probably read i spoke the other day to the president, the new president of mexico, very nice woman and we had a very nice conversation, she said why are you doing this to me? i said i'm not, just putting a lot of tariffs on because you are allowing criminals to pour into our country and we can't allow that anymore. >> reporter: interesting tidbit, a source familiar tells fox news that ron desantis will be at the army-navy football game next weekend with donald trump. we send it back to you.

stuart: interesting development. house republicans slamming biden's migrant parole program. data shows that program allowed 530,000 migrants from cuba, haiti, nicaragua and venezuela into america without case-by-case individual review. congressman wesley hunt from texas joined me now. how do you stop this program? >> first of all, pam bondi and tom homan will be the perfect 1-2 punch to get this immigration crisis in line on day one and i sit on this committee, absolutely were to give us to imagine we've got 430, 540,000 illegal immigrants going into this country paid for by taxpaying dollars, no idea who these people are and noncitizens can sponsor parolees from other countries to our great nation and something else.

if you think about 540,000 people, that is almost the size of the congressional district they allowed into our country so i do think donald given a mandate he has high the american people on day one we will see remain in mexico implemented again build a border wall and the strength of donald trump will allow this from happening. stuart: these folks from cuba, nicaragua, venezuela, haiti can't be sent back. those countries won't take them back. they can't take them away. >> we will see about that and what tom homan has in store for them. we can find them and it will take some work and i get your point but at the end of the day if you are an illegal immigrant and in this country, you have broken the law, bottom line so at the end of the day we have to find a way to do right by the american people. stuart: why do you think they did this in the first place? why did they do that?

>>, stan assault on what it means to be an american, cheapening what it means to be an american citizen. of someone like me that served this country, fought for sovereign borders, served as united states congressman to keep our citizens safe the last four years have been an absolute disaster. you ask why they are doing this, i think it is communism, marxism, a lot of people flat out paid our country and they don't want us to exist in the manner in which we do right now and usurping american power makes us weaker and makes the world weaker and this is why donald trump was given a mandate by the american people to return as 40 seventh president to clean this up. stuart: you are being considered as a replacement nominee for secretary of defense so we understand. would you join the trump administration? >> pete hegseth will be the next secretary of defense which i know pete personally.

i was able to model wars in the past 8 years a couple of times and i will tell you that the reason we have the senate, the reason we have the presidency and the reason we have the house is because of donald trump. we must trust his picks and i believe pete hegseth will be the next secretary of defense and i am not running a shadow campaign to get this job. to the contrary i want to support donald trump's pics and make sure whoever he picks, pam bondi, pete hegseth, vivek and elon, this is what the american people want him to do and i supported. stuart: tell us what you really think. congressman wesley hunt, seriously, thanks for joining us this morning, always a pleasure. >> have a great day. stuart: donald trump expected to attend the army-navy football game. i will bet he gets a good reception from that crowd. ashley: i think you are right. by all accounts the president-elect will be

attending the army/navy football game on december 14th in landover, maryland, he's no stranger to the rivalry, he attended it as president-elect in 2016 and three times while he was president. he likes to go. president biden has never attended the traditional matchup between the two military academies as president, only as vice president in 2012 but the whole tradition dates back to 1901 when theodore roosevelt went to the game, spent half the game on the army side and the other half on the navy side. it was through neutrality. trump, to your point, received a rousing reception when he attended last in 2,020 and i would not be surprised if he gets a similar reception this year and want to emphasize bill melugin reported to our sources say ron desantis will attend the game alongside donald trump. stuart: interesting strategic information i would say. thanks a lot.

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stuart: an hours worth of businesses friday morning and we've got all green, thousand 7, nasdaq up 141, zero. 73%. back to the jobs report, 227,000 jobs added in november. edward lawrence joining me now, he spoke to the acting labor secretary, she was pleased with those numbers, right? >> saying we are back to normal, where we should be. if you look at a little surprised to the upside, the biden administration has now created 7 million jobs after adding back the jobs lost in the pandemic. the numbers we focus in on are the revisions. for the first time in a long

time the revisions were revised up. if you look at september and october revised up a total of 56,000 jobs and look where the jobs are, the government jobs in this list created 33,000 jobs meeting over the past month government sector created 34,700 jobs per month, many are concerned about sustainability. it rose 22,000 jobs mainly because the strikes ended. last time manufacturing created that many jobs was a year ago november 2023. it can't reverse the trend of the past three months, manufacturing lost a total of 38,000 jobs when added up over three months. >> the picture of manufacturing is what we've been saying, investments in manufacturing have been historic. the reality is you can't just start manufacturing, you got to build the facilities, construction jobs or been

