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equipment. china,, quite simply, can't have that level of control over the canal. >> we're going the go into a period of time where trade really does slow down, and then we will see system retaliationment. >> drones are a growing part of policing. whenever you can take a human out of these high-stress environments and put a row9 with the or a drone in them, we think ec we can keep people safer. >> what is donald trumng for? he's fighting for america. he's fighting for the united states. he's fighting for equality, essentially. ♪ ♪ stuart: it just so happens that i was singing this song during one of the commercial breaks yesterday, so the producers picked up on it, and if now across the universe by the beatles, pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind. remember that one, jonathan? [inaudible conversations] >> go ahead, don't be shy is. stuart: you just put me on the spot there, lad.

do you want to stay on this program or not? [laughter] good morning, everyone. it's 11:00 eastern time, ands the friday, january the 31st. still plenty of green, especially for the nasdaq. it's up 1.4%. big tech's doing pretty well. show me big tech, please, up across the board. amazon, alphabet, nvidia, apple and microsoft on the upwith side. the yield on the 10-year treasury down a little, you're looking at about 4.5 % as we speak. and now this. president trump has reversed justin about every policy hangover from president biden, now it's foreign policy that's going to change and i mean bigtime. tomorrow secretary of state marco rubio travels to panama. it's his first foreign trip. it sends a signal. it's a proactive visit. trump wants to take back control of the panama canal, and rubio is going there to press the point. america's taking action to counter china's influence. rubio's not just sitting back waiting for manager to happen.

after panama he goes to el salvador, got a mall la and the dominican public -- guatemala. back away from the chinese, and we'll make you prosperous. remember when vice president harris went down there to check out the root causes of mass migration? she was laughed at. nobody if is laughing at a trump and rubio. also a tomorrow, tariffs on mexico and canada, well, that's a gutsy, proactive move. trump doesn't line our huge raid deficits with our neighbors. but now canada's prime minister, justin trudeau, he's punching back. he says canada's response will be forceful, and they won't relent until tariffs are removed. there's a confrontation brewing, you can tell. next week israel's netanyahu arrives at the white house. yes, gaza, hamas, hezbollah, they'll all a come up, but so will iran. we're no longer negotiating with the mullahs. that's not our foreign policy style these days. very quietly, trump agreed to

supply israel with 2,000-pound if bombs. are they bunker busters for iran's nukes many that would be a proif active foreign policy, all right. the bottom line here is that trump and rubio have credibility. the world knows that that they will do what they say they will do. putin and xi jinping, take note. third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ stuart: all right, officials in california announced an increase in water supplies to more than 27 million residents. steve hilton in fresno, california, for us this morning. he's speaking to a group of farmers there. they seem fired up about this. are they going to get more water, steve? >> so, stuart, i'm right here in fresno in the that heart of the central valley. this is the greatest agricultural area in the world, and it is the being crushed, deliberately crushed by democrat

policies. these farmers behind me -- by the way, i think they're stuart varney fans here in fresno. [laughter] these guys and these families are producing our food. they have just been told that they're going to get 20% of the water allocation that they need. 20%, which is an increase. that means they're not getting 80%. what does that mean? imagine, you think about it in terms. steel industry and you'ring making cars and looking at the steel industry and the car manufacturer is told you're going to have 20% of what you need. that's what's happening here. they need 100% of the water, and we could have it if we only had the right policies where you capture the water and you store it and you get it to where it's needed. instead of that, this great american industry -- by the way, that grows the healthy food that we want to eat, the food that's going to make america healthy again, fruit and nuts and produce, all the a good stuff is

grown here in california, but the democrat policies of climate extremisming are shutting it down. literally fields going fallow because they don't give these farmers the water they need to grow our food. stuart: i take it that the farmers are very much pro-trump at this point. and are prepared to vote republican in a statewide election. that's going to happen? >> it is the massively happening already. you saw this county flip from blue to red in the elections just now. just as you're seeing right across california, people responding to the idea that we just have common sense policies that support our industries instead of crushing them. and so i think you're going to see a revolution in california, and the thing that we've got to understand about this industry is thats the dependent on these decisions. that's why when president trump announced in that executive order that he's going to increase supplies through his federal system, i made a video about it this week, i called it the trump pump. when people talk about president trump doesn't know what he's

