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ashley: how about all little bit of luck your. happy friday, very quiet in midtown manhattan on christmas week. i am ashley webster in the first stuart varney, 10:00 eastern in the morning. markets have been down since "the opening bell" but winning for the week. of the dow down a quarter of one%, the nasdaq the biggest loser down one. 3%, the 10 year, we capon i on this, the yield finally coming down below 4.6 but only 4.59%. the price of oil hovering around $70 a barrel for quite some time and exactly where it is, $70.35, bitcoin after

moving lower yesterday starting to move lower, down $400, $95,354 for bitcoin. president biden could be remembered as the guy in between the trump terms. >> what you have seen is a slow receding into the bushes from joe biden and a difficult thing to know that he came into the presidency as a rejection of donald trump and here he is being replaced by donald trump. i had a conversation with a senior person in the white house and if harris loses, most of the way biden is going to be remembered as the guy in between the trump terms. ashley: makes a compelling point. is he right? how will history remember joe biden?

>> it was baked in from the beginning. joe biden was nobody's first choice to be the democratic nominee when he ran into thousand 20. if you look on the stage, you saw a group of young, fairly untested candidates who were too far to the left for the people in charge to refute donald trump and their point here was never to put some new visionary leader in the white house but to get rid of donald trump. it is what they've run on since 2016. joe biden walking into the south carolina primaries was a dead man walking until support was rallied by heads of the democratic party to put him in as a placeholder and that is what he served to be. it was sad. you see these fake historians coming in, democratic partisan historians telling him he is the new fdr, he is going to

reshape american society and they passed an ambitious agenda the first two years but all of it got held up by their own dei standards. a lot has never been realized and the last couple years has receded from the spotlight. ashley: i want to move on to this one. uncommitted voters blaming kamala harris campaigning with liz cheney for why they turned toward trump. one uncommitted voters said, quote, there's been many ways in which harris chose miss cheney and the donor class abandoning working families in places like dearborn who make up the people democrats claim to be fighting for. it is a point thateen told many times and seems to be a problem for the democrats that isn't going away. >> i don't think i've ever seen a campaign run as incompetently as kamala harris's presidential campaign. it started strong. the dnc was a coup.

the american flag every where. all the talking points focused on lifting up the american worker and the american family, barely heard any dei stuff, didn't hear the neoconservative foreign policy stuff but that fell apart as they got more nervous as they had to answer questions. the democrats have been accused since hillary clinton and before that of being a neoliberal party close to wall street than they would like to admit, more warlike than the republican party and than they would like to admit at that is abandoned working-class families and kamala harris ended up leaning into every one of those stereotypes and some voters noticed. ashley: where do they stand now? i feel their message is mixed to say the best and doesn't have a clear leader. do they?

>> there is no clear leader and underreported civil war in the democratic party. alexandria ocasio cortez represents the left-wing flank but also represents youthful vigor in the democratic party and the best messengers, she was pushed aside for a man who's approaching 80, who has stomach cancer who represent the old guard. there's other reasons he would be in charge of oversight, there's a more serious investigator than aoc but you see squabbles like that breaking out. two members of the squad giving their final speeches because they were elected by hillary clinton and other democrats and three of their colleagues showed up to wish them goodbye. there is some soul-searching going on but at the same time really shellshocked trying to figure out who to blame for this defeat. a lot of heads are going to roll but whose heads is still up in the air. ashley: interesting to follow that.

thank you for taking time out to chat with us. thank you so much. wayne gretzky's wife, about becoming the prime minister of canada, what is the story. has she responded? >> reporter: in the world of social media she has responded. she didn't say anything but she did repost the truth social post and in the world of social media that's kind of an endorsement that shows she is paying attention to it and it's giving the idea more attention. trump posted on truth social that wayne gretzky should run for prime minister of canada. in the same post he does say gretzky seemed uninterested in the idea but gretzky's wife may be fueling the fire, she rate posted this on her own instagram story which disappears after a certain time, it is no longer there.

