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it's essentially flat and slightly higher and s&p up half a percent and nasdaq big turn around from yesterday and basically gaining back all they lost yesterday up 224 points. in phaco, it's big tech and energy that are leaving the markets today because some of the big tech names, nvidia, alphabet, amazon, apple, microsoft all moving higher. nvidia is the big winner up 2.6%. let's take a look at 10-year treasury yield that has so much influence these days and lower, just ever so slightly by 1.5 basis points, up 4.54%. no headway for the big tech stocks when it comes to the 10-year treasury yield. now this, china hitting back at president trump's tariffs. and edward lawrence is at the white house this morning. edward, what action is beijing taking? reporter: yeah, arkly, they're making moves and as of canada and mexico economic conflict set to the sidelines for one month

with the pause, china is down 10% tariffs on chinese goods into the united states are now in place and china now retaliated and here's president trump from yesterday. listen. >> we'll have good meetings with china, we have meetings planned, and we'll see what happens but that was just a opening sell if we can't make a deal with china, the tariffs will be very, very substantial. reporter: chinas imposed 15% tariffs now on imports of u.s. coal and lick we fied natural -- liquefied natural gas into china and oil and agricultural machinery, cars and trucks and counter tariffs not a big deal for u.s. and china bocks out oil from america and russia replacing shipments from other plplaces and china opening antitrust investigation into going and will big move sex port controls on rare earth materials and this is china's version of nuclear option and china

controlling about 80% of rare earth across the globe and critical for computer chips and u.s. military fighters and smart weapons as well as every day high temporal integrations like cell phones and bottom line for the white house trade adviser peter f navarro and that is comg from china. >> difference between canada and mexico versus china in all of this problem is that china has a long history going back to the first term and efforts that kellyanne conway led of simply not doing what it said it was going to do. ism i'm hearing that right now president donald trump doesn't have a call with chinese president xi on his books and karoline leavitt about an hour ago out in front of west wing said that call would happen soon. ashley. ashley: things always move quickly now. edward, thank you and we'll continue to follow that. back to the markets and mike murphy joining us this morning.

great to see you, mike. listen, the volatility regarding these tariffs and the back and forth continues on the market i am sure. i'd argue that corporate profits are good and us consumer is strong and any selloffs that we see are buying opportunities and would you agree? >> i really have nothing to add there, ashley. you sum it had up perfectly. good morning, great to see you. so here's where we are, a month -- basically a month into president trump's first year in office, we already have a 2.5% gain in the markets so now we have the tariffs coming out that are causing some big swings both up and down based on headlines and people need to take a step back and let those swings come, and look at bigger picture like you said, we have a strong economy, what president trump is putting into effect is going to make the united states stronger and make our economy stronger, people will have more money, housing will be more affordable and all of that equals higher

stock prices and doesn't mean every day we're going to go up and does mean we can look for big gain in the markets this year. ashley: palantir helping to lead the way and reporting earnings that were blowout. >> palantir checks a lot of boxes. it is a private company that was venture-backed, recent ipo that became public. artificial intelligence, and now they're not doing good, they're doing phenomenal. up over 500% but, you know, when you look at it here though, after the numbers they announced yesterday, i think the question for investors and continues to meaux upright now, can it continue to move and can this be the nvidia of 2025, and i think the answer is yes. it looks like these guys are hitting on all cylinders right now. ashley: up 25% in today's session. talking act google, mike. they report today. do you think the chinese threat

of antitrust investigation has any long term threats to this stock? >> i don't. we're sitting at all time high with that news out but, google and the antitrust stuff whether from the eu or from anywhere else, it comes up often and they deal with it but again, they just have too many ways that they can monetize all the users going to their platform and again, ai is a big part of there what you're gone that hear from the earnings standpoint and i expect more new highs and higher highs from google announced tonight. ashley: up 2.3% in today's session. mike, thank you very much. you'll be with us for the hour and we're thankful for that. now this, white house press secretary karoline leavittplasting u.s. aid for "wasteful spending on dei projects abroad". take a listen to this. >> here's the reason elon musk and others have been taking a look because if you look at waste and abuse that has run through usaid over the past several years, these are some of

