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for stuart varney and stu will be back on monday. getting to the markets on the second trading day of 2025. much like yesterday, we were in the green and couldn't hang on yesterday and can we today. dow up 250 points and thereabouts and s&p up three quarters and nasdaq leading the way up 1%. take ago look at big tech names if we can. same story as yesterday. we saw this too, nvidia, amazon, alphabet, microsoft all moving higher and nvidia up 3.5% and only one moving down on that group is apple, down a third of a percent. take a look at 10 year treasury yield, we have seen the yield start to move back up. we had some stronger than expected data on manufacturing, the yields up now two basis points and up 4.58%. could it be headed back to that 4.6 level, which of course creates head winds for the stock? we'll keep an eye on that. let's move on. if what we now know about those

attacks in new orleanss and las vegas, the half brother of the new other leans attacker said his brother was struggling to find himself. jajabbar was seen planting bombs on the street and they're worried about the potential for copy cat attacks. president biden and first lady jill will be just announced they'll be visiting new orleans on monday to morning with the family of the victims there. in las vegas, we are now told the man that allegedly exploded the cybertruck in front of trump tower shot himself in the head prior to the explosion. the man has no clear ties to any terror organizations the fbi said and there's no definitive link, so far, between the two attacks -- excuse me, right now. now this, hundreds of

anti-israel protesters took over time square calling for an intafada revolution. there'll be a procession for palestine in new orleans. ambassador to israel nominee mike huckabee joins me now. great to have you here, governor. how, in your opinion, will donald trump be able to crack down on anti-semitic and anti-american sentiment? >> i think he's going to bring a level of common sense and decency to something that's out of control. any semitism is irrational and makes no sense. why would people hate jews because they're jews? and the only explanation that makes any sense is that the people who hate jews hate jews because the jews represent god to them. if you believe god is chosen the

jewish people for their homeland or for whatever reason and dough don't like god for anything other than god, that's the logical cross-examination that you hate the people that represent god himself. this is insane. and these people protesting in new york. i don't even begin to get my arms around how sick it is to protest in favor of the folks that committed the atrocities of october the 7. ashley: absolutely. all right. next one for you, governor, speaker mike johnson calling out the fbi for not appearing to be prepared for the attack in new orleans. >> this frustrated zuckerberg that this is very reactionary when we've known for many months that an attack like this was possible and imminent. christopher wray testified to congress many months ago back in the springll the red lights were flashing and this was a

serious situation. ashley: this also comes, governor, as a new report shows the department of justice spent more than $100 million on dei over just the last four years. the obvious question: wouldn't that money have been better spent by the fbi on protecting us? >> that money would have been better spent burning it in the streets and giving warmth to those that are cold. there's disgust with the fbi for this very reason. $100 million all about diversity, equity and inclusion and about the only thing we've included is the kind of terrorist attacks that we've seen in new orleans and what's especially tragic, the fbi couldn't figure out. first they say it wasn't terrorism and then it was. first, there were accomplices and no, this was a lone wolf. this is an agency that's become tragically incompetent and it needs a house cleaning from top to bottom. i think president trump is going to do just that.

ashley: i think he will and the sooner the better. mike huckabee, i want to say congratulations on your nomination to be u.s. ambassadr to ziti rad israel and i pray fa swift nomination in the senate. >> thank you, ashley. i appreciate it and happy new year to you and god bless, and hope to see you soon. ashley: thank you very much. appreciate that very much. take a look at these markets if we can. we've gained momentum and nasdaq up 1% and hang onto it for the closing bell. bring in jonathan hoenig and great to have you and we're two days into the trading of 2025. do you have a prediction for how this is going to go this year? >> you have to look in your crystal ball, ashley. it a long year and january of