pretty consistent. >> they needed more time so come january 20th, julie hsu will likely go back to california editor labor secretary will take her place. from experience i wanted to know this about a replacement. >> next labor secretary need to be prounion and maybe a disruptor for republicans? >> yes, to be prounion. one thing this economy demonstrates is what president biden says all the time when unions do well the economy is stronger and everybody benefits. we've seen record wage increases through union contract at the biden table. >> reporter: in these jobs reports we've seen in critical sectors the trend is on the way down, a slowing job market that donald trump believes he can turn around. stuart: thank you very much. lauren is looking at the movers. start with amazon because

that's a solid gain. lauren: meta, ditto for apple. could be a lot of reasons but i can tell you the new crypto nai czar david sachs, silicon valley friendly, they might like the direction of the new administration and new year. stuart: rubric. >> data security software company, they did report a loss but it was smaller, sales very strong, the stock is up 31%. stuart: ever seen the movie dirty white scoundrels? very unfortunate character in that. let's get -- lauren: you ask for a wine story yesterday and i gave you a beer story instead. it is up one. 5%, bank of america says it is a purchase, $70 price target,

fear, sales will recover. they say the industry has now fully digested the bud light controversy. coors light is one of the top-selling brands in the country. stuart: listen to what joy read said about people who oppose transgender procedures for minors. >> after more kids have been exposed to gun violence estimated at 3 million than there are transgender americans in total. targeting trans people isn't new. it is an age-old tradition which nazi germany did with brutally violent ends, the supreme court refuses to do anything about weapons of war in schools they seemed inclined to uphold tennessee's ban on gender affirming care from minors. stuart: carol markowitz is joining me. how to the child's sex change get linked, how did we get to

this stage? >> joy read has been on an emotional roller coaster since donald trump is elected, she advised people cut our family members who didn't vote the way she wanted them to, she has been all over the place, she's grasping at this point. nobody is targeting transgender people, nobody is targeting anything like that. we are seeing experimental treatments aimed at children is the wrong way to go. if you want to view the nazi reference the nazis experimented on the week. that's what we are doing with kids, the supreme court will say the same thing, doing these things to children will harm them irreparably. stuart: looks like the supreme court will rule like that. the pandemic taking a toll on students four years later. fourth-grade math and science scores at their lowest level since 1995, the same occurred

for eighth grade scores going down on the right hand side and new york city public schools are loosening their reading standards to move at the pace of their student. what does that mean? move at the pace of your student? don't you lead them? lauren: i wish someone had said during the pandemic we might have falling education standards, obviously this is where we were going but we can't keep blaming the pandemic. we have to realize we have deeper problems in the education system. for one thing the teachers unions have too much power, they don't have power on their own but have gone power by democrat politicians and we can't let that go on. the story about new york city having kids lead them, what they are saying is they will lower layer standards and limit testing of these kids, we are not going to know if these kids are learning anything. that's what they keep coming back to. they don't want standardized

test or a metric that we can see that they are failing and that is where the problem start here. blue when you think trump can do some thing about that? >> i do. there's a lot of space to do things. he should absolutely expand school choice, the teachers unions not have all the power and control over kids but let the money follow the child instead of going to individual schools, we need to make schools that are failing understand they can't keep surviving like this. we need to close those schools down, get the kids into an educational system that works and so many do. the ones that don't need to be shut down. stuart: let's do that. welcome to new york. good to see you. we are just getting this coming at us. a us federal appeals court has just upheld a law forcing tiktok to be sold or face a ban. care of frederick deals with that next. ♪

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stuart: police are gathering more clues and evidence in the united healthcare ceo shooting. alexis mcadams is with us. how are the police able to obtain the suspect's dna? >> reporter: you don't really think somebody who is about to commit a murder in midtown manhattan would stop at a local starbucks and grab a drink before he does it but that's what investigators say this gunman did. grab a drink 3 minutes before he ended up shooting the ceo, finished it, throws it in the trash so investigators have that, that's what they are hoping to get the dna off of, saliva or whatever else is left

on that water bottle. we also know now that he was in the city for ten 10 days before he killed this ceo. these are the recent photos we just got into our newsroom, we 've been working to pass these out to see if anyone recognizes him, showing these posters that have been around the area too, those words you have right now, deny, depose, defend were also written on the shell casings by investigators, those were left behind at the scene so he was spotted at various locations across the city, took a greyhound bus, investigators say he got on the bus in atlanta and had been in the city for various days at various locations, you see the greyhound bus station do there in atlanta. police tell us the person of interest went to that starbucks before the shooting so that's now key evidence as they try to track his movements to see if he was caught on any other surveillance images, the shooting was caught on camera, the united healthcare ceo brian thompson was walking in midtown

when he was shot not once but two times, once in the chest and once in the leg. police say he used a modern version of an old-school suppressed handgun for this assassination. that's important to take out because i'm told that gun is not founded gun stores in the tri-state area so some type of old-school gun he had to keep marie wracking as it jammed, thompson was ceo of one of the largest healthcare insurers in the world making estimated $10 million a year. you would think you have security with him. in a security expert was shocked he was alone. >> not one top 20 company doesn't have personal security for their ceos. this is completely unusual. >> reporter: investigators are looking into a cell phone that was dropped near the scene according to police. we can tell you that phone is key evidence in this ongoing investigation. they are asking anyone with information to come forward.

