>> we are dealing with a very dangerous situation down here in southern california with extreme fire weather, very dry conditions and very strong winds. >> i like 2025, i like trump being the president. i think we'll have deregulation and a very positive energy policy. >> i don't want to spike the football because the bottom line

is core inflation and inflation is 50% higher than the fed's target. >> everything that the progressive left tried to do that joe biden signed onto had basically been left in the rear-view mirror. >> these nominees that president trump nominated, they are the calgary. i think peele wee pete address some of the -- we'll see pete address some of the biggest challenges in america. >> our offense is fantastic. we have good hyper-growth and we're going to have under president trump, you're going to score a lot of goals. >> trump is ready for shock and awe on day one in the first hours of being in the oval office. ♪ ♪ stuart: i contested resist the comment on the congestion pricing in new york. congestion pricing going to affect, going to pay like $9 for a car in midtown manhattan.

look at that, wednesday, lunchtime almost. middle of new york city, there's nothing there. >> i thought you wanted people to come back to the office. stuart: right. lauren: maybe they're taking the train. i doubt it. stuart: that's an empty new york. it's 11:00 eastern time and dow, s&p, nasdaq. that's a rally. dow up 650 and nasdaq up nearly 400 points and big tech up all across the board this morning. we have nvidia, microsoft, apple, amazon, they're all up. 10 year treasury, yield is straight down. looking now at 4.66%. investors really like that. and now this, this program has been sharply critical of the biden presidency and now it's almost over. joe biden gives fair well address to the nation tonight and many breathe a sigh of relief and he's been doing his

best to bernards healthcare fear with trump's plans and banning offshore drilling and spending billions that we don't have. it would be good to have this presidency over and done, enough with the damage, but in my opinion, for me, it's sad to see him go like this. he's angry and pushed out by his own party and replaced by a candidate that lost. he's bitter and no one believes that the joe biden we see today would be possible for another four years and seeing it all fall apart and four years ago, he walked into the white house hoping to be the next fdr but then came af afghanistan and disastrous debate and striod to tough it out and age and family refused to admit he was in decline and reached the point that people didn't believe he was calling the shots. it's not easy watching an american president aging rapidly.

it's not pretty seeing him lose his train of thoughts, slur his words and look out with a vacant stare. there's no joy reporting joe biden's decline. he brought it on himself. he should have never run for a second term, but he couldn't resist the tempation to go after the man he loathes, donald trump. now he's walking away, his failed presidency is almost over. third hour of varney starts now. stuart: mollie hemingway with me this morning. i find is sad to see a american president walking away like this, do you? >> well, what's sad for america is what the presidency brought so many people. you have the average monthly spending up by more than a thousand dollars since he first took office. weakened posture and complete

eradication of a southern boarder and all his choices to make those policy decisions and the reason he has low approval ratings and going down in history as such a failed president is because of what he did. stuart: okay, i feel a little sad. nonetheless, i really co. he's a american president. trump's defense secretary pick, pete hegseth, really held his own during his confirmation hearing yesterday. hegseth promised to be a change agent. watch this. >> it is true and it's been acknowledged i don't have a similar b biography of defense secretaries of the last 30 years but president trump told he we repeatedly placed people atop the pentagon with the right credentials with retired generals or defense contractor executives and where has it gotten us? he believes, and i humbly agree, that it's time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm.

a change agent, someone with no vested interest in certain companies or specific programs or approved narratives. stuart: senator joni ernst came out saying she will vote for hegseth. looks like he's going to get in. is what what you're seeing? >> yeah, definitely seem what is you're hearing senators say is they expect him to come through. it shouldn't really be surprise that had republicans would vote to confirm the republican president's nominees. i think people should start looking at which democrats might also decide not to take the posture that they took in the first trump administration of just refusing to vote for a single solitary trump nominee. think a lot of americans are hungry for what pete hegseth talked about there. they clearly understand what we've been doing in recent deck said in the country has not been working to solve the problems that the country faces. not having the credentials of the previous group is not the same thing as being the best person for the job, and that's something pete hegseth has --

