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shenanigans. >> speaker made deal with the democrats but didn't inform his constituency, us, the members of congress and allows to weigh in before doing the handshake. >> sure, the economy is performing well and look at something like gep, which is getting inflated by the fact that the government is adding roughly $1 trillion in debt every 100 days. >> trump is not a pushover and he's not going to do whatever someone tells him. we have this guy because he's very smart and america likes him. stuart: i like this. yeah, i quite like this. oh holy night. sixth avenue, doe settered. look at that . all right, 11:00 eastern time. it's thursday, december 19th,

20246789 check that market. dow is up close to 200 but way down yesterday of course. nasdaq up 112 and way down yesterday and we've not recovered from yesterday's losses. big tech a big picture and mostly higher. all higher, nvidia, amazon, alphabet, meta all up. 10-year treasury above 4.5% and something of a negative for stocks, 4.55%. that's on the 10-year treasury. now this, the teamsters union represents around 10,000 amazon workers and they're on strike. one warehouse in san francisco affected along with six delivery stations spread across the country. union wants more money for delivery drivers and accuse amazon of not showing respect for workers. it's the timing of the strike that gets to me right before christmas. it's hard to respect union members when they inflict maximum pain on amazon and its

customers. millions of families look for their gifts in those amazon boxes and some will be disappointed. this strike is just plain nasty. granted, a union needs leverage. you have to rely on pressure to force a employer to give in and pay up but holding up christmas gifts is, for me, a bit too far. we don't know how effective the strike will be if all 10,000 teamsters do go on strike, it's only a tiny fraction of the 1.5 million amazon workers worldwide. the effects may be minimal. we shall see. but deliberately hurting ordinary people at this particular time of year leave as bad taste in your mouth. union demands respect, but it's hard to respect anyone that goes out of their way to upset their fellow americans. big picture here is that amazon is fighting unionization. management wants to keep control of the business, they want to keep the union out. this strike will not resolve that fight, but it'll show a union that's prepared to interfere with your christmas. i hope they lose. third hour of varney starts now.

♪ stuart: all right, brian brenberg joins me now. as i said, the timing of this strike is plain nasty. >> i think it's a very bad look for the striking workers and teamsters, and the reason is because they're not really leveraging amazon here. they're leveraging the american family. leveraging consumers and no american wants to be leveraged and no american out there saying my pay has gone way up. i'm in a much better spot. go ahead and delay my gifts and raise the prices for me. bad look for them and amazon doesn't get dinged in this. amazon said it's not going to disrupt deliveries and let's hope so because it would be nice to have a good christmas. stuart: yes, indeed. elon musk has a huge role in trump's transition team, but

know that. but former obama adviser david axelrod suggests that may be discord between the two. watch this. >> everyone watching this should central on their seatbelts because this is what the next four years will be like. what was confusing to me is musk sends out one of his tweets and says no one should do anything till january 20th when trump get there is. trump sends out a tweet saying thothey ought to pass a clean cr with a debt ceiling raising the debt ceiling because as adam says, he doesn't want to be blamed for it. they seem to be saying different things and eventually they're going to have to get together and decide who the president is. stuart: who the president is. that's a interesting way of putting it. of course other democrats have been labeled musk as co-president. think he's got too much influence? >> no, he doesn't. this is what they're doing, they want discord between mus and can

trump, and they're trying to plant the seed. they think calling musk co-president will make trump mad and he'll abandoned musk. forget it. what musk and trump are doing is what the left hates because it can work, they're going to cut spending, progressives don't want that, and they just want to divide these guys. i don't think these guys are divided. i think trump likes energetic, effective, coworker, colleague, subordinate, call him what you want. musk is getting the trump agenda done. stuart: think they'll be big pals and get along now and for the next two to four years? >> i don't care if their buddies or go to football games or eat at mar-a-lago. i just want them to do what he said and musk helping him to carry that out, cut spending. i don't elect somebody for friendship, i elect somebody for results. lauren: i feel like they have a wore year timetable. they have to get to 226 to get those two -- 2026 to get