talking about with the giant spigot, there is a giant pig got that brings -- spig got that brings water into the central valley, and trump just said he's going to send more water. the last time he did that, gavin newsom and the democrats retaliated by sending less water in their state system in order to protect a fish that basically died out anyway. the whole thing is a total joke. finish president trump gets it. he understands the details, and he is there for our farmers just like i'm there for our farmers, and i think we need to support this industry instead of deliberately crushing it. that's why you're going to see this revolution in california. it's not just for agriculture. all our businesses are being -- by these ridiculous, extremist ideological policies. stuart: steve, please, pass along our very best wishes to the farmers of california. >> thank you, stuart. [applause] great to be with you. stuart: sure thing. thanks, everybody. let's get back to the markets. i'm looking in particular at the

nasdaq composite, 280 points hire. of it's a very solid gain again. jonathan hoenig with us in new york this friday morning. president trump says the tariffs on mexico and canada will gun tomorrow. trudeau says, prime minister trudeau says, look, he's going to respond forcefully the that. how will the markets react, do you think, if we've got a trade war on our hands? >> stuart, i don't know. i don't know and no one knows. i mean, look, the famous economist always talked about what is seen in economics and what is unseen. so, you know, the tax foundation really some estimates, they actually think tariffs will cost about 350,000 jobs and about a quarter percent to u.s. gdp, but, stuart, no one really knows because the retaliation hasn't yet fallen in line. there's so much uncertainty about a these tariffs. we know they're going to cost a lot of money, what the effect down the line is basically impossible -- stuart: basically, wait and see on this one. >> foreign stocks year the date are outpacing the u.s., even colombia, which president trump got into a tariff skirmish with

just a few weeks ago a, colombia's stock market is up 15% since that skirmish, so to there might be some irony in foreign stop -- stocks outa pacing the u.s. stuart: we wait for your exotic pick of the week, and you've come up with pplt, a platinum eff. -- etf. why platinum? >> gold quietly hit a new all-time high this morning, and under the theory that a rising tide lifts all boats, it's pulling platinum up. it's still trading about half the price it traded in 2008, and if it returns to its inflation-adjusted price, pplt could go up more than 200. you always a want to do your own due diligence, but i think now is the time for hard assets. stuart: all right, platinum, it's. jonathan hoenig, thanks for being here. >> thank you. stuart: president trump will meet with the nvidia ceo, jensen huang, at the white house today. this could be a big deal.

edward lawrence is there. do you have more on this, please, edward? >> reporter: yeah. it'll be the first meeting from the second presidency term with yen seven wang, the ceo of nvidia. -- jensen huang. they're going to talk about artificial intelligence and how to to grow that chip-making industry forward, specifically related to manufacturing in the u.s. and also what the chip maker needs to grow in terms of power needs to grow this because nvidia has a number of data centers they're trying to build. there might be also some conversation about if the chinese are able to get nvidia chips in order to create deepseek, getting around the sanctions. the fbi reportedly opened an investigation to see if deepseek has used intermediaries in singapore to buy nvidia chips. president trump would like to see the united states the leader in artificial intelligence as well as this advanced chip making, again, trying to figure out wheys those -- ways those chips don't get to the chinese, at least the most powerful chips to be used against us. stu the?

seward. stuart: edward, thank you very much, indeed. the violent venezuelan gang tren de aragua has been a target of i.c.e.'s deportation raids. now trump is seeking a deal to send arrested members of that group the jails in el salvador. interesting. trump has also ordered guantanamo bay to prepare the host 30,000 illegal criminal migrants. defense secretary pete pete hegseth says it's the perfect place. >> guantanamo bay is a perfect transit point to temporarily house the worst of the worst million we move them back to their home countries. stuart: jonathan fahey will cover it all for us. jonathan is next. ♪ your best defense against erosion and cavities is strong enamel. nothing beats it. i recommend pronamel active shield because it actively shields the enamel to defend against erosion and cavities. i think that this product is a game changer