you know, also needs to show, but he certainly did a very good job with that yesterday in his confirmation hearing. stuart: the average age is 54 and that's the youngest group since george w. bush in 1989 and ten years younger than biden's administration. looks like trump is setting up the next generation of republican leereds; right? >> stuart, i think this is a really valuable point for people to think about. we rely started seeing it with his -- really started seeing this with his selection of jd vance this summer and people don't think that trump thinks he's nothing more than a narcissist who cares about himself. that selection of vance showed he believes in the make america great again movement and set it up well for the decades to come, and this is not just about him. similarly we're seeing that with those cabinet-level picks. these are younger people and different people, but they're hopefully going to be people who

can have the energy and the ideas to take on some of the really serious problems that are threatening the safety and the security of our republic. stuart: it's a real pivot in american politics. that's my point of view. >> absolutely. stuart: mollie hemingway, thank you for joining us. see you soon. >> thank you. stuart: back to the markets and when you've goa rally like this, love to go back to the markets. rally all around. 640 up on the dow, 400 up on the nasdaq. mark tepper with me this morning. i was going to ask you, why have stocks almost wiped out the trump bump? >> fortunately we're clawing back. stuart: say some of this is a trump bump? >> yeah, very possible. what you saw happen is inflation concerns moderated a bit and caused yields to come down and stocks are rallying and when it comes to part of the reason for this, the fade in the trump bump over the course of the last

30ish dayings or so, no one is real -- days or so, no one is talking about it but the fed duped inve investors and the fee in in september with the miranda warning bazooka rate cut of 50 basis points, that set expectations there were a lot more to come and turns out that wasn't true. the last one was a hawkish cut. second thing is biden the saboteur. to your point, your monologue you gave, he's going out, and he's trying to deliver worst case scenario to the trump administration. i mean, there was no reason so sanction russian oil for three years and 11 months. suddenly he sanctions russian oil because high gas prices are going to be president trump's problem. you have a lot of that happening, and that's part of the reason that the rally has cooled off a little bit. stuart: i have a quick question about apple. >> yeah. stuart: not innovating. you think it's dead money? put money into apple and kind of dead? >> not dead money. it's like a 6.5% waiting in the s&p and you have to own some.

we're underweight apple, we own but underweight. iphone is losing market share. they haven't come up with a new product or idea in well over a decade and trading at a multiple of 31. it's become a consumer staple and maybe over time that multiple comes down a bit but for the time being, they're printing $100 billion a year in cash. it's a good stock to own. i just believe in underweighting it a little bit. stuart: 100 billion in cash. >> not too shabby. stuart: all right, mark tepper. stay there. you're with me for the hour. the sec just filed a lawsuit against elon musk. they claim he fail toddies close ownership of twitter stock before buying the company. lauren, what's musk saying about this? lauren: he's slamming the sec as totally broken and we'll pull up the post. they spend their time on ex-play makerstive like this when there are so many actual crimes that go un-punished. and his lawyer tells me this is

an admission by the sec that they cannot bring an actual case because mr. musk has done nothing wrong and everyone see this is sham for what it is. okay, this all dates back to the series of events that transpired three years ago when elon musk eventually bought twitter in october of 2022 for $4 billion. he started building his stake in the company in march of that year and the sec says he wait to do long to disclose that and that cost investors $150 million. quoting quickly from the suit here "had mussing and his wealth manager disclosed his ownership as required, the stock price would likely have increased significantly". musk would have had to pay more. this is coming down to the final days of gary gensler sec era before he steps down but young see here, look, many corners of the biden administration have come after elon musk and his companies.

from justice department suing spacex for hiring practices to national highway traffic safety administration probing tesla to them looking into neurolink and how it treats animals. this story is about social media. thee years ago elon musk went into twitter headquarters remember with the kitchen sink and changed the game. stuart: he did. lauren: they're still mad about it. stuart: thanks, lauren. coming up, elon musk reportedly secured office space at the white house. how much access will he continue to have with trump? we'll have that story for you. house republicans unveiled a bill that would allow trump to negotiate the purchase of greenland. the people that live there have mixed feelings about that. >> i like a lot about trump and their opinion about trump. >> i hate it, and basically i don't know what his aiming at. stuart: our next guest says acquiring greenland is essential to the national security. tennessee congressman andy ogles will make his case, he's next.