with someone like that it gets a lot of attention. trump's post came as trudeau is facing pressure to step down in his own parliament, gretzky was seen wearing a amaga had in palm beach, the only title he is holding is the great one. ashley: the great one. i think he would do anything he wanted in canada even though he ditched edmonton for los angeles. he is a legend by any measure. let's get back to the markets and we are moving lower this morning but still up for the week. santa hasn't abandoned us. don't worry about that. great to have you along. this is a bull market. you are a little more bearish. why? >> reporter: i'm concerned because i'm looking at the market, the indices are up but looking at most stocks the average stock is not doing

well, 60% of stocks are below the short term moving average and you have a massive concentration, this is the big story. a relatively small bunch of stocks, actually make up 40% of the index. that's the highest ever since the dot.com era. stocks have been on such a roll. we will finish up 20%, the second year in a row. the market hasn't done that since 1998. be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy. people are too greedy in my book. ashley: what about inflation? could we see higher inflation? there are those concerned that the fed will cut again in the near future and things will get tougher for them and inflation will rise.

>> i'm in that camp, not my feeling, but treasury yields since the fed started cutting rates in the september, treasury yields are up from 3.6% on the tenure to almost 4. 6% on the 10 year once again. reminds me very much of 2021. it started going up in the beginning of the year, the fed was late, we are in the same category and i think inflation, serious cuts from doge. we need serious cuts in government as inflation is centralized once again. ashley: we always talk about the magnificent seven, the ai players. any other areas of a market we would hope to see the market broaden out a little bit and if that's the case, where do you see the strengths? >> looking at all the areas that have been week the entire year in 2024.

they have been tossed out trading at record discounts. they have a long perspective when it comes to stocks. at the end of the year we see a lot of those names get thrown out. 2025, some add value add value balance once again and that is where i put money over that. ashley: always comes with so much information. thanks for being here on this friday. have a great weekend. we are looking at some of the movers this morning beginning with google. a strange year for google, third with layoffs, controversy over gemini as well as a reported decline in company morale. employees are questioning the leadership of the ceo covid he's been the golden boy for so long, google down 2%.

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ashley: let's do this, check of the markets, we are still down, look at the dow off 300 points, down about 3 quarters of one%, the s&p down one. 4 and the nasdaq down 400 points, down 2%, no doubt about it, we are picking up some downward momentum. now this was south korea's parliament has voted to impeach the acting president two weeks after he was impeached for declaring martial law, stephanie bennett joins us of this morning, this is political chaos, right? >> reporter: the impeachment cause damage the country's political and international image and deepened economic uncertainties as well. take a look at these scenes,

chaos unfolded as south korea's opposition control nationalism we voted to impeach the acting president with a vote of 19220, lawmakers from the people power party crowded around the speaker's chair in protest changing the vote was invalid and accuse parliament of committing tier any. they boycotted the vote altogether. he was prime nester before he took over after president yun was impeached after marshall on december 3rd. when protests erupted outside national assembly. the impeachment means he will also be stripped of the powers and duties of the presidential gel the constitutional court decides to dismiss or reinstate him while the court is reviewing whether to uphold yun's earlier impeachment, finance minister will be the next interim president. he announced the government has ordered the military to step up vigilance raising the possibly

north korea could take advantage of its political situation. this took a toll on the country's currency which dropped to its lowest point since march of 2,009. in the meantime, one hundred 80 days to decide whether to reinstate or remove him which if they decide to remove him they have to hold a presidential election within the next 60 days. a lot going on. we have to keep our eyes on it. ashley: absolute chaos. thank you for explaining that. is really intensifying strikes against the houthis in yemen. they hit infrastructure israel says the houthis used to bring iranian weapons into yemen. former cia station chief dan hoffman joins me now. we have the fronts of lebanon and gaza and yemen which is

1000 miles away, not like it is on israel's border. is the middle east conflict worsening? >> absolutely. october 7, 2023, was an inflection point where israel began a multi-front war against iran and its terrorist proxies. israel has taken the fight to hezbollah, hamas and the houthis as well as iran. all of them on their heels from when they decapitated hezbollah leadership. they struck the leader of hamas, remember the pager operation in beirut, the houthis have been launching ballistic missiles, they've had enough of that and now they are going to take it to them as well.