$2 trillion in cuts done and set republicans up for the midterms and for a potential vance/musk presidency in 2028. stuart: can that i stay together for two year s? lauren: that's an eternity in that world. >> stand together shoulder to shoulder and cut spending in two years and do whatever they want in their free time. stuart: strong opinions on the show this morning. that's good. well done, sir. stay with me, please. i want you for the hour. >> okay. stuart: back to the markets please. it's green and dow up 112 and nasdaq up just 60 points. nowhere near covering yesterday's losses. here's gary kaltbaum joining me today. to keep an eye on the 10-year treasury and watching it closely and not liking to see it go much above 4.5%. what say you? >> it's driving the bus and jay powell is behind the curve again and he lowers rates and debt and deficits are skyrocketing and i

see my friend brian angry about the debt and deficits, let me give you a little number. in the first two months, there's a run rate of $312 billion a month in deficits and take us to $3.7 trillion of debt this year and if there's any reason why the 10-year yield going to 5, 6, or 7%, that would be a reason. i'm happy to see somebody is fighting it, it's amazing to watch the culprits continue to say, we've got to keep spending and let's do this and let's do that and ignore this and ignore that. we've got to get ahold of this or there's going to be big trouble going forward. stuart: yeah, i mean, this is clearly bad news for the stock market getting near 5%, surely that's bad. >> higher rates is a head wind and especially when you have the most important financial man on earth, jay powell, behind that curve and not understanding

what's going on in the markets right now. he's lowering rates as the real free market, that's the investing and trading and speculating of smart money is selling bonds because they know they have to account for so much debt going forward and whatever else is coming down the pike. stuart: are you buying any stock today? >> oh, no. i'm a coward. we sold down netflix and tesla and they went vertical and i'm sitting back and kept our big cap etfs and still holding app and will now the best news for me and i have a lot of cash right now is we'll start gauging stock withs what stocks and great earnings for them and revenue growth and right groups refuse to go down while the market down and we'll go first for them and we'll be ready. it's patience time for us and not interested in throwing the dart and marks have to work out

yesterday. yesterday was a big bodies blow for the market, and i don't think it comes out so easily. lauren: they describe a compounding version and that stock is down 10%. stuart: i'm really interested in this story. sweet green and at&t are different but both mandating a return to the office. you're in the office five day as week come january. lauren: yep. where am i going to sit? stuart: oh. lauren: you downsized office space and saved money through covid and years after and workers are saying uh, now what? same pre-deckdeckment lauren: we

do you want me to put my stuff? lauren: stay home and going for them and mandate and return to office. stuart: moving onto netflix and doing very well recently. lauren: 904. ups raised to $1,040. not the highest on the street but it's up there and they expect netflix to add 32 million subscribers this year and another 22 million next year. stuart: that's a lot of subscribers. all right, thank you, lauren. coming up, donald trump. could there be a public policy influence. we'll cover it. california plan for a high speed rail is an absolute disaster and more than quadrupled in price and already about four years delayed. we'll bring you an update on this project froms formally golden state.

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stuart: elon musk and donald trump donald trump took to social media to put a stop to the bipartisan government spending bill. hillary vaughn on capitol hill. hillary, what happens now? reporter: stuart, republican haves 48 hours to avoid a government shut down and democrats are saying if a shutdown occurs, it'll be entirely republicans fault. >> thanks to republicans, we're less than 48 hours away from a christmas shut down. unfortunately it seems republicans are in shambles over in the house. >> it'll be their fault that americans don't get disaster relief that americans don't get their social security checks. that is on the republicans. i don't know why trump doesn't hand elon musk the oval office and should have handed hip the gavel if they want that billionaire to run the country. reporter: elon musk had concerns