stuart: anthem blue cross blue shield has reversed a controversial plan. why the reversal? something to do with the shooting? lauren: heightened awareness by the insurance industry of how their policies could affect their customers. there is widespread outrage after anthem blue cross blue shield said it would payments for anesthesia for patients and deny claims altogether if that surgery exceeded a certain timeline. >> was set to take effect in february. it has been reversed. state officials, the american society of anesthesiologists were against the new policy. the one 80 happened pretty fast and in the wake of the brian thompson murder a few days ago. then there is this. cvs just pulled the photos but the executive team from their company website as the manhunt for brian thompson's killer continues and united

healthcare's leadership page has also been taken down. if you go to it, it redirects you to a facebook page, there's heightened awareness for sure of executive leadership in the insurance industry. stuart: thank you. this just coming to us. federal it feels court has upheld the tiktok law forcing its sale. care of frederick joins me now. you want tiktok to be sold or banned. where is this going? >> probably going to appeal but the deadline is one day before trump's inauguration. that says you have to do vest to an american company or the apps has to be banned altogether. i think tiktok can pull out all the stops, they are really hurting. they have been making a lot of hires, they've been thinking the long arm of the law is not going to reach them. they were confident. this takes the wind out of their sales. they will keep fighting because

it is an existential crisis but trump has decision to make on january 19th. stuart: was anyone prepared to purchase them? >> we have some us companies that have accorded this rhetorical is one of them, we know the big tech companies like facebook, now matter, have been in the running, i'm hoping a smaller tech company like a new entrant or truth social will potentially get involved, we know some of those donors have been intertwined are with the tech movement which i'm a part of so i would love to see an american company take that on. stuart: maybe tiktok won't cell. >> exactly right and the chinese commonest party has already said in documents they won't give up the algorithm. interesting times ahead. stuart: interesting. the fbi is warning iphone and android users stop sending texts to each other. wise messaging from iphone to android not safe?

>> these companies were created to basically make their -- to use their entire system from the ground up. if you have an iphone and are trying to talk to an android user those messages are not end to end encrypted, not safe and china has been able to penetrate those networks so get on a signal apps, get on something that end to end encrypted to ensure the safety of the content of your messages binge saying it forever, do it yesterday. stuart: we understand now, thank you very much indeed. it it is time we drop this is my opinion, time we dropped the president-elect title, donald trump is acting like he is already the president. that's "my take" top of the are, the heritage foundation launched a million-dollar campaign to get trump's cabinet picks through. is that necessary with the gop controlled senate? we will ask the heritage guy lyle walker. ♪

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120 points. the heritage foundation announced they will spend $1 million to support trump's cabinet nominations, the executive vice president at heritage action for america brian walker joins me now. why spend so much when republicans have the senate? is this necessary? >> i think it is. since the 1980s, the average time to can term nominees is almost tripled, from somewhere around 65 days to over 190 days under the biden administration, we know donald trump will have 18 months to accomplish his agenda so he has to get these folks confirmed on a speedy timeline and the senate has to get their act together. stuart: what would you do with $1 million? the senate? >> digital advocacy targeting states of importance, television ads of a text

message campaign to voters urging them to contact their senate office and get folks across the finish line. stuart: are you concentrating on any particular nominees? >> will be nationwide. there are a number of senators who may be undecided so we will have flexibility to do that. stuart: your warning about biden and democrats last minute lame-duck spending, talking a great deal of money, hundreds of billions, can you stop it? >> we can. we at heritage action have been working with speaker mike johnson for months advocating for short-term continuing resolution to get us into march of next year so donald trump and his administration can have their fingerprint on the rest of the funding that gets us to the end of september and mike johnson has abdicated for that, he said that is the plan and that is what they are putting together. we see that. stuart: how will that stop spending? >> gets us to the point in march, right now we have a democrat-controlled senate, we

don't have the ability to get the rain didn't spending but come march when we have a trifecta a government controlled by republicans on both sides of the capital and the white house. stuart: you think you can do it? that's a very big deal? this is green spending that has been stated well in advance, you are talking hundreds of billions. >> doge, department of government efficiency will have recommendations that come out suggesting where those cuts can come from and elon musk and others are committed to making sure these members do that. stuart: will it work? >> i think it will. i'm very optimistic. stuart: you have a smile on your face. you are all right, thanks for joining us, cs anytime you like, steve hilton on charlemagne tha god warning governor newsom he will look like the hypocrite if he trump proofs california. jonathan honing has this exotic

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