they've begun by striking international airport and those seaports, that would disrupt the supply-chain with their munitions and financing and that is the first step. i expect more strikes from israel in the coming days and weeks. ashley: can donald trump bring peace to the middle east? he says he will achieve it. how does it happen? >> there is opportunity that israel has created, the change in power when bashar al-assad has fled syria and now is moscow's man living in russia in exile. he used to be vladimir putin's ally in damascus. if we don't stay engaged in the middle east, we could risk a power vacuum. we've got to be concerned about the terrorist threat, doesn't mean we need to involve our self in another forever war or send massive troops there.

we need to be involved diplomatic and insured turkey in the gulf states have post-conflict reconstruction. ashley: president biden pledging to send more weapons to ukraine following russia's christmas day at attack. vladimir putin says he will meet with trump so should we hold off on sending more weapons to ukraine until trump officially takes office? >> ukraine needs of those weapons. air defense. this is a reflection of the biden administration's failed policy, they never gave ukraine what they needed when they needed it, too little too late, that is why ukraine continues to suffer these attacks on critical infrastructure denying people heat and power. biden administered and behaved as if ukraine had infinite amount of time to defend themselves from this russian onslaught and now it is over to the incoming trump administration to make clear to vladimir putin who is the one who launched the war in the

first place. if you want the war to end russia has to stop it. we've got to convince the russians the carrying on the war is not in their best interests and that's going to be a challenge. ashley: terrific insight as always. thank you for talking with us today. appreciate it. we are going to move on. the squad wants to end the us-led investigation into spain's anti-israel arms embargo. madison: an independent agency, the federal maritime commission investigating spain for denying port entry to ships that are carrying weapons bound for israel. cory bush, rashida tlaib, wrote to the fmc telling them to stop and an insult to our allies in spain, and spain is trying to prevent genocide, spain is a long-standing ally of the us and a member of nato. they said they would stop selling weapons to israel and the war with hamas broke out in

2023 and since then, the spanish government has been accused in three separate occasions of refusing ships with arms mentor israel into the airport, two of those ships were us vessels. the squad has frequently accused the biden administration of being too friendly to israel which is the us's closest ally in the middle east. ashley: interesting indeed. thank you very much. we just had this in. donald trump says bill gates has asked to visit mar-a-lago tonight, trump sharing the news and a true social poster writing in part where are you? why are you coming to the center of the universe, bill gates asked to come tonight. we will bring you more as we get it on this story, never a dull moment. that is that. coming up, doge is looking to a limited the consumer financial protection bureau, we are going to ask if must and vivek ramaswamy's plan can work.

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ashley: as we look at the markets gaining downward momentum, the dow off 365 points, s&p down 1.3, nasdaq down 400 around 2%. now this which are hearing for the guatemalan migrant charged with lighting a woman on fire on a new york city subway has been set for january 7th. nate for a is outside the brooklyn supreme court. what happens now? >> reporter: we got some news, a grand jury has handed up an indictment on sebastian the better --zabetta who was accused of lighting woman on fire and killing her on sunday morning, we heard from eric gonzalez, the district attorney

laying out the charges from that grand jury and they are as follows, 1st ° murder in one count, three counts of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree arson. that means he if convicted of the charge faces life in prison without parole. he did waive his appearance in person in court today but we expect to see him during his arraignment on january 7th, '20 indictment is set to be unsealed. we also learned that the woman who was killed in that fire during this attack we still don't know who she is. prosecutors say the medical examiner and nypd are working to identify here and made some progress but the das said that he's very confident in the evidence in this case. a lot of it was caught on videotape. you see zapeta as mayor adams is pushing for federal arson

charges against him as well. look at this statement from mayor adams asked press secretary, he directed the nypd to work in our legal authority with isis homeland security investigations team to explore criminal charges against zaptea under the federal arson statute. that is significant because it could allow authorities to cooperate with immigration authorities which is something that generally doesn't happen in new york city because of sanctuary laws. gonzalez outside the courthouse says he wants to this to be a staid case which is more serious than the federal arson charge and he is confident in his ability to secure justice in this investigation. ashley: thank you very much.