just as many republicans did and many republican voters did. republicans did not like the disaster aid for hurricane victims was a trojan horse for unnecessary, unpaid, increased spending. the bill included special favors for lawmakers, including a raise for them and also allowing them to use alternate healthcare other than obama care. >> president trump needs to sit down with mike johnson and mike thune and come up with a new skinny cr if the president wants to do something on the debt limit, we need to find out what it is and put it in the bill. the president will have to help mike sell in in the house. speaker johnson's problem is that on the republican side, he's got a bunch of free range chickens. i'm not criticizing it -- or them but they wander off and mike can't catch all of them by myself. reporter: stuart, speaker mike johnson will need all the chickens he can count onto remain speaker in the new year.

one idea floated by rand paul is that president elect trump should consider just making elon musk speaker of the house. stuart. stuart: that's the first time i've heard that one. it won't be the last, i'm sure. hillary, thank you very much. kentucky congressman andy barr joining me now. thank you, congressman, for coming on the show. >> thank you. stuart: i'm hearing that throughout the saga yesterday, a lot of people in congress were looking at musk's tweets. he was sitting there on the phones and there were the tweets coming in. you were one of them and looking at those tweets. does musk have too much influence? >> no, i don't think s. i think this is exactly what the american people voted for when they voted for donald trump, they voted for ken polcari ten seizure disorders and voted for -- k competency and invoter visitative thinking and that's 'em -- innovative thinking and that's elon musk and vivek ramaswamy and bringing inefficiencies to the government and we have a $36 trillion

national debt. so when our phones were ringing off the hook, our constituents were telling us, members of congress, hey, this cr, this bloated cr with all the extraneous spending that's not paid for, that's not what we voted for. we voted to implement government efficiency measures like those that elon musk is advocating for. so not too much influence. the right influence to get to a better product. stuart: well, you want this skinny cr. you want trump down to about 100 pages maybe and get rid of all this spending as you possibly can. would that pass, could speaker johnson get that through in the gop? >> i think he can. and i think it will pass. i think we're going to be voting on a more skinny, more fiscally responsible, more paid for continuing resolution. look, the last continuing resolution we passed back in september was only 21 pages. this was 1,500+ pages.

it had healthcare reform and it had subsidies for industry in there. had congressional pay raise and money for the key bridge and money in there for the commanders none of it paid for and some of the measures are important and certainly the disaster aid and assistance to farmers is very important, but needs paid for and nothing in there that the american people rejected in november. owe that's political posturing from chuck schummer and that's his fault. the democrats were shorthanding all the extraneous unpaid for provisions and i don't buy it. we're not going to shut down and

speaker johnson working with president elect trump on a package, on a skinny, fiscally responsible package, and we'll get the votes. democrats won't like it and democrats won't be voting in favor of this thing because they want more debt and deficits. they want more fiscal recklessness, thank goodness we have a president coming in with leaders surrounding him like elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. this is a sign and not just a message for republicans but a message for democrats that no longer are we going to be doing business as usual in washington. stuart: okay, congressman andy bar. pleasure to have you on the show. thanksfor jumping in at the last minute. appreciate t sir. lauren: he drew in half of nfl game and that's a record and 31% more than last year and 11th most watched college

football game this season. viewers turned in and saw donald trump and yd vance, pete hegseth, mike johnson all sitting together at luxury suite. daniel penny was there and news worthy and exciting. not to mention what they saw on the field was good too, navy beat army, 31-13. stuart: usa, usa that turned me on. i like to hear that. as a american myself, i like it. >> a nice change of pace, just a very pro usa sports game with interesting fellows in the box and upset victory on the field, stu. stuart: i love it. check the biggest winners in the dow 30 and industrials up 250 and nice gain. nasdaq up as well. big winners among the dow 30, bouhleling topping the list at -- boeing topping up 3% and nvidia up, american express, visa and amazon. small business owners in seattle begging the mayor to crack down