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>> on the front really products going for them and going to take it as a opportunity. the upcoming president of the united states, the most powerful country in the world in many terms is giving us a hand in regards to what can we do here. reporter: it's been a constant conversation for residents here in nuuk and highs reigns leading aerodynamic rx to trump's words and -- high resolutions in trump's words for the purchase of greenland and mixed reaction about all the international attention we've seen here on the danish territory. >> i think it's kind of sad actually that we can only think of greenland in times of trump and usa just come and enjoy it. it's a beautiful country. >> you can't buy a country like this is people's country. the thing for me is greenland is getting a lot of recognition. reporter: the hope is that that

recognition might lead to more tourism, especially since greenland opened its international airport just a couple months ago. we've been exploring the capitol and just learning so much about it from the history and why all of these homes are painted the colors they are. that was back in the day you used to live in a colored home fend oglessen what you did for work -- depending on what you did for work and food here to get around and no roads to lead to other city and only can travel by boat or plane. in some areas snow mobile and north of the island by dog sled. steward. stuart: i'll try to remember that. okay. alex, thanks very much indeed for joining us. let's bring in congressman andy ogles. he's a republican from the state of tennessee. all right, congress mangioni, who do -- congressman, who do we buy greenland from and what is america prepared to pay? >> well, i guess, to be determined but it's a territory of denmark and it allows trump to begin the negotiations and whether it's a cash offer or oil

and gas or something of some combination thereof and the thing is the idea of guying greenland is not a gutfelled idea. it goes back over 100 year where is the united states has been interested in the territory and when you see increased activity by bad actors of russia and china in the arctic tucker 18, it's important for -- circle, it's important for us to insert our sovereignty and is send a message to china. this is our sand box and you're nicole not welcome and increased shipping in the arctic, it's important we put our flag down. keep in mind, you know, your reporter talked about lack of infrastructure, lack of tourism. if it becomes part of the united states, that will change. it'll be a huge opportunity because there's tremendous resources, not just to mention the beautiful country and people, but tremendous resources that can be used to enrich the people to enrich the united states and secure the future of the united states of america. stuart: now, it was you who introduced this bill allowing negotiations to buy greenland. did trump talk to you at all? did he prompt you to do this?

>> well, you know, obviously trump is his own man and made comments and we've looked into it and had dinner with the president on friday night and and this is a topic of conversation and this is president trump, art of the deal ask signals we are back. we're in business and we're going to negotiate from a position of strength so whether it's china, russia, or europe, we are back and the failed administration and failed administration under biden is he's leaving the white house he's trying to sabotage trump's second term. and we're going to fight back and we're going to make america great again. if greenland want it is, he'll make greenland great again too. stuart: hostage deal is imminent and done by eight hours august ration and hostage deal -- inauguration and hostage deal in gaza. think that's trump's doing? >> trump made is clear the

hostages need to be released before he's inaugurated and there'll be hell to pay. i agree. hamas is a terrorist organization and they rape women, children, and babies, systematically and they use them as human shields and they're a cancer to the world. israel has a right to defense i'll and we should be there along with israel for hamas. stuart: kamala harris elected president? >> of course not. they've done more to encourage terrorism, global terrorism by being weak. that's why you saw october 7. had trump been in office octobee happened because iran would have known better. hamas would have known better but they saw the opportunity and took it because they know biden is an empty vessel. stuart: congressman andy ogles, thank you for joining us this morning. see you later. >> thanks so much. stuart: elon musk will reportedly get his own office space at the white house.