the insane priorities that organization has been spending money on. $1.5 million to advance dei in serbia's workplaces, $70,000 for production of dei musical in ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in columbia. $32,000 for a transgender comic book in peru. i don't know about you, but as an american taxpayer, i don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and i know the american people don't either. ashley: i would agree with that. let's not forget the underwater basket weaving grant to moldova for $5 million. i just made that up but that's how silly it is. jimmy failla, great to have you here, so little time and so much material. have fun with this one. >> i'm kind of beat up about this crackdown because i was getting ready to sell one of the transgender comic books called bat person and robin, you know. look up in the sky and it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's

super them. i thought they're building the hills and then doge comes in and crushes it. there's no defense for this kind of spending and the reason you know, ash, there's no spending is the democrats are -- no defense, the democrats are playing the percentage game. look at u.s. aide, it's only like 1% but you're not justifying what happened. if my wife comes up to me and said you lost $5,000 at blackjack table and i go, oh, but it's only 1% of what i lost in the casino. it's not going to make her happy because i'm down 35 grand at blackjack table. the point s this is bad spending, okay. to be clear, the blackjack spending is better than the u.s. sai did spending because you might get a return on your investment. ashley: that's very true. jimmy, i'm sorry. i'm told we only have time for one subject today but good luck with the comic books and keep us updated. jimmy failla as always.

senate republicans off to strong fundraising start this year. madison, come in here. how much cash did they bring in last month? madison: $8.5 million, ashley. the senate republican campaign committee is touting this strong start to the fundraising year and it's a promising number and senate republicans fight to expand the the majority in the chamber and 2026 midterm elections and yes, we're talking about the next election cycle. this is a record amount because it's the best ever off year january haul. this being off year. the rival, democratic democratic senatorial committee yet to announce their january fundraising numbers and republicans want to control the senate in november's elections by flipping open seat in west virginia and ousting democrat incumbents in montana, ohio and pennsylvania. remember the gop currently holds a 53-47 majority in the senate and with this money, they're hoping to expand it in 2026, ash. ashley: well, the extra cash always helps.

madison, thank you very much. coming up, trump's administration focused on stopping flow of dotedly fentanyl coming across the border. >> fentanyl is the leading cause of death amongst young people in this country. it's the president's utmost responsibility to protect american lives. that's why he implemented the 10% tariff on china. ashley: today, the senate judiciary and coming to classify fentanyl in the same category as heroin. we'll have the full report. mexico hoping to avoid trump's tariffs by deploying 10,000 troops to the border. >> the best military soldiers and going to be at the border. 10,000, that's a lot of sol soldiers. ashley: making sure they engage with the cartels and ask chad wolf, next.

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ashley: right now the senate judiciary committee hold ago hearing on the fentanyl crisis. mike emmanuel is joining us this morning. mike, what's been discussed so far? >> ashley, the theme of the ewe dish area hear sergeant the poisoning of america and senators hearing from advocates dealing with the fentanyl crisis, a parent that lost a child to fentanyl poisoning, an emergency physician, and a sheriff from orange county, california. fentanyl is devastating and deadly with just one kilogram capable of killing a half million people part of why president trump's tariffs against china take effect today.

>> they're not going to let the fellal come in from chai -- fentanyl come in from china, and china will hopefully stop sending us fentanyl and if they're not, tariffs go substantially higher. reporter: jd vance back in home state of ohio and talked about the nature of the crisis. >> a thousand lives per year lost to drug overdose, must have which have come from the fentanyl problem. mexico has got to do a better job, and president trump's message is very simple: we are done being taken advantage of. reporter: senate democratic leader chuck schumer does not agree with the president's tactics. jot trump tariffs make gas prices go up, and we should not listen at all to donald trump when he says about about stopping fentanyl. that's nonsense. there's other way to stop fentanyl without making inflation worse and raising costs on the american family. reporter: the house is expected to vote this week on bipartisan bill called halt fentanyl act

and would make fentanyl a schedule one drug for no accepted medical use and high potential for abuse. ashley. ashley: mike emmanuel. mike, thank you very much. chad wolf, former acting dhs secretary joining us this morning. chad, great to have you here. some people would argue this isn't a trade war, it's a drug war. what say you? >> i'd agree with that and disagree strongly with the clip you showed from senator schumer and exactly about fentanyl. i think the president has been very clear during the campaign on his thoughts on the scourge of fentanyl in american communities and all about fentanyl and he takes this very seriously and feels very passionately about this and i think he cares deeply and willing to put them in place and willing to do other things and go after the tar tells and designate them a -- cartels and designate them a terrorist organization because of the fentanyl they push into american