on crime saying they don't feel safe. seattle guy jason rantz bringing us the story. california's high speed bullet train suppose to cost $33 billion and that's surpassed that. doge is looking into it and leo terrell will take it on next. ♪

stuart: all right, still got plenty of green. dow up 270 now. 280, and the nasdaq is up 175. boeing is a mover today. what's the story? lauren: td cohen said it's going to $200 and they expect the stock price to rise rapidly increasing airplane production because the strike is over. more orders are coming in, turkey's low cost carrier ordered up to 200 of boeing's planes. stuart: that's another dip i

missed and now it's sprinting up. lauren: it was down there. stuart: o-k-l-o, oklo, nuclear energy. lauren: up another 12% and web bush said it's a buy and price going to $26 and cost of ai revolution that's underway. industry, they say, will need a tenfold increase in computing power by 2030, and nuclear is one clean reliable way to do it. stuart: sure is. thank you, lauren. california's high speed rail project is years behind schedule and billions over budget. now it's catching the attention of the doge team. max gordon joining us from hanford, california, where there's supposed to be a high speed rail station. will it be ready any time soon? reporter: stu, we're a long ways from seeing trains running and this project was supposed to be completed back in 2020 with a price tag of $33 billion. as you can see here, construction is still underway, a long way from completion.

still no clear completion date, and the price tag has ballooned to around $128 billion for the entire line. because of this, one california congressman wants to cut off federal funding. >> high speed rail authority says there's still a funding gap of $100 billion. they don't know where that money will come from. there have been five more ceos of the rail authority than there have been passengers, that's five ceos and zero passengers. a reporter: doge highlighted the woing on x and approved with a bond measure and props is that san francisco and los angeles could be conducted by bullet train with a protected top speed of 220 miles per hour and train delivers riders between the two cities in less than three hours competed with airlines and busiest domestic routes in the u.s. and providing a economic

boost with stops on the line and places here in handout ford. >> i don't feel like i'm going to see it end. to be honest with you. i mean, if it is done, that's wonderful, but i see more of the setbacks than i actually do see the progress. ism there's no operational lines and the train sets not even picked out yet. with the continued funding and ballooning cost, it's a line criticized as a train to nowhere this first segment will likely come at cost nearing the initial estimate of the projects estimated to be done between 2030 and 2033.

they emphasized the project created thousands of jobs and progress is being made. stu. stuart: we're all laughing at that set here in new york. max gordon, thank you very much indeed. we need california guy and we got one. his name is leo terrell on the right hand side of your screen. leo, it seeps to me that this high speed rail project, it's a boondoggle and that's putting it mildly. do you want to see doge take it over? >> i want doge to cut the funding, take it over completely, not a single nickel or dime to this program. stu, it started in 2008. it is 2024, and there's no date, no amount that could be definitive as to when it'll be completed and how much it's going to cost. there needs to be an investigation into all the money. it received federal funding. if i'm talking to elon, not

another dime. destroy the case, detroit rail or give to private contractor with no more government funds. governor newsom is a lame duck governor and got priorities wrong and wants to focus on illegal immigrants and not on american taxpayers or citizens of california. stuart: i don't see why i as a taxpayer in the northeastern united states, why should i subsidize a boondoggle going nowhere in california. you're right. this is something that doge should look at. this is in their purview, federal money going out and it's a waste of money. they should be there and cutting and that's my opinion at least. one more for you, leo. california prop 36, which increases penalties for certain left and drug crimes. it's now in effect. has there been any impact so far? >> we don't know because it's a

brand new bill and gavin newsom is opposed and, stu, the processer i have is we might have a prosecutor wanting to do a good job but we have people like karen bass and chief of police in la and won't participate or cooperate with ice and direct attorney can't prosecute if he doesn't get people arrested in los angeles and san francisco, you've got progressive politicians who are against incarcerating criminals. they don't to want put criminals in the -- jail. they want us to co-economist with criminals to the jury is out on prop 36. give me six months and bring it back and i'll tell you if there's an increase in arrest and decrease in shoplifting and crime. stuart: i'm looking that the from new york, this is where i live.