lauren: musk physically close to the president giving him easy access in a place where it's kind of hard to come and go as you please. right now doge, which elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are running is operating out of the spacex headquarters in washington dc. so if this report is true, and elon musk goes near trump at the white house, what about the staffers and vivek ramaswamy? where do they go? stuart: i'm wondering where does elon musk go? i me, will he sit in an office five days a week? >> i highly doubt if because of the companies he owns a piece of and x, forgot that one. ktok, rumors about that too . i find it hard to believe but i'll tell you, the fact he'll have a touch down spot at the

white house, i think that's important because the recipe for success is you surround yourself with people brighter and smarter than you, and that's what leads to great success. i ink trump is doing a great job here. stuart: one thing i've not worked out or looked into are these doge employees. are they getting paid and who's paying them? lauren: they're hiring and about 50 and they're looking to double. i don't know who's paying them and what their salaries are. could be privately funded and vivek and elon themselves. could be us. they haven't disclosed them. >> seems like highly paid positions and super high iq people working 80 hour as week. lauren: you're not volunteering. >> not for 80 hour as week. lauren: elon musk set up shop in pennsylvania when he needed to barn storm the state to help candidate trump win. then he set up shop in mar-a-lago so he had access to the president elect helping to form what he's about to do in a couple of days, and now he's setting up shop in dc. stuart: richest man in the world did do what he likes, wherever

he likes and whenever he likes. lauren: buys happiness. stuart: look at the market, plenty of green. dow up 650 and nasdaq up better than 2%. coming up, president biden has just five days left in office but don't expect him to fade into the background. >> do you plan to speak out after leaving washington or follow the bush model where you're kind of out of sight, out of mind? >> impactful not going to be out of sight, out of mind. stuart: tonight, biden will deliver his final oval office astress and what legacy is he leaving in we'll have bill hemmer. he's here in studio and right behind me as a matter of fact creeping up on me. there we go. all right. hemmer is next. ♪

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opportunistic the next year, issuings are overblown relating to autonomous cars. stuart: united health group. you like them? >> i do. healthcare was one of the worst performs sectors last year and you'll see a huge rebound in healthcare performance this year and second best performs sector year-to-date and united health is one of the biggest healthcare providers out there and sold off after the assassination, good entry point still today and high upside from here. stuart: kind-over benign to some degree, up 2.9% over the past year. that's helping the stock market, no doubt. inflation soared more than 19% during president biden's term. brian brenberg with me. >> it did. stuart: take us through where prices are now. >> four years on bidenflation.

it's not a pretty one. biden versus trump over four years and 27.4% and three times inflation we had under trump and now take a look at energy prices. that number under trump was negative and why it hurt so much under biden. look at food, grocery store and exhibit a pain family were feeling 23.1% on food and of course shelter, if you want to buy a house and you want to rent, 24.1% increase under biden. >> whether you're at home on the road eating food whatever you did the last four years, you felt bidenflation and books are closed on that and i'll say this

is a problem trump will have to fix in his term. the long term effects of bidenflation will stick around for a little while. stuart: it will indeed. brian, thank you. now this, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, president biden delivers his farewell address to the nation and bill hemmer with me this morning. what legacy is he leaving behind? >> i guess history will determine that. i think he'll make two claims and one dealing with developments in the middle east and none would have happened in the middle east without israel on offense, and they tried to do it and there was resistance but netanyahu went forward and other thing he continues to claim is he created 16 million jobs. these were covid jobs and they came back and very few people call them and it'll make a claim like that tonight. >> logan paul --

stuart: sorry, logan and jake paul and caitlyn jenner and leo vaughn and amber rose at inauguration. can they expect some backlash? >> yes, they are. carrie underwood is getting it apparently on social media and getting creamed. the point i want to make to you is what a difference eight year cspan make. the scene in washington dc starting it weekend into monday will be remarkably different from what it was in 2017. it's a good thing for the country, that's why you've got 76 million people voting him back in office. stuart: lots of people will be there supporting trump and not these mammoth million women march against trump. >> that's exactly right. that was cancelled and tried to get a million in 2017. i think they hit 750,000, that's no small number. i was there, the streets were jammed in washington dc on that saturday. stuart: opposing trump. >> yes. stuart: it'll be different this time.