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stuart: oh, this is just coming to us, richard a grenell, president trump's enslow for special missions, he's -- envoy, he's traveling to venezuela today. last week trump said his administration would likely stop buying oil from venezuela. it sounds like another confrontation is brewing. we'll see. last night fox news went on an exclusive nighttime helicopter ride over the el paso border sector. brooke taylor was on that helicopter ride. tell us, brooke, what kind of technology are they using? >> reporter: well, stuart, we saw so many groups of migrants cross over illegally, they even cut a hole in the border wall, many of them, to get through. but something that el paso sector right now, this is the sector where there's the highest number of gotaways. so this means illegal migrants who are trying to evade capture. the night before our ride-along on wednesday, border agents told us they had zero gotaways, that

is the first time in years. [background sounds] >> we've got bodies north, going into the robs. >> reporter: fox news gets an exclusive look in the skies at what agents are up against, migrant after migrant. >> trying to run. >> reporter: -- all trying to evade border patrol agents. >> that guy's still messing with the fence. >> reporter: the two migrant groups just made a hole in the border wall. it's dark out, so what they don't realize is we're 5 miles away and and still watch their every move. the helicopter, armed with a high-tech camera equipped for night vision, a so the ware d -- software system makes it easy for the agencys to pinpoint -- agents to pinpoint where the migrants are. >> we just had three come through a breach right here. you can see their buddies on the south i'd. -- side. >> reporter: the agents

communicate and guide border poll agents. >> keep going. >> reporter: our camera crew on the ground captured agents apprehend a 19-year-old from if mexico and another man from guatemala. >> this is going to to be an all-night game. this is a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week profession. >> reporter: and agents told us this was the first week that they saw border patrol vehicles and national guard vehicles stationed in these crucial spots. before this new administration, they said they were spread so thinker they just didn't have the -- thin, they just didn't have the manpower to do that, stuart. stuart: brooke, thank you very much. and i now this, the pentagon plans to send a second wave of troops to the southern border as soon as next week. they'll help with deportation flights for the more than 5,000 illegal migrants already in custody. 5,000 in custody in the el paso and san diego sectors. jonathan fahey, former acting i.c.e. director, joins me now.

jonathan, are we developing a backlog of people that we can't get out and they're just being stacked up? >> i wouldn't say there's a back with log that we can't get out, but it is, it is -- shows how effective they've been at detaining people and getting people removed. think this administration if is moving very quickly to move people out, and they're really just getting things into place, in align. , and they're arresting over a thousand people a day. we're going to get to the point where the numbers going out are about the same as the numbers that are being arrested, so i don't see that much of a backlog. but i think that is something they have to do, keep people moving out not only being arrested, detained and deported. it is interesting what your reporter hit that just shows, i think, a day ago hay had zero gotaways when just, you know, a few years ago or a couple years ago they could have 2-3,000 per day. it just shows how effective donald trump has been in a week and a half, and the deterrence is really there. stuart: to move these people

back to their home countries, america has to show and display some real muscle. we've got to play hardball on this because they don't want to take them. we've got to play hard aball. are we going to do it? >> yes, we are. we saw it just last week with kilometer a ya. i thinkable the took about concern colombia. i think it took them two or three hours to change course. this is two categories, the countries that won't cooperate and the ones that cooperate and the ones that wish they did because it's going to be so painful for these countries that don't cooperate in terms of sanctions and other things that the heir going to wish they had gotten in line at the very beginning. yeah, they're going to play hardball, but this is a major reset from the biden administration which was just exuding weakness at every turn. donald trump has set on the stage it's not going to pay for people to buck these issues economically and otherwise. stuart: president trump's preparing to send some 30,000

migrants to gitmo, guantanamo bay. have you seen -- have you met anybody who thinks sending the migrants to gitmo is a bad idea? because i haven't. >> if i've met them, they haven't expressed that to me. i think it's a great idea. and my understanding is we only have about a dozen or so terrorists still there, so there is a facility that is safe, secure, that can hold them until they are deported. it does seem like a terrific idea because it goes with government efficiency that's already built and also will yet people out, and these -- get people out. these people should not be on the streets of the united states like they were under the last administration, gang members, people convicted of serious crime, violent crimes. they should be put somewhere until they can be removedded, and gitmo seems like a terrific place, and i'm sure they're going to be looking at other place as well. stuart: got it. jonathan, thanks for joining us this morning right in the middle of a very important day. now this, president biden reportedly planning to deabort