new york city council minority leader joe borelli joins us now. eric adams pushing for the feds to charge, what would you like to see him charged with, how should this be handled? >> it is a cry for help by eric adams, the final way of being able to cooperate with ice should this murder charge not pool through. ashley: how could something like this happen? you can't stop people doing what they do but this is beyond imagination. how could something like this happen? >> it is amazing and it represents the culmination of the unease people have felt the last 5 or 6 years as subway crimes have risen and unfortunately as more people come here illegally. this is the last stop on a train begun by president biden

on january 2021 when he took office and implemented the 94 executive actions that undid all the work of donald trump at the border. the end result, people who were deported, and now face criminal justice system but committing one of the most heinous crimes in recent memory. ashley: new york governor kathy hochul signing a rule requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for the cleanup from natural disasters. she says they need to pay since they caused climate change. ultimately, we are all going to end up paying more for these costs. is there anyway to stop it? >> it is like someone went to buffalo in 1972 and stole her economic textbook. of course if these big companies that provide energy to new yorkers have to pay more they are passed off to

consumers. alaska and hawaii, new york has the highest energy rates in the country and by and large it is due to energy policy at the state level and the tax structure. this burden placed on oil producers will require customers to pay more. this is a person who is disconnected from the reality of affordability in new york state and she's from buffalo. she knows how cold it is in upstate new york and knows how much new yorkers rely on fossil fuels to heat their homes and power their automobiles and other appliances. this is going to result in nothing, this is not going to end climate change, nothing more than new yorkers having to pay and go into their pockets even deeper to provide energy. ashley: is this going to be challenged in court?

>> of course and there will be federal charges in federal court and i think according to a lot of legal analysts the companies will get more favorable years in federal court. how does new york level finds against french energy companies, saudi energy companies, we don't have the mechanism to do that. if she wants to implement these it will go to the local energy providers and be reflected in our bills. ashley: what message to business does it give? >> it tells businesses most of which they already knew that new york is not a place to open a business if you want to employ more people and to manufacture things. if you have a high energy consumption business, this is not going to be a state for you. this is a state the five years

ago andrew cuomo supplied something like 80% of new york city's clean energy and andrew cuomo crow close that plant to appease environmental activist and the net result is more for the downstate market, this will affect upstate even more. when you talk businesses, tons of government subsidies to attract manufacturers to upstate new york but policies like this that put up with the most significant roadblock to companies opening shop on their own. ashley: we have to leave it there. thanks for taking the time to talk to us. appreciate it. thank you. still i had come millions of americans are expected to hit skies, roads, rails during what could be a record-breaking holiday travel season. more on to that store, donald trump will bring back a famous button on his desk in the oval office. we will tell you what is next.

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ashley: let's look at these markets, we should point out the nasdaq is down 2.1%, actually up 2.3% for the week. almost all of that is being wiped out, the dow was off 400 days five points down 1%, the s&p also down one. 4%. %. let's take a look at the check names with the nasdaq down more than 2% and no big surprise, all down, apple, alphabet, amazon, nvidia down 3% down to 135-48. we keep an eye on that. a long way to go in today's session.

doge looking to reduce, merge, or even eliminate the top bank regulators in washington. grady trimble at the white house, that sounds ambitious, what's the plan? >> reporter: elon musk and vivek ramaswamy wanted to go after the consumer financial protection bureau. they say it should be deleted entirely or consolidated with other financial regulations. in a post on x, vivek ramaswamy went after the cr fee be for overreach because of a rule finalized two weeks before christmas. here is what vivek ramaswamy right, the latest gambit is a symptom of a deeper and unconstitutional cancer of unelected bureaucrats substituting their policy judgments for those of congress. that is un-american and needs to end. the rule he's talking about is part of president biden's war

on what he calls junk fees. it requires banks with $10 billion in assets to reduce their overdraft fees from an average of $35 when an account goes to negative. they have the option for what was cost and losses or any amount in the overdraft fee like a loan with a very clearly marked interest rate. the wall street journal editorial board rights the biden administration's logic hardly any fees are justified even for free checking. regulators think every customer is a rubik in need of protection it evidence is an afterthought. the board calls on congress to repeal this rule but if elon musk gets his way he might get rid of the agency entirely which would need congressional approval. we will see what happens when

doge puts forward the recommendations not expected until 2026. ashley: appreciate it. trump's administration nominees are creating waves after a social media brawl over immigration. what's going on? madison: there's a divide between some trump loyalists and his new tech friends. they are discussing plans to increase green cards for high-tech immigrants, this shows the influence tech billionaires have had on republican leadership, musk posting on christmas day, quote, there's a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent calling it the fundamental limiting factor in silicon valley claiming america will lose without more high skilled immigrants. he's one of them but there's been pushback from trump loyalists when trump named a