slight move to the right and slight move away from the left. am i right? >> 100% right and voters are shifting right and trump supporters and politicians and gavin newsom, the karen bass. they're in the finest. gavin newsom pes to trump-proof california and they're moving to the right. that's the problem, democrats still control california. we need to turn this state at least purple. stuart: purple, okay. we'll take it. leo terrell. you're all right. stuart: brian, will this bring law and order back to california? >> leo makes a great point of where it gets executed and where it doesn't. the place it is does, if 70% of californians want this and they do it, they'll see results in their streets.

i think they will like it. i don't think any place in america is too far gone. i love a good redemption story, and if california goes purple, it's better than purple deep blue so i say go for it. some cities might lose out. they've got mayors that stand in the way. people will flock from those places to other pl places in california or out of the state and force the issue. one way or the other. lyric democraty mayor of lost anless under investigation for a bomb threat. fbi searched the home of brian williams after police said an initial investigation showed williams as the likely "likely source" of that bomb threat and the case was referred to fbi and la mayor karen bass confirms that brian williams put on paid administrative leave. williams maintains his innocence. stuart: thank you, lauren. coming up, doge's influence not limited to capitol hill.

one state creating its own version of the department. we'll tell you where that's happening. first though, one of the last acts as governor of washington state propose ago new wealth tax. jason rantz, our seattle guy will lay out inslee's plan for us after this. ♪

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previously inaccessible oil and natural gas, allowing us to deliver the energy we all need today so everyone can follow their own road. that's energy in progress. stuart: outgoing governor of washington state jay inslee, proposing a new wealth tax to address the multibillion dollar short fall. jason rant coming in -- jason rantz, come on in, please.

what kind of wealth tax? >> that's a good question and he hasn't given us all the specifics and a worldwide wealth tax and intent, it appears, it go after any kind of wealth that's jury trial joust held, stored in washington state but perhaps in other states and perhaps in other countries. on top of that, it looks like he wants to go after unrealized gains and seems rather browed in scope and at the same time -- broad in pope and he's hit a scope of $13 billion deficit and he's increasing spending and # relying on wealth tax to mitigate budget woes. stuart: there's no details and supposing i live in washington state and have a house in florida, valued at x number of dollars. does the governor propose to take money off me because i've got an asset in florida?

>> that that appears the take and there was a bill stalling and this year seems to be egotore jet again attempt this and this would be the first in the country and this is after a successful plan to do capital gains tax and it was cryobank leerily unconstitutional because it was an income tax, but our state's supreme court decided, oh, no, we're not going to treat as income tax. they they they have the political support to do it and it'll be interesting and if it's allowed to happen here, i guarantee you it's going to happen in other blue states around the country. stuart: private wealth is the last great storer of money and don't have a piece of it.

>> they're not going to get a response to the better and we continue to deal with crime both nonviolent and violent crime. we just had a metro bus driver that was stabbed to death a couple days ago and the suspect is still out there. it's a homeless american and going on that route today seams to sense in tackling greater crime crisis from the politicians that have imposed policies that it clearly made this city and region less safe. i don't answer tis pate the mayor will come out and say -- anticipate the mayor will say the policies we're responsible for we're going to go after the criminals we've elmore boldened and would hurt them politically and they'll keep their head in the sand and frankly, it'll be up the to voters to finally decide if you're concerned about the crime crisis and you are

concerned about quality of life issues, change the political decision. stuart: what have you got to lose. jason rantz, thank you very much indis'd. >> it's the last great store of independent power and create a company and go back after the government and hold them accountable and if they take all your wealth, you can't do that. that's why progressives hate health and it's independence from their control. >> it's very good news.