violent venezuelan gang members the jails in el salvador. interesting. good morning, ashley. how would this work? if. >> yeah, good morning, stu. that's a good question. secretary of state marco rubio hoping to reach that kind of agreement when he visits central america in the coming days. president trump wants to are reestablish the safe third country type of asylum deals that he introduced in his first term. what it does, it requires people from neighboring countries to seek asylum in those countries first before applying to the united states. the administration, especially as you mentioned, targeting gang members from venezuela a and america s-13 from el salvador. but proving a migrant's link to a gang could be difficult. but trump hopes to work with el salvador especially which has been able to slash crime by building a giant prison complex and and rounding up tens of thousands of suspected criminals under a state of emergency. he likes that idea, stu.

stuart: ashley, thank you. officials in virginia say d.c.'s air space is just too crowded. here we go. >> so i don't know exactly how the staffing occurred in that particular air traffic control tower, and it sounds like there was a shortage, and the investigation -- stuart: so what's going to be done about it? that's next. ♪ ♪

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more than $4 million in sales than previously thought, and that's helpful because the rheumatoid arthritis drug has been reporting lower sales. stuart: big moves for both and bug company, both of them. lauren, thank you very much. crews searching for more aircraft components after the deadly mid-air collision in d.c. now we're learning9 that the air ask control tower was understaffed at the time of the crash. grady trimble at reagan national for us. how many people were working in the control tower at the time, grady? >> reporter: well, stuart, one according to a preliminary faa report which reportedly says there was one air traffic controller handling communications with both planes and helicopters when, typically, those jobs are handled by two separate people. so that's something that the ntsb is looking into as part of its investigation, though the agency does tell us it is typical for air a traffic control staffing levels to fluctuate throughout the day

depending on factors like weather and the time of day. overnight we know that the ntsb recovered two parts from the if american plane that will be critical the their investigation and sort of putting together a timeline of the moments leading up to the crash. that would be the flight day recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. the central question here though still, stu, remains, and that is why was the american flight which was seconds from landing and that that black hawk helicopter performing routine training, why were those two aircraft flying at the same altitude in the same exact place? transportation the secretary sean duffy says both aircraft were on standard flight paths, but there are reports that the helicopter may have been if flying too high. duffy says he met with some of the families with who lost loved ones in the crash yesterday. ntsb member todd inman tells me he did as well, and he plans to do so again today. >> we've got to remember, 67

people host their lives. so last night we started meeting with the families. they have a lot of questions, a lot of concerns. we have hundreds of people in this investigation, but the most important thing right now is to obtain and if preserve any perishable ed so when we come off scene, we can start the anallyization mode. >> reporter: >> reporter: the ntsb has not obtained the recorder from the if black hawk helicopter. today know where it is, but their first priority is retrieving victims. interestingly, they've brought in a black hawk pilot who is an employee of the agency. he flew in from alaska rain if is here now, he will serve as the ntsb's expert as it relates to that portion of the investigation related ott black hawk helicopter. stu? stuart: grady trimble, thank you very much. defense secretary pete hegseth says dei staffing in the military is unacceptable. >> i don't know exact ifly how the staffing occurred in that

particular air traffic control tower, and it sounds like there was a shortage, and the investigation will tell us more about that. but the environment around which we choose pilots or air traffic controllers, and as a president pointed out correctly yesterday, better be the highest possible standard, the best of the best who are managing, you know, multiple flights. i don't care what background today come from, what their race is, what their gender is, i just need them to be good at their job baud i need my flight -- job because i need my flight to land safely. the same thing to our defense department, to our military. stuart: an faa licensed commercial pilot and aviation investigation analyst joins us here in new york. anthony, do you think that dei played any role in this accident? >> well, the air traffic controller training regulations, the curriculum and exams are quite with difficult. it's a rigorous program. if anyone if is capable of coming through that a program