former vc to serve as his artificial intelligence advisor it sparked concern because he is in support of removing country's on green cards for high skilled workers. countries with high skilled workers could get more green cards. some close to trump are wary of any immigration expansions so we will see this come into play. ashley: next one for you, donald trump is going to be back in the white house january 20th and bringing back something to the oval office with him. >> what i want to talk about is the diet coke button. when trump moves into the oval office on january 20th he will get his famous diet coke button back, this is a red button that allows trump to summon a butler to bring him his favorite drink, diet coke, the button used to reside on the resolute desk but was removed by biden

when he took office, not as big a fan of diet coke but is coming back and a lot of things come in and out but it takes five hours for the white house to move one president out and the next one in. it is remarkably quick. it won't get done in five hours but the button trump could bring in himself. if they are slower i have no doubt that button will be on the desk once he assumes the white house. ashley: i want a cheeseburger button. it is good to be president. thank you very much. still ahead. a new gallup poll shows voters believe the government is the biggest problem facing the us. john levine will take that on. the olympic boxer who failed a gender test took her place in the female athlete of 2024, jennifer is a former levi brand president who launched her own athletic brand that stands up for female athletes.

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these markets after being positive this week. here we are on friday, the dow off 319 points, the nasdaq down 1.8%. we were lower than this a while ago. we are trying to make a comeback. let's look at mastercard. the company released its annual report on holiday spending and found the total retail sales rose 3.8% between november 1st and december 24th. online spending jumped 6. 7%. %. and store sales were up 2.9%. restaurant spending rose 6.3%. the report claims the last five days of shopping this year accounted for 10% of all holiday spending. i speak from experience. levi strauss company brand president jennifer say joins me now.

shoppers increased spending this year despite higher prices. what do you make of that? >> they are feeling optimistic, they feel bullish, people spend money when they are optimistic about the future, feeling good about their prospects as we round the corner into 2025 and they are spending money. it is noteworthy the bigger brands, nike for instance, reported week quarterly earnings, evidence that consumers have more options than ever before, voting with their dollars and some of the bigger established brands, without all the upside. ashley: 36% of americans took on holiday debt totaling an average of $181. it is up from last year's debt. i noticed 50% or close to half

of americans carrying balances on their credit cards from last christmas. is this a troubling trend? >> troubling trend, increased spending with optimism about the future and prospects and the ability to make more money and as a country, get that under control. ashley: i want to move on to this subject, the top three female athletes of 2024 by the associated press. caliph qualified for the personal and mixed but her gender was called into question following a disqualification from the 2023 championships. should this athlete have been in the top three of this list

and complete on the women's side of boxing? >> no. this is a male. medical reports confirm this is a male that should not be competing and winning gold in women's boxing. it is a black eye, i would say, for women's sports, the ap sticking with this woke nonsense after we are calling it quits but we have a long way to go. the ap nominating and mail is one of the top three female athletes of 2024 is evidence that we have a long way to go in overcoming dei and woke, it is firmly embedded in media and corporate culture, companies and universities and we need to push back, this has been dropped upon us with your dollars, we need to follow and watch media that reports the truth and doesn't further lies like this. vote for bands. that is evidence. when consumers vote, it is

evidence that people want the truth. ashley: is there progress being made that a male dominating female sports cannot be right. >> the second male won gold at the olympics in women's boxing it is being rewarded with this nomination. the wind is against our backs but we shouldn't be complacent and take it that trump would wave a magic wand and it would go away, we need to stand up and raise our voices. ashley: a good place to leave it. thank you as always for taking the time to talk to us. >> happy holidays to you. ashley: happy holidays to you too. still had on the show. john levine on governor hochul putting the brakes on the surge

pricing amendment in the congestion pricing plan. it starts in just a matter of days. christian whiten on vladimir putin saying he's ready for a meeting with trump. david webb will be here with universities pushing dei and woke ideology. and sheriff mark daniels on guatemala open to taking trump's central american deportees, progress perhaps. the 11:00 hour of "varney and company" is next. ♪ ♪

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