communities and i think the president take this is very seriously, and this is about stopping the fentanyl crisis that we see today. ashley: and hit them where it hurts. mexico say they're preparing to deploy 10,000 troops to the u.s. border in exchange for a one month delay on president trump's tariffs. listen to what the president said about the deal and then i'll get your comments. >> so the call with mexico went very well in the sense that they're very strong now on the boarder and they're going to put soldiers there -- actually their best military soldiers, and they're going to be at the border, 10,000. that's a lot of psychological jerkinses and they want to -- soldiers and they want to protect it also. they don't want people running through mexico and coming into our country. ashley: chad, how effective do you think these troops can be to combat the cartels?

>> sorry, you're cutting up a bit but i think this is a good move by president trump. obviously during the first term, we deployed -- we had mexico deploy troops to their northern and southern border. he knows that it can be done. it's just you've got to push mexico to get there and of course that's what he's doing and it's a direct threat obviously to the cartels operating along that border. the question is, you know, are they going to back up words with specific actions and how effective are those troops and is the mexican military going to be when they get there and get on site. they can be very effective if they want to be but if they are going to be compromised by cartels and others, then maybe it won't turn out to be exactly productive as we want it to. so a little bit is still left up and we'll see how it plays out. ashley: china, from what i understand, provides raw materials to the cartels who then convert it into fentanyl.

if you cut off china, which is not easy to do but if you cut that off, can't they just go somewhere else for those materials? >> well, they certainly can, and they started producing some of their own materials over these last several years and cutting it off from china is a gad first step. again, we'll see if what china agrees to and they back it up with actually actions, but this comes down to mexico. this comes down to the cartels taking them seriously and taking specific actions against the cartels that need to be done. they'll substitute fentanyl for something else and the human trafficking will continue and you've got to target the cartels. ashley: last would be for you, president trump's border czar, tom homan, joined the program earlier and listen to what he said about dealing with those cartels. >> the cartels aren't going to take this lightly. when we secure the border, we're taking billions of dollars out of their pockets so they're not going to go away quietly.

they're going to fight this thing. so we're going to take them on. we have military on the border now, border agents are well aware of the threats. there'll be violence and it's something we're prepared to handle, but i want to warn the cartels if you harm a border police or soldiers, president trump will not hesitate to take extreme action. i think president trump would wipe them off the face of the earth. ashley: wipe them off the face of the earth. just to expand on this, chad, this isn't a battle the cartels can win, is it? >> i don't think they can. not if we put the full weight and force of the u.s. government behind it. there's no doubt that what tom homan, president trump, and the whole dhs team right now is doing is disrupting their business model. and they are a business; right. they're there to make money more than anything else. so as you disrupt that business model, the question is what are they going to do? how are they going to react, and if it gets violent, gets violent

against u.s. law enforcement officers or against americans, i think tom homan is exactly right, the president is not going to delay, not for a bit, in deploying forces and going after the cartels. that's a choice that they've got to make, but make no mistake that disruption of their business model is in the cards and it's happening and it'll continue to happen. ashley: how do you think it'll play out? chad, do you expect we'll see violence break out? >> i think it could get more violent in the short term, but i think depending on the relationship with the government of mexico and president sheinbaum's administration there, if we can come together to address the cartel situation, i think that's going to be far more effective than the u.s. going it alone, all though we should if that's what it comes to. we did this in columbia with a willing partner in columbia back in the '80s and we can do it here again. we have the capabilities and the

resources. if we have that willing partner in mexico, i think it'll be far more effective. ashley: very good. well, of course we'll follow every develop new mexico. chad wolf, thank you so much, chad, for joining us this morning. coming up, the trump administration singling out five universities over the rise of anti-semitism on their campuses. we'll have a full report on that. president biden kicking off a new career in hollywood. he reportedly just signed a deal with a power house agent and kennedy is all over that one and she's next. ♪