2000 versus april or may of 2000 and keep the powder dry and the market has been weak the first couple days of the year. first week actually mean as lot since 1928 when the markets down the first week and the year is only up about 44% of the time. we're a little behind the 8 ball and the large cap tech balls and some of them down 20% from the recent highs and there's an environment where there's large cap stocks still overvalued in the entire market i think begging for a bit of a respite if not an overall correction in the months to come. ashley: yeah, you're not the first to say that . exotic pick of the week and we love them. this week is ardmore shipping. why do you like them? >> down a bit today, ashley, but a lot of shippers, which are about as boring as it comes. quantum computing and ai and then shipping. seems pretty boring, but it's

got 8% yield and this is a small cap stock, ashley. couldn't be more out of favor. down about 50% from the recent high, and i think if large cap stocks, growth stocks take a breather, some of the small cap value names will shine. i don't own it yet but sniffing at it as well as a lot of other shippers that are under pressure in recent weeks. ashley: overall u you're bullish and there's a correction in the big megacap tech stocks. is that a good summation? >> that's a year to widen your net, commodities, small cap, value, international. large cap techs that have outperformed for so long and they've had their day ask trying to attract -- time to cast a wider net in 2025. that's what i'm doing at capitalist pig. ashley: diversification. it's a wonderful word. jonathan hoenig. thank you, and have a wonderful year. >> thank you, ashley. you too. ashley: vote for house speaker begins at 12:00 p.m. eastern.

less than an hour from now. aishah hasnie on capitol hill and does mike johnson have enough votes? reporter: we don't know yet, ashley. i'm waiting for speaker mike johnson to leave has office momently and walk past here onto the house floor as the 118th congress will adjourn and get ready for this speaker vote. we're expecting him to pass us here momentarily and i'll try to shout a question and ask him how he's feeling. the math is not very good for him right now. right now there's at least one republican no vote. that is thomas massey, but fox is also told there could be 12 up to 27 other republicans that could vote for someone else. again could because they called all change their minds when they get on the house floor and we won't know till the vet begins at noon and we're waiting for that. we're waiting to see the house

floor adjourn the 118th congress. what we'll see first is they'll take a quorum call to assess who is here to vote and expecting everyone to be here today and nominating speeches for speaker and if everyone shows up, ashley, the magic number is 218 to win. now, johnson has been meeting with some of these holdouts in the last couple of days. he's been talking about everything from cutting the deficit to figuring out a better way for the house to function and work. congresswoman lauren bovert said an interesting idea for johnson. johnson could secure this in the first round if he commits to making congressman chip roy in charge of the rules committee and johnson poured cold water on that suggestion this morning. watch. >> i don't think [inaudible] not doing anything in exchange for a vote other than making it work

as effectively and efficiently as possible. reporter: good news for johnson going into the vote is nobody sells vying for the speakership and president elect trump has endorsed him and wished him good luck on truth social this morning. one more thing to keep in mind, democrats will not be helping johnson out today so he cannot rely on any votes from across the aisle. he needs to get his conference together. he's got that very slim majority. ashley. ashley: woe will find out. aishah, thank you very much. go back to pouncing on speaker johnson. coming up, even the left leaning media is now admitting that biden's border policies were a failure. >> border was not biden's finest moment frankly. some of it was some things biden said and some ways they put a moratorium on deportations but in fact we got up to almost 300,000 a month. ashley: well, what took them so long to finally come around?

makes you boggled -- your mind boggles. we'll take that on. also, the fb icon firming the new orleans terror attack was inspired by isis. we now know bomb making materials found inside his home and how can we root out these home grown terrorists here in america? i'm going to ask israeli special operations veteran aaron cohen next. what will you do when the power goes out? power outages can be unpredictable and inconvenient, but with a generac home standby generator, your life goes on uninterrupted. because when your generac detects a power outage, it automatically powers up, giving your family the security and peace of mind they deserve. we don't have to worry about whether we lose power or not. if the utility company does not come through, our generac does. after the hurricane happened, we just want to be prepared for anything.