>> resistance will rise again and take a new form, we just don't know when and over what issue. stuart: we have sam altman, mark zuckerberg and other business leaders going to the inauguration instead of the world economic forum in data da. >> momma didn't raise no dummy.. these guys know where the bread is buttered and the future of their companies, and they're going to try and get as close as they can to the decision makers of washington dc. if i were running one of these companies, i'd do the same thing. smart move. stuart: never been to davs and probably never will. >> me either but this will be missent inauguration, and they are all awesome because they are a slice of american history and we'll be there covering it over the weekend. stuart: i've been covering inauguration since 1976. >> and your favorite moment? stuart: ronald reagan. >> '81 in stuart: yes, the moment he game the president and

iranians released the hostages after 440 days. you'll get a repeat of this in this week. >> we'll see. we'll see. stuart: i think. let's get to the view, shall we. this is just for you. joy behar called out carrie underwood for agreeing to perform at trump's inauguration. roll it. >> how do you love your country and support and normalize who was a convicted felon that wants to destroy the country in my opinion. i don't know how you love your country at the same time you normalize this convicted felon. stuart: bill, that's kind of insult to the 77 million people that voted for trump. >> of all people, village people coming out of them being retired or not? did they come out in costumes and they put out a statement and said we know this won't make some of you happy to hear. however, we believe music is to be performed without regard to

politics. the village people are making a comeback on the back of this inauguration. stuart: are they the ymca? >> precisely. that's a lot of money they made on that song. stuart: what dot democrats do is over trump at a time radford. they hated him and it was obvious and people didn't like the hatred. >> the reality is he made a decision to fight his own family members to run for this office yet again, and he pulled it off. >> you got it. stuart: bill hemmer, you're all right. i love the green arrows by the way. stuart: don't you. >> keep that going, please. stuart: see what i can do. coming up, oklahoma is suing to hold the biden administration accountable for four years of open boarders. they say the influx of migrant children unleashed chaos on their public school system. we'll get into that. the final biden border numbers have been released.

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stuart: it just won't go away, at least not now. dow up 570 now and nasdaq up 360 points. the rally at this point is holding. i want to get to the migrant crisis and administration allowing 1.5 million into the u.s.. just with the cbp1 cell phone app and in the humanitarian patrol program, they flew in ccubans, haitians, nicaraguans and venezuelans.

lieutenant chris olivaras joining us now. is trump going to stop that flying in on the app on day one? >> thank you, varney. great to be with you. tom homan mentioned they're going to end all those programs and sow those numbers and that's why the last four years, especially in the last year and during the political year and going for the sensorineural sense of alohaing american people and the number of border crossings were down between ports of entry and rightfully so and not taking into account the number of illegal and it was one way to deceive the american people as one way to take a victory lap by saying the numbers were down at the border but yet still releasing illegal immigrants into the country strategically by the programs and of course the chv program, they were releasing venezuelas

as well into the country and still are, we know several of those are associated with the notorious tren de aragua tda criminal gang that's in the country right now. that really has put the american people at risk, public safety risk, national security risk but it's at the hands of trying to deceive the american people saying that they were able to get the number of illegal border crossings down, which is completely false. stuart: tom homan wants to create a tip line for people to report suspected migrant criminals. lieutenant, ice is going to love that. now you can figure out where people are. they'll be tipped off to it. good move? >> absolutely. what better way than to get the community of the american people and public who eyes and ears of what's taking place in the community to sport suspicion activity and immigrants committing crimes to ice agents and those are being forced into labor trafficking or sex trafficking as well and migrants

that are being exploited by criminal gangs or other helping ice agents and authorities in the community and give ago sense to the person people to the public and some sense of responsibility that they have an ally with the federal government and they can report suspicious activity and the federal authority withs investigate. stuart: alejandro myoyardeni kasam sat down with -- mayorkas sat for an interview with npr saying the border is more secure now than ever. saying the southern boarder and building accessible lawful, and orderly pathways for individuals to seek relief under our laws is the model that should be sustained. lieutenant, i'd like to hear your response to that. >> you know, i would hate to, you know, know what their term of actual favor is because for them to actually say, you know,

for this current administration to follow their blueprint, i don't see how that's possible. the american people have spoke and if anybody wants to follow a blueprint it's in texas over the last four years and we've been doing that with the new administration but for this current at administration, they've set record number of illegal immigration, record number of unaccompanied children and record number of deaths and the fact you have more separation of families now because they completely halted the dna testing and now we're more unsecured now as a country. all the crime has taken place throughout the country and a slap in the face to those that have been victimized or exploited at hands of criminally illegal immigrants at the current administration. they're take ago victory lap, that's completely disingenuous to the american people. stuart: that's mildly, lieutenant. very mildly. disingenuous. thanks for being with us. always ha pleasure. appreciate it. thank as lot, sir. >> thank you. stuart: one red state suing the administration over the president's open border