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ashley: this just in, axios reporting president trump planning to attend the super bowl in new orleans on sunday and don't forget sit down with bret baier for pregame interview. lots of good stuff to look forward to. check the markets and certainly recovering from yesterday and especially on those big tech names on the nasdaq and nasdaq

up and basically recovering everything that it lost yesterday but up across the board and let's bring mike murphy back in. mike, you've got stock picks and start with snap. >> thank you, ash. so snap we've talked about a lot on this program and it's been up as high as $17, $18 a share and down here at $11.50 and earnings coming out tonight and i like the setup because downside is probably in the $10 range and very limited downside and upside i see backing with 17, 18 range and going. they have a lot of users to figure out how to monetize the users and stock can move into the 20s and i like it here and i own it. ashley: very good. microsoft. >> people are knocking microsoft and come down from 460 to where it is right now at 412. look at business and what they're doing and innovating and how they'll monetize artificial intelligence going forward and i

think the 50 point haircut it's taken recently is too much. i also own it ask plan on owning for a long time. ashley: very good. mike, thank you very much. now this, president trump reportedly prepared executive actions to dismantle the department of education. all right, madison, come back n. doesn't something like that need congressional approval? madison: yes, ash, it does. but that's not stopping trump. listen to what press secretary karoline leavitt said to stu earlier this morning. >> so you can't confirm that he is going to try to abolish the department of education? can't confirm that for us? >> i will say that president trump campaigned on that promise, and i think the american people can expect him to deliver on it. madison: there you have it, president trump's team is reportedly preparing executive actions that are aimed at dismantling the education department. officials reportedly discussed an executive order to shut down the functions of the department,

not written into statute or moving certain functions to other agencies with a white house official confirming to fox that trump plans to reevaluate the future of the department. trump already taking action when it does come to education signing executive orders last week on school choice, and ending funding for schools that support what the white house calls "racial indoctrination". closing down department of education could be next and advocates are warning that could have dire consequences. >> if we need to outeducate china and outcompete china, we need to have some federal policy that actually shows how to do that. madison: all this as education secretary nominee linda mcmahon has yet to do a confirmation hearing due to a paperwork delay. ashley. ashley: paperwork delay. madison, thank you very much. got to bring in kennedy joining us this morning.

kennedy, the department of education reportedly handed out more than $200 million to universities to include dei into counseling causes. i know the answer but is this really the best use of that money? >> no, the best use of money is to give back to taxpayers and instead moving around large sums and the shell game which really robs people of assets and help. you know, we are in the middle of a mental health crisis in this country, and forcing dei into counseling and psych departments isn't making anything better. you know, telling people that they are oppressors is essentially blaming them for some of their mental health issues, and kids continue to suffer because mental illness knows no race and, you know, if you have been a victim of abuse or if you have been isolated because of covid and have never recovered, those dollars aren't going to get to you if you have

the great misfortune of being a white student who has now been deemed to be the author of your own problems because of this essentially racist architecture. ashley: yeah. exactly. let's move on. onto this issue, former president biden signed with talent agency creative artist agencies and explores his options after the white house. i thought his option was to the retirement home. could he be going to hollywood? >> i think that, you know, there are probably agents out there who have diluted themselves into thinking that the bidens are going to be legitimate cash enterprise the way the obamas have been. and if pop want to go and capitalize on it, that's what the free market is for. if there's people to want to consume their books and speeches, i'm fine with that.

it would be the first time the biden family sees a legitimate wind fall so if there's a market, i personally feel like it's dwindling. it would be -- if i'm mike murphy here, it would be a no from me but, hey, if they feel like they can sell that shel lac turd, have at it. ashley: i see him playing the lead in the sequel to cocoon, what say you? >> skip the middleman and go right to the mortuary. ashley: oh, whatever he does, he looks for money. kennedy, i love your pieces in the daily mail. love it so much. >> thanks, ash. ashley: oh, yeah, of course. the department of education has launched an investigation into five universities over anti-semitism on campus come back in, madison, what schools are we talking about? madison: columbia univerty,

portland university, university of california berkeley, university of minnesota twin cities, and northwestern university. according to the department of education, widespread anti-semitic activity reported at each of the five institutions and the northwestern university president was singled out in the report for misleading congress and "actively entertaining the request to hire an a an anti-zit rabbi and putting anti-semitist faculty on their campus". department of education working with the department of justice and department of health and human services to conduct these investigations and to combat anti-semitism on these campuses. ash, there's a new sheriff or new administration in town, and we heard this on the campaign trail and know from what we're seeing there's a low toll lance per an -- low tolerance and seeing repercussions with lawsuits like this.