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visit xfinity.com/rewards. ashley: the younger brother of the new orleans' terror suspect speaking out to fox news and revealing what he blames for the deadly attack. brook taylor joins me this morning from houston and, brooke, you spoke to the brother. what did he tell you?

reporter: i did, ashley. we spoke at his childhood home and described his brother to me as lost and trying to find himself and this "path to self-discovery and i want to show you this picture he shared with us and the jabbar family years ago when the boys were kids. his brother, that we spoke to, abdur jabbar, an adult and said he grew up in beaumont, texas and attended central high school and joining the army was a way to "find something to set him straight, ground him and maybe find a viable career path. after his divorce, he told us that jabbar was looking for some type of guidance in his life. he didn't want to show his face because of safety reasons, but said he and his brothers were raised muslim and ultimately he blames radicalization for this attack. >> maybe around in his 20s, his late 20s or early 20s, i think

he kind of took a step away from religion and doing his own thing, you know, partying and whatnot. as a college student and things like that, and then i think after his most recent divorce he decided to take a step back and, you know, maybe do some self-discovery. reporter: fox digital got pictures from inside of the home where he was living here in houston. sources now tell us they found bomb making materials inside, but they wouldn't elaborate on what those materials are. the fbi said jabbar posted a series of videos on facebook saying he was inspired by isis and then going to target his own family and friends and wouldn't generate the same headlines and i asked z his brother what he thought hearing that? >> it's chilling.

shocking, heart breaking hon honestly. reporter: investigators now combing through social media, his cell phones and also his laptops trying to understand the path from army vet to now isis supporter. ashley. ashley: brooke taylor in houston this morning. thank you very much. joining me is israeli special ops veteran aaron cohen. aaron, great to have you here. i guess my question to you is how can we better identify home grown terrorists and isis cells in the united states? >> ashley, that's a great question. how we look at it in the counter terrorism world and first identify why we're focusing on the investigation and not focusing on why we couldn't stop this attack and let me tell you where it starts, the fbi has a rotten dei infestation and they've prioritized over the last four years.

100 million spent on prioritizing dei, which is distracting from their core mission stopping terrorists, number one. major intelligence gap and lack of proactive measures have allowed these radicalized idiots to kill over 15 people in new orleans on bourbon street and slip through the cracks. here's where i'm at with both cases, which exhibited warning signs and online warning signs that were missed and never acted upon. so here's what we need, ashley, we need a dedicated domestic counter terrorism law enforcement agency, the fbi has lost its way, and we don't have time to fix it, we need to build it from the ground up because it's so rotten at the core. not saying all fbi agents are bad. here's how we do it, the agency focuses purely on detecting, disrupting and preventing domestic terrorism threats using advanced behavioral analysis,

tracks radicalization through that ai and tracks all those pattern realtime as social media, encrypted platforms and financial trends action and that's how we do it in israel and that's how we prevented over a thousand terror attacks in the last year. we can't get to all of them, but we need to look at this thing from the ground up and completely rebuild it because it's so broken, ashley, that it's not fixable. that's where i'm at, and i hope donald trump in 17, 18 days and hope he's listening to me because it's time to rebuild this thing, and that's how you stop the next attack. ashley: literally 30 seconds, aaron. how do you root all the radicals because we have such an open society? it's not that easy. >> we got to get it through congress and got to build it up to 15,000 agents and this new counter terrorism agency and pass it through. you've got to put in leadership, ashley, that aren't these

bureaucratic idiots and lawyers who have run the federal agencies into the ground, these idiots and got to put in counter terror experts and intelligence veterans that guys that have worn the badge and the gun who come from the counter terror world and then put in that strategic intelligence division and start going to work and building up to 14, 15,000 agents large and going to take four years but we'll get good at it. ashley: aaron cohen bring ago strong message this morning. we appreciate it, aaron. thank you very much for your expertise. >> thanks issue ash. ashley: now this, fall of assad regime in syria sparking concerns about a possible isis resurgence. lauren, is anything being done to stop that from happening? lauren: w wall street journal sd the u.s. stepped up attacks in areas where the air space was previously controlled by assad's government and precision strikes