and successfully completing the exams, even when they now are technically qualified air traffic control earth, they're under very strict supervision in the control towers and in the regional transports of jets. stuart: you would could there be staff shortages because of dei, because there were certain kind of people when they wanted in and wanted out? >> that's a political question -- stuart: it is. >> -- and i'm certainly not a politician, so i really don't have the answer to that a question. stuart: okay. >> i do know that the shortage occurred as a result of the pandemic, and the offering of early retirements to bring the number of controllers down when no one really knew when the pandemic was going to end. i thought it was a foolish move on my part. stuart: let's look at the technicals on this. do you think that the skies over

d.c. are just too crowded and that we have an air a traffic control system of computers that just can't keep up? is that the case many. >> well, i've been flying for near 40 years both professionallingly and personally many personal high performance aircraft, and when i started flying into dca with my personal aircraft, it was busy but not madness. today that airport has much more traffic which was approved by the government, and i have to tell you between the choppers flying along the river right near the approach end of the runways purportedly at 200 feet and aircraft landing at near 300 feet as they cross that river, i don't like the idea. i think it's just too close for can comfort. stuart: got it. anthony roman, thanks for joining us and bringing your

expertise. thank you very much, indeed. we're now learning -- we're learning the names of some of the passengers on the plane. lauren, it seems like figure skating community was badly hit. lauren: yeah. especially the elite figure skating club out of boston, the skating club of boston. 6 of the 14 skaters, coaches and family on that jet were members of this particular club, and 2 of them were teenagers and rising stars. that's spencer lane, he's 16 years old, and gene a that hand, just -- gina han, just 13 years old. this is a tight-knit if community of some of our best figure skaters. here's nancy kerrigan speaking about that. >> you don't have to know everybody to feel that connection. we've been through the same thing, that crane -- training, that rigorous schedule of falling over and over and i somehow picking yourself back up. the community's stood behind me, and i'm grateful for that. and so it's my turn now so,

please, be here. i want to be able to give back what i feel like i got. lawrence: lauren: the crash was hauntingly similar to a plane crash in belgium 64 years ago that killed the u.s. skating team that was on it. stuart: good heavenningses. lauren: it's awful. stuart:s, indeed. lauren, thank you. coming up, mexico and canada bracing for trump's tariffs. >> i'll be putting the tariff of 25% on canada and, separately, 25% on mexico. and we will really have to do that a because we have very big deficits with those countries. stuart: we are not sure if this is going to include tariffs on canadian oil. but we do know that canada's ready to retaliate. former energy secretary under trump dan brouillette on that next. ♪ ♪

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stuart: we're in business now for just over two hour, and the news is this, the dow has turned south but only just, it's off 28. look at that a nasdaq go. technology companies doing very well again today, especially apple. you're up 230 now for the nasdaq composite. coming up, "the big money show," now two hours. it starts at 12 noon. cohost jackie deangelis with a look at what's coming up. jackie. >> hi, stu, always good to see you. we had an awesome week, we've got a big two hours coming up to finish things off. we are talking about tariffs because february 1st is shortly approaching, and president trump is going to have to make some decisions. so how is he working this? we've seen some success already. what does it mean for you at home and your money? we've got all that coming up, top of the hour. we also have steve forbes here and my friend cheryl casone. can't wait. we'll see you then.

stuart: we'll take it all. jackie, thanks very much, indeed. president trump says 25% tariffs on mexico and canada will begin tomorrow, but oil may be excluded. lydia hu joins us from calgary, canada. how much oil do we import from canada anyway? >> reporter: good morning there, stuart. we get roughly 60% of our oil imports from canada, so a significant amount. and while it is the true that america is the world's leading producer of oil, we also consume a lot. we make about 13 if million barrels per day, but we consume roughly 19 million barrels a day. so that leaves us with importing about 6.5 million and around 3.9 million barrels are coming from canada. so some experts and industry insiders that we've been speaking with here on the ground in in alberta tell us that these tariffs on gas and oil and energy, that would lead to higher prices for consumers back in the united states. listen here.