stuart: the wisconsin assembly slated to introduce a new committee inspired by doge. that's interesting. tell me more. lauren: they're calling it goat, not greatest of all time. it's the trend do more with less and cost efficiency and it's inspired by vivek ramaswamy and elon musk. the wisconsin state carry as budget surplus. yet the state assembly said we can find ways to use technology and artificial intelligence to lower the cost for every day life for our residents and bring in more money. stuart: sounds good to me. stuart: ngoat. not greatest of all time. show me the dow 30, sense of the market. more buying and more green than red and dow up 250 points. it was down a lot more than that yesterday.

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stuart: president elect trump nominated 12 catholics to top positions in his administration. resident theologian jonathan morris joining us this morning. will they take the gop in new direction s? >> a lot of these written by non-catholics but non-christians that say oh my gosh, i counted and there's 12 cath libs and what could that mean? maybe the pop will be telling president trump what to do or something. it's not true. the same things were said about the supreme court because there's a lot of catholics in the supreme court right now. that's just a result of immigrant communities and italians, irish, others and germans being successful and doing well for themselves. what we will see with these 12 catholics is that they're believing christians for the most part. that will have an effect on the

admin vagues in other words evangelicals, catholics, christians and jewish people as well who find in the united states a place for judiah christianity is not only respected but looked to for direction in their decision making. that's what we're going to find. catholics among them who are converts and example jd vance who have said as an adult, this is what i choose! they're definitely going to be following their faith as they pursue policy. and let me tell you one last thing, it's not so much -- remember george bush talked about a compassionate conservatism among very solid catholics, i think who are thinkers, it's more of a common good conservativism, which is system similar to a populism.

stuart: i have one more. we have a new new york times op ed and asks what if our democracy can't survive without christianity? the authors are worry that had christianity in america is becoming more secular and weaponnized. what's that mean? >> first of all, again, you have to look to see who's writing this; right? i would agree with them, if you take christianity out of our country, it's a very different country, which means it's not a country that supports a democratic organization or ethos and christianity that says, actually individuals and not government are the ones that are supposed to be making decisions about our lives and government is to serve the people. yes, i would agree with them in that in terms of weaponnizing, listen, you can weaponnize anything you want and start wars in the name of christianity and start wars in the name of islam and start wars in the name of

i'm in charge so i can tell you what to do. christianity saying just because you're in charge doesn't mean you can tell us what to do. stuart: we have a minute left. what's your christmas message? >> it's notny my message but amazing, amazing message that millions and millions of americans follow, and that is that god loves us so much that he gives us a second chance. that he loves us so much he's willing to come to us not in the form of power or might but the form of a little baby. that anyone whether you have faith or not would embrace. imagine god being born in human form in a stable. surrounded by animals who are sometimes much better than people, and in the form of a baby that everyone can embrace. that's really powerful and turns out that it's separated, bc and ad. it is a line in the sand of human civilization and

existence. stuart: your delivery was terrific and you dropped your voice and slowed down and emphasized. that was good. that was good. >> thank you. stuart: ladies and gentlemen, a quick programming note, don't forget to check out martin scorsese presents the saints on fox nation. watch this. >> you believe you were sent by god? >> yes. >> in the river jordan. >> in the name of the one true god. stuart: watch all four episodes of this season available now on fox nation. here we go, the thursday trivia question. not bad. tom hanks plays how many

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stuart: how many different roles did tom hanks play in the polar express? it helps if you have watched the movie. what is it? lauren: 6. brian: h. stuart: before jonathan morris left the studio he said four. i'm going with four. the answer is six. he plays the boy, the father, the conductor, train, the scrooge puppet and santa claus as well. now you know. we are getting ready to celebrate 15 years on the air for this show. share a message, tell us where you are from and your favorite moment from the show and send a video to varneyviewers@fox.com. neil: you can't miss m