policies. okay. are we talking oklahoma here? lauren: we are. oklahoma is suing administration for 470 million for forcing them to educate illegal immigrants in their public school system for over four years. >> underneath president biden is kamala harris, what we've seen is the overrun of our border. it's caused tremendous amount of pressure onto the public schools. here in oklahoma, we're seen one district with over 100 illegal immigrant as week coming into that district. that means bigger classroom sizes, means you've got to bring in more resources to educate these students that are very far behind trying to get them caught back up, and cost our taxpayers over $470 million. lauren: and cost the american students rightfully in the schools a better education because the current teacherrer haves to get someone that doesn't speak english up to speed. stuart: not good. mark, suppose we deport hundreds

of thousands of illegal migrants. that wouldn't have a particularly good effect on the economy, would it? >> no, it seems like a complicated challenge. on one hand there's less strain on public resources but on the other, whether it's agriculture, jobs, construction jobs, hospitality jobs, a lot of lower skilled, lower paid jobs, there's undocumented migrants working in those rolls so you end up with a labor shortage because with a lotted of americans don't want to work the jobs at that pay level. companies have to in order to entice americans to work, pay more and erodes company profits and long term impact of this is you end up with more automation. encourages companies to invest in automation. stuart: thanks, mark. show me the dow 30, please. there'll be a lot of green. question, we are. yes, we are. there's a few stocks in the red, mostly it's in the green. the dow is up 540 points and well above 43,000. up more than 1.25%. that's the state of the market.

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through layer upon layer of debris and they made a discovery of human remains and we talked with a spokes american about the didid i have cull task they're undertaking. difficult task they're undertaking. listen here. >> this is the disaster team in search and rescue and they do have training in wildlife fire fighting so we're utilizing them to the best of their abilities and their level of training. what's great is that everyone is speaking the same language and the objective. reporter: it belonged to elderly ten at that particular time

stuart: your mother lived in that house. what's the rebuilding process looking like for you now? >> >> it's unknown and the spire community was decimated and looking at prospect of years to get her back in her home and we're up in arms. it's complete chaos and confusion here, and we're trying to go day-by-day. stuart: are you getting any help from the authorities? >> there's really not been any help by state government, local government, national level. obviously working on -- with the insurance company to try and make a claim, but that's going to be a process with thousands of other people trying to dot same and at in point and at this point it's up to us to band together and make sure my mom is safe and start this rebuilng process.

stuart: do you feel a sense of despair? >> i pride myself in generally being a very positive person, but in this moment the overall feeling is that of helplessness, and i would say i haven't even had a opportunity nor has my mom to really let it sink in and really weigh in on the gravity because we haven't been allowed to see the site yet, and i just feel like an empty feeling and you're watching a bad movie and it's real life and it's like a bad dream we can't wake up from. stuart: thank you for coming on the show today. it's important for outrebounded veers to understand what's happened to so many thousands of people. you, sir, are all right. we hope to see you again soon. we wish you the best of luck, sir. >> thank you. stuart: back to the markets, plenty of green and dow up 500 and nasdaq up 300, here's the

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stuart: so how many tourists visit the eiffel tower year? the three of us are going to

play. start with lauren. >> 6 million? stuart: 6 million. any advance on 6 million? [laughter] >> let's go 5. stuart: i'm going with 7 million. the answer is, thank you very much, everyone, 7 million p. 75% of those visitors are foreigners. [laughter] it's the most visited monument that you have to pay for in the world. 30 300 million have come to see it since it opened in 1889. lauren: i don't remember pawing. stuart: neither do i, actually. i just looked at it. that's it for "varney & company." cheryl casone, she's going to pick it up. we've got a rally for you. cheryl, it's for you. cheryl: thank you so much, stuart, i appreciate it. we are going to kick off with breaking news that we're actually just getting in to our newsroom here at fox business. a source briefed on the gaza ceasefire negotiations telling fox news, quote, a gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal was reached physicalling