>> because of the integrated nature of the basins and the markets, the physical flow of the oil and gas is going to continue. the only question is, what's the price going to be, and is a tariff going to be borne by the producer? will it be with borne by the consumer at the market end, or will it be shared by the two of them? >> reporter: well, there are a lot of analysts that are chiming in, and some of them are with td economics. they predict that the consumer will bear the brunt of those costs. they predict if an increase in gas prices by 30 cents to as much as 70 cents per gallon if we see tariffs go into effect on oil. one reason for that, stuart, to put a finer point on this is that a canadian oil is currently cheaper than american oil. it trades for about $13 less than american oil. that allows america to buy that canadian cheaper oil, and then

we can sell our more expensive american oil to the market. the worries that a tariff would eliminate that competitive the advantage. so we're going to see how this all unfolds over the next 24 hours. stuart, back to to you. stuart: all right. lydia, thanks very much indeed can. let's bring in former trump energy secretary dan by yet. can -- dan brouillette. canada says they will respond forcefully. looks like we've got a confrontation coming here. >> hi, stuart. well, they could forcefully close the border because i think that is the president's all goao get the canadians to help us with the fentanyl problem that continues to grow. i heard the report that was just given. some of those economics, i think, are just wrong. you know, what really depends here or what really a matters about who pays if there is a tariff imposed is whether or not the producer or the consumer or the refiners here in the united

states have options. and when you think that through and when you think about what that is, the refiners here in the u.s. have options. they can retool their refineries to accept sweet crude coming out of place like texas, and then you have to evaluate the options that a canadians have. we are the largest exporting market for canadian oil. you can't get it to asia or europe very easily. so it may be that the producers in canada will reduce their prices in order to to have access to the u.s. market. i think president trump is a very shrewd negotiate negotiator, and he understands this well, and we'll have to wait and see how this plays out. stuart: i want to know how america going to vastly increase its oil production. at the moment we produce more oil than at any other time in our history, over 13 if million barrels a day. how do we get that up in how do we raise that production so that we can cut oil prices in half in how do we do that? >> well, the easiest way to do it is to begin to release the

leases that are required by law on the offshore areas where it's been produced in the past. the biden administration was very aggressive in taking those lands off of the map, if you will, for oil production. so reestablishing our ability to drill on the offshore, reestablishing our ability to drill on perhaps federal lands will increase production here in the united states. stuart: can't do it quickly though, can we? >> i think we can if we look at the permitting processes here in the united states and look at some of the environmental restrictions around that production, institute. that's been the -- stuart. that's been the other question, why haven't prices come down with the increased production here in the united states? well, the easy answer is we've made that production more expensive. while we are, in fact, producing more and eliminating the scarcity in the marketplace, we've made that production more expensive through things like the green new deal. stuart: how long do you think it would take to produce another, say, 3 million barrels of oil a day? >> that's a good question with.

i don't with really know, stuart, to be honest. there's a lot of variables there, and there's a lot of things that would be dependent upon. but i do know this, this is the most innovative industry in the world. the u.s. oil and gas industry is incredible at what it does. and if there's a way to produce an extra 3 million barrels a day and if the economics work, believe me, they will do it. stuart: dan brouillette, thanks, as always, for giving us your expertise. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: yes, sir. check out the dow 30, sense of the marks. pretty even split between green and red, winners and losers. the dow is now down just 8 points. the real big gains today on the nasdaq. coming up, trump's nominee for fbi directer, kash patel, grilled by democrats during his confirmation hearing. >> mr. chair -- >> i deserve an answer to that question. >> and i will have you reminded that i have been endorsed by over 00,000 -- 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the fbi. let's ask them. stuart: okay. if he gets approved, how will