ashley: quite right. madison, thank you very much. coming up, thousands of demonstrators protesting trump's immigration policies marching through downtown los angeles for the second day and comes as efforts to secure the southern border are ramping up. in a new agreement, texas national guardsman can now make immigration arrests. we'll have more on that, next. at ameriprise financial, we know our clients are so much more than clients. they're conquerors and champions, parents

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ashley: all right, take a look at these markets and still in the green. the dow up about two tenth os f a percent and nasdaq up 250 and checking nasdaq finished down at close 235. essentially just gained everything back from yesterday's loss on the nasdaq and just a

little more. all right, coming up, the big money show is now two hours starting at 12:00 p.m. eastern and cohost jackie deangeles is here now with a look at what's coming up on the big money show. jackie. >> hey, ash, it got bigger and getting bigger every single day. we are following these markets closelily china strikes back and president trump said he'd impose a 10% tariff on china and now china coming back with tariffs and export restrictions and keeping an eye on the call the president is supposed to have be president xi later today and saw what happened yesterday with canada and mexico and that's why the markets are pacing themselves to break it all down, 12-2 and top of the hour. ashley: loathes to cover, jackie, thank you very much. hundreds of protesters continuing to march in downtown los angeles over trump's immigration policies. jonathan hunt in los angeles.

jonathan, things got a little chaotic at night, didn't they? reporter: yeah, absolutely and second day running and protesters caused chaos on major roadways in la and part of what seems likely for ongoing protest movement against president trump's raids to arrest and deport violent illegal immigrants. on monday the protesters some waving mexican flag gwathered at city hall marching through downtown la and day without immigrants and police watched the protest march and included families with children who had organized a school walk out as part of the protest and families largely drifted away as night fell and ring leaders seemed more intent on blocking traffic as they did on sunday when they shut down part of the 102 freeway in la. at that point, police declared unlaw enforcement assembly and disburse order and some of the protests followed those orders

and others did not and a number of people were briefly detained. and there's rest of illegal immigrants continue across the country and la city council, which formally declared los angeles a sang ware city in november is set to consider several new measures today designed to help immigrants amid the trump administration's crackdown and five proposals include requiring businesses to report to the city any workplace raids or other federal immigration enforcement actions and a know your rights campaign to inform rizz detects about the protections available to them on both sides, ash, these appear to be just the opening salvos in what's likely to be ongoing battle between local authorities in this sanctuary city and others and federal agents charged with following through on president trump's policies. ashley. ashley: thank you so much, jonathan hunt in la this morning.

jonathan, thank you. aclu filed a lawsuit to stop president trump's plan to close the u.s.' asylum process at border. come back in, madison. on what grounds are they sue something madison: they're arguing that the executive order limiting asylum access violating u.s. law and there's no longer an asylum period for people to cross into the country and lawsuit argues that president trump's order led to quick order of deportation of migrants denying them any meaningful access to asylum, which is in violation of u.s. law. a lawyer with aclu saying "countless people including families with small children returned to danger and may to their death, plain and simple. it's a power grab at expense of congress. now president biden limited asylum for my grants that crossed into the u.s. illegally and it opened up the pathway for migrants that entered through a ported of entry with things like

cbp-1 app and those pathways have been closed under trump and that's why you have this aclu lawsuit. ashley: got it. another one for you, madison. what's this about texas national guardsman now being authorized to make immigration arrests? madison: two sides of the same story, we have a real shift in border security and texas national guardsmen are authorized to make immigration arrests at the border and this is based on agreement between the state and the trump administration so according to governor greg abbott arrests can be meat and this is effective immediately and he signed a memorandum of understanding with the u.s. customs and border protection. green lighting this change. the guards men are required to be accompanied by border patrol agents so for years, governor greg abbott tried unsuccessfully to deputy size state and local law enforcement to make these immigration arrests now the

pathway is open, ash. ashley: yeah, these are the times he's been dreaming of. all right, madison, thank you very much. come bag in here, mike murphy. of course, weave been talking about this issue for years. what do you make of president trump's crackdown at southern border? >> well, i think any u.s. citizen pes to keep illegal people dangerous to the country out of the country. there's a pathway for immigrants as my parents were, there's a pathway for immigrants to come into the country legally. i think really when you take that -- safety of the u.s. is going to extrapolate into a stronger u.s. and stronger u.s. consumer and to tie it into the markets, what president trump's allowing down at the border is going to be positive for business in the u.s., it'll be positive for the markets so he said he would do it and he's doing it. ashley: oh, yes he is. totally agree. mike murphy. thank you so much. take a look at dow 30 stocks quickly and a sense of where we are and dow has been on the even