and they want to hinder isis's ability to reconstitute in what has become a power vacuum. the u.s. has about 2,000 troops in syria about 2500 in iraq. do they stay there? u.s.-backed kurds are questioning their ability to continue to contain isis, especially the 45,000 syrians that the kurds are guarding in the country's jails with suspected ties to terrorism. and then seeing the new year's attack, that's a reminder that isis can inspire people even though it has been weakened and no longer rules a territory. it's still out there and the u.s. wants to prevent them from reconstituting. ashley: threat is very much alive. thank you, lauren, very much. back to the markets now. quickly we're keeping an eye on the treasury yields today. let's take a look at 10-year. up 1.5 basis points and could it make another run at 4.6%?

this would be a head wind for equities and take another look at the two year yield to see where that is headed and again, that too is higher by nearly two basis points up 4.2% and we're keeping a close eye on the treasuries today. all right, coming up, democrat leader chuck schumer just announced assignments for key committees in the senate. he says they're meant to counter trump's plans. we'll tell you how. and the man that carried out that deadly new year's attack in new orleans posted videos online pledging allegiance to isis. why wasn't he immediately investigated by local or federal officials? i'm going to ask lieutenant chris olivarez from the texas public safety commission next. ♪

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ashley: almost two hours into today's session is showing gains on dow, s&p and nasdaq and up 226 points on the dow. lauren, you're looking at movers and looking at auto makers. tell me about ford. lauren: ford and gm each reported their best annual sales in the u.s. for 2024. best sales since 2019 meaning

those pandemic challenges that worked through the supply chain are over for ford. 2.08 million vehicles sold last year, hybrids a big part of that and rose by 26%. gm, 2.7 million vehicles sold last year. evs, which include hybrids, more than doubled but it was also the best year ever for the gmc sierra and trucks like that. both o stocks up a bit. then chew write and upgrading research of chewy to a buy and price target to 42 and active customers will continue to spend to keep fido healthy and use auto ship. when you have something on autoship, that's recurring revenue for the company. why are you laughing, ashley? ashley: because i know so many people use chewy and the dogs literally know it and wait at the door and open the box. it's a big production. they get a new chewy toy and it's a whole big thing. they're very good at marketing.

lauren: stock's up 35% now. ashley: -- 5% now. ashley: yeah, very good, lauren. thank you. new orleans terror suspect walking near bourbon street an hour before the attack. quite chilling because you know what happens next. former homicide detect and i have fox news contributor ted williams joining us this morning. ted, great to have you here. does the surveillance give investigators any any clues about the case? >> at this stage, the investigation is on going and being conducted by the fbi and they've not held a press conference since yesterday morning, where they announced this guy was in fact a terrorist and that he was a lone wolf. we haven't gotten any other further indications. ashley: any suggestion of a motive other than his alleges to isis, which i guess could be it.

anything in particular? >> nothing in particular, but i got to tell you, you've done some excellent -- you had some excellent people on before me and i can tell you, i believe that we have to be proactive in this. we've got to take the fight oasis and cannot stand by and let them kill americans the way this is happening in this case. ashley: you know, he had ieds with him, ted. we've seen him planting them. how lucky or fortunate given what he was trying to do that these devices were not trig triggered. >> we're very fortunate these ieds were not triggered. lives could have been lost under the circumstances, but the fact about it is i'm on the ground here in new orleans, and i can tell you the people of new orleans are resilient, they're alive and they're saying something in america here. we are not going to let the

terrorists scare us from going about our business and our lives. that is certainly something that is clear here on the ground, ashley. ashley: it's probably one of the city in the country i would believe now. >> you are absolutely right. you had this sugar bowl here last night, and you had law enforcement all over the place. in about another month here, you'll have the super bowl and you'll have another law enforcement all over the place. ashley: good to hear. ted williams, thank you so much as always for keeping us up to speed from the ground in outrebounded orleanss, thank you, sir. lieutenant chris olavarez joining me now. the suspect posted videos to facebook pledging allegiance to isis. how was he not flagged immediately? shouldn't that immediately send