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stuart: well, kash patel's confirmation hearing for for fbi director very quickly turned fiery. david spun joins us now. -- spunt joins us now. tell us what happened. >> reporter: kash patel heard strong words from both sides of the aisle while asked about a past comments. >> don't go over there and burn down that agency. you go over there and lift it up. if. >> i'd shut down the fbi hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state. >> could you just answer the question, if he said that the fbi headquarters where they investigate cyber crime and terrorism -- >> mr. chair. >> concern -- should be shut down and opened as a museum? did he say the -- >> mr. chair? >> i deserve an answer that question. >> reporter: stuart, patel is a former public defender and government official under the

first trump administration. he responded that in that you just saw and other criticisms were, quote, false accusations and mischaracterizations. finish. >> the priority of the fbi, if i am confirmed, will be to ensure that our communities are protected and safeguarded and our children have parks to play in and not needles to walk over. >> reporter: mr. patel deflected democrat criticism over past statements suggesting he wanted to purge anti-trump keep state officials mt. government. he said there's no tolerance whatsoever for violence against law enforcement one week after president trump granted clemency to more than 1500 involved in the january 6th attack. >> i do not agree with the commutation of any if sentence of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement. >> reporter: republicans moved the focus from pa el to past -- patel to past controversies including the crossfair hurricane probe, that's the basis for the trump-russia that a their incentive that that -- narrative that mr. patel helped

expose. stuart, no date yet set for a full senate confirmation vote, but he's expected to make it through. yes, there were fireworks, but overall republican sources feel that he did very well, and they believe he'll get confirmed. stuart: david spunt, thanks very much, indeed. former fbi agent a nicole parker joins us. nicole, what changes do you think need to be made at the fbi, and is kash patel the right guy to make those changes? >> well, that that's an important question, and if i had enough time for your program, i could probably tell you two hours that -- everything that needs to change at the fbi. what i think are the most important priorities, number one, new leadership. obviously, christopher wray is gone, and a new fbi director is essential. what a lot of americans do not understand is that a lot of the political and social weaponization is happening on lower levels. it's not just the director, it's the executive assistant directors all the way down to

the individual 56 field offices, special agents in charge, assistant special agents in charge, they need to look at every single position in a -- person in a position of power and and evaluate are you upholding the constitution and in a fair and unbiased manner and protecting americans. i also believe they need to have a complete cultural shift. they need new priorities. january 6th has been the number one priority for fbi and doj for four years. they need to get back to fighting crime, stopping foreign terrorist foreign organization groups -- stuart: that's a pretty full-on reform program, aye got to say. look, at least six senior fbi leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or they're going to be fired by monday. six of them, at least six. what's behind this shake-up the? >> in my opinion, i think it's going to be a lot more than six. and, again, it's because a lot of the individuals that are causing the problems at the fbi -- you can it get a new director under any administration, but that doesn't solve the underlying issue, and there need to be tangible consequences for those not doing

the right thing. and from the if outside they're saying, oh, if you're not a trump supporter, they're going to get rid of you. those are positions of power that are abusing their power. i don't care who you support and where you are on the political spectrum. you must carry out your law enforcement duties and uphold the constitution and protect the american people. and i hope and pray that that is what is happening. i can tell you i've heard from many fbi individuals that i used to work with, and there is a strong shake-up going on right now, that's for sure. stuart: nicole, you got it all in. that was really good. thank you very much, indeed, nicole parker. you can come anytime you like. see you later. it's the friday trivia question time. which of the following planets is the smallest? mars, venus, earth, men tune? if we'll -- neptune? we'll be back with the answer. ♪ ♪

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stuart: here's the friday future of your question. which of the following planets is the smallest. mars, venus, earth, neptune. you are playing today and you have the honor of being the first again. what have you got? ashley: it is an honor but i have not a clue. my first instinct was earth which i'm going with number one.

mars. stuart: really? i always thought mars was a giant, giant red planet. lauren: ashley's guess is correct up. i think. i know it is mars. i hope so. stuart: i will -- it is either neptune or earth and i'm going to go with eartha. the answer is mars. wouldn't you know it. the red planet is forth from the sun. mars is have for with the of the earth. i didn't know that. programming note, charles payne taking a deep dive through the troop of tariffs and howell market is going to react on making money at 2:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox business. we are regrettably out of time. "varney and company" wind up another highly successful week if i say so myself. "the big money show" starts in five seconds which means i'm going to tap chance, 3, 2, it is yours.