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ashley: the senate finance committee voted to advance robert f kennedy to be health and human services secretary and going to the full senate for a vote. chad pergram on capitol hill and you say it's about the math so does the math work for rfk jr.?

reporter: on the floor we don't know just yet. but the finance committee voted 14-13 along party lines to send nomination to the florida. gop louisiana senate bill cassidy agreed to vote yes after deeming "intense conversations". still questions linger about vaccines. >> only way bobby kennedy and i will cross wise and if he does actually take a position against the safety of proven vaccines and that'll be a problem for me. >> it'll be at least a week or more before kennedy's nominee nation hits the floor. could be gop noes there and democrats are united in their opposition of kennedy. >> do senators want their legacy to include disregarding basic health science and instead

elevate conspiracy theorists and it would be a grave threat to the health of the american people. reporter: they questioned kennedy's past when president trump picked him for the job and have he has vagueses about what mr. trump said about his approach to health policy. georgia democrat raphael warnock represents the sentsers of disease -- centers for disease control in atlanta. >> donald trump said he was going to allow mr. robert kennedy to "go wild on health". go wild. of all the things that i can think of i'd like to see a secretary of health and human services do, go wild is not on the list. reporter: also, the senate intelligence committee votes on tulsi gabbard to be director of national intelligence and todd young will support gabbard and senate votes to confirm pam bondi as attorney general later today. ashley. ashley: see how the math works. chad pergram, thank you so much.

appreciate that. bring in caroline cavalerro and caroline, begin right there. what do you like about rfk jr.? >> yeah, thanks for having me, ashley. pretty simple. our children are very sick. our children are very sick and sicker than they've been before. parents in this millennial and now gen z generation coming up are demanding radical transparency. it's very clear to parents with sick children that if we could vaccinate and drug our way out of this problem, we would be, and our children would be healthier. but the reality is that this system has failed results, and it's very clear, it's plain and simple, we have the highest rates of prediabetic children, highest rates of children os antidepressants and other drugs and the way i like to describe it we're at a fork in the road. we either continue along the path we've b been going down wih failed results or going a different path, which is the

path that rfk is leading. he's not a perfect man and we think he's the perfect person for this job at this time. ashley: while we have you here, caroline, tell me about processed seed oils and dyes that you say destroy the gut microbe buy i don't mean. tell me about that -- biome. >> yes, these are chemical-rich and seed oils like soy and corn and canola are processed in a ton of chemicals. the dyes are chemicals, this ultra processed food are just chemical after chemical in our body and it's reeking havoc on the gut myorobin lou biome and composition of -- micro-biome and it's on our body and incredibly important for digest ick track and immune system and more. these particular ingredients in foods are causing long-term impact on our body and for mothers, you pass on your

gut micro-biome to your children and directly impacting the next generation, and this is what we're seeing right now on the world stage and a huge opportunity for us to turn it around. ashley: have to leave it there, caroline. thank you for your insight this morning. always appreciate it. >> thank you, ashley. ashley: bring back in mike murphy if we can -- thank you. mike, if rfk jr. and tulsi gabbard get confirmed, trump pretty much has most of his nominees through. what do you think of that? >> i think it's great and sets him up to do what he promise when had he was running and specifically on rfk, ashley, just quickly, our health systems in this country is broken and we need somebody to come in who knows what they're doing and up send it and turn over a lot of rocks and get a lot of bad stuff out of our diets and most importantly our children's diets. ashley: amen to that. mike, thank you. guess what, it's full-time for the tuesday trivia question, and here it is. which great lake has the longest

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asked which great lake has the longest shoreline. madison? what do you say? madison: i will go with option number one. lake superior. >> i will go with madison, superior. i'm going with number one. ashley: i am too. it is the biggest lake. the answer is number 2, here on. how embarrassing. thank you so much. thank you as always. that's it for "varney and company". "the big money show" starts now. >> what i have discussed is that we will have some good meetings with china. we have meetings planned and we will see what happens but that was just an opening salvo. if we can to make a deal with china the tariffs will be very substantial.