out warning bells? how did that not happen? >> well, arkly, that should be the normal rhetoric and there should be a lookout for this type of individual, especially when making threats and back to your previous guest, mr. cohen, talking about having a more focused, more specialized counter terrorism unit that would combine local, state, county and federal law enforcement working together to communicate with each other to be proactive and to try and prevent some of these horrific events and dedicate those that are trying to stop potential terrorist attacks on the homeland again. this type of messaging on social media, that should a been a red flag right there for anybody, for law enforcement across the country to be on alert for this

particular dick emberd but again, these sleeper cells, i don't know when they'll commit an attack and using rental vehicle and committing this mass murder and shows how the sleeper cells are dangerous and how they are a threat to public safety and national security. ashley: no doubt. app msnbc analyst finally admitting biden's border failed. >> it was not his finest moment and seeing what happened here and trump is not wrong talking about border crossings were quite low and running about 74,000 a month when he left office and they in fact did shoot up some of it was some things that biden said and some ways they put a moratorium on

deportations but in fact we did get up here almost to 300,000 a month. ashley: it was a crisis, wasn't it, lieutenant? >> at historic levels and we've never experienced the amount of people coming across that border illegally. the fact there's a record number of suspected terrorists caught at the border and a number of got aways, known got aways, unaccompanied children and there's over 10 million people coming across illegally and that in et cetera is unprecedented and we've never experienced a crisis at the border at that magnitude. you don't need special graphs or charts to show that . on fox and other net works, we're showing the border crisis from day one, even to date, and you'll see all the thousands of people coming across that bo

border. the criming taking place and we're at a vulnerable spot because of the unsecured boarder and this administration failed toecure the board tore protect the american people and that in itself is starting to come to light, which again as you mentioned this has been taking place for the last four years and it's no secret but as tohy some of the media and others are trying to hide what's happening, that's a great question and more uncovered in the coming years of the administration. ashley: absolutely. lieutenant olivarez. thank you for taking time out why your schedule to talk to us. we very much appreciate it. >> thanks, ashley. ashley: okay, thank you. coming up, national security adviser jake sullivan offered to resign after the botched

withdraw from afghanistan. should he have done that? we'll take it on. donald trump's incoming national security adviser mike walz said getting trump's -- mike waltz said getting him confirmed quickly is of vital safety. >> we need kash patel and pete hegseth and the narrative that we project on day one will be just as important and that's having our people in place. ashley: we will bring you the full story next. your best defense against erosion and cavities is strong enamel. nothing beats it. i recommend pronamel active shield

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bit more with momentum. now this, new york senator chuck schumer just announcing committee assignments for the next legislative session. it's all part of the democrat's plan to try and counter donald trump. so, lauren, who got what jobs? lauren: it's a big list but the top democrats on their committees for this new congress. senator amy klobuchar the ranking member of agriculture. sheldon whitehouse for environment and public works. he's been a loud critic of the oil companies and he's currently the budget many it tee chairman so senator jeff merkly filling his pester there and elizabeth warren on banking and the top dem and needs to find a way to work with republicans. if i'm being optimistic, ashley, the low hanging fruit could be affordable housing, but we all know she's anti-crypto and she constantly berates the big banks. finally senator martin heinrich of new mexico home to some of

the most active parts of the perm yen basis for energy and senator jeann, shahee networks serving on the foreign relations committee. ashley: i wonder who elizabeth warren banks with and if her money is under the mattress. lauren: and she's got a lot of it. the cryptocompany that backed the race to have play moreno defeat brown and now brown is out of banking but warren is worse. ashley: yes, indeed. lauren, thank you very much. the new orleans terror attack renewing calls for getting donald trump's cabinet picks confirmed as soon as possible. matt flynn joins us from west palm beach this morning. what's the incoming nags gnat security adviser -- national security adviser mike waltz saying all about this? reporter: mr. walt is pushing for all of -- mr. waltz is

pushing for all of trump's nominees to be confirmed and points to the new year's day attacks and finds is a coincidence both trucks rented on the same app and reminds people of the afghan stopped from making election day attacks and here in west palm, i spoke to president elect trump at new year's eve party at mar-a-lago and asked him how confident he was about his nominees and here's his response. >> i think we have great nominees and they'll do very well. most of them are thought of very highly and i think we'll do very well. reporter: and the first scheduled nomination hearing for trump's nominees is next tuesday, january 14th. pete hegseth for secretary of defense. hegseth's hearing is on the books but between now and next tuesday, any number of additional hearings could be added to the calendar, but before that can happen, congress has to select its next speaker of the house, which could potentially be completed today. once a nominee like hegseth make it is before a senate committee,

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ashley: president biden emphasized that the fbi terrorist claims the new orleans' terrorist was working alone. >> fbi briefing that as of now, no information that anyone else is involved in the attack. they've establish that had the attacker was the same person who planted accident plosives in the ice coolers and two nearby locations in the french quarter. we're continuing to investigate whether or not there's an connection between the new orleans attack and explosion in las vegas. as of now, as of now, they've been briefed they've not found any evidence of such a connection thus far. i've directed them to keep

looking. ashley: keep looking. kyron incoming border czar tom homan disagrees and he's convinced there's a connection between the two events. what say you? a coincidence or is there a connection what, do you think? >> i think there's irresponsibility in having the president in the oval office basically state that there's no connection this quickly. going several layer this is deep, whether they coordinated or not these two individuals and invoked terror on americans, there's a problem about radicalization born of isis that we need to talk about. the president isn't going deeper into what's happened here. this takes us back to the october 7 attack and the biden administration public statement

was that there was no iranian involvement in hamas and invading israel and slaughtering people. what we now know is that iran has its fingertips and its hand on the gear with hamas, hezbollah and houthis and they don't move without iran. this world view that the admin vagues has taken leads the american public in the wrong direction in terms of the facts so i agree with the emerging border czar, but i'm really concerned alaska the administration's understanding or lack thereof of the ongoing war on terror. they pulled out of afghanistan and that was 2021. they weren't prepared for the loss arkansas loss of 13 servicemen and the global terror wasn't over and got going to

bring it into it and the taliban was ready to take over again. this is a broader story they need to talk with us about. ashley: yes, and you mentioned afghanistan. according to the washington post, national security adviser jake sullivan reportedly offered to resign after that botched withdraw. do you think he should have resigned? >> i don't. i have a lot of sympathy for jake sullivan and we held a same job and he's a brilliant thinker and one that's been interested in big ideas, but i understand the sentiment of offering his resignation because there was a -- this was an example of being devoid of ideas. he took the position that we can't be in the war for forevero

we have to leave. the idea of leave or be there forever was wrong thinking. i don't believe the administration has learned a lot since then. that's why you have president biden declaring there's no connection between the two incidents in different states, and not emphasizing the problem of radical islam, of isis continuing to radicalize people, and the propaganda they put forth all over the world. where's that discussion coming from the president and the white house? ashley: we'll trust worthy to leave it -- we'll have to leave it there. terrific stuff. thank you for joining us today on this friday. >> thank you. ashley: much appreciated. thank you. time now for the friday trivia question. it's interesting one. which country celebrates its new year on april 14th. madagascar, nepal, philippines

or sri lanka? get your thinking caps on. we'll have the answer when we get back. ♪ ..

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celebrates its new year april 14th. take your pick. madison: a special day for me my birthday, my answer is nepal. ashley: i don't know the answer but the answer is we are both right. happy birthday to you, well done. you have a great weekend. have a great birthday. john kirby was asked about the new orleans at half and las vegas explosion and warned local officials about copycat traders and reiterated the inauguration remains a high priority and in moments of the house will open, donald trump has made a few calls, a few undecided republicans but remains positive for mike johnson. we are out of time on "varney and company". edward lawrence, it is all yours in a busy hour