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some red ink but not that much, the dow is down 30, the nasdaq was down a hundred. the 10 year treasury, interesting, the yield is below 4. 5%, last i checked it was $4.48. we got it? not got it yet, the price of oil at 72, $73 a barrel, it's down. $4.42 on the 10 year. and crude oil 70 one dollars and $0.97. as for bitcoin, it's under one hundred grand at the moment, 98-4 is your price, got the latest read on the home mortgage services sector. ashley: this is the key gauge coming and at 52.8. that is still expansion but the estimate of 54.3 it also marks the seventh straight month of expansion. outperforming the manufacturing

sector even though that sector unexpectedly moved into expansion last month. prices, 60. 4%, slightly lower than the last reading which means prices are slightly lower which is good if you are fighting inflation. stuart: thank you very much indeed. now this. i spent tuesday afternoon watching donald trump answering questions from the media and following a news conference with benjamin netanyahu. i have to admit my jaw dropped when he proposed the takeover of gaza and rebuilding it into the riviera of the middle east. i don't think anyone was expecting that and the questions started immediately. who is going to pay for this? where will the palestinians go, how will you get them out? there are no immediate answers, just are sense of shock that he should think so far out of the box. nobody else has even a vague

suggestion what to do. at least trump has an idea. an opening bid. it may sound outlandish but it is a solution. gaza can't go back to hamas control, they are promising another october 7th, given money they are building tunnels and firing off rockets, the media doing rounds of middle east experts who dismiss in contemptuous terms the riviera of the middle east but what have they got? nothing. if they got their way, hamas would be back murdering israelis and destabilizing the middle east. trump has opened the bidding, it is one solution. get the negotiations begin. second hour of varney just beginning. liz peek, i'm dying to know what was your reaction when you saw the riviera of the middle east? >> i was watching donald trump

talk about the rubble, the unexploded munitions which i never thought about which is a huge problem. buildings about to fall down. i thought he is a developer, he has got to go there, he's going to talk about redeveloping gaza but like you said everyone is going to dismiss this, headlines in new york times and wall street journal act like it is a done deal, a proposal on the table, he's just thinking out loud which he tended to do but you have to say what are they going to do with gaza? the majority of people in gaza support hamas, we are never told that but polling has showed that is why hamas runs gaza, the people of their think that's what they should be doing, oh so what are they going to do? allow these people to go back to their homes and two years from now, four years from now, 10 years from now have another october 7th? what is the solution? the problem is the palestinian

people of gaza have enormous sympathy with terrorism, terrorists, they don't want them in jordan, or egypt, nobody wants these people but the answer is if you disperse them you at least have some chance at a reboot of this region. the america going to take over gaza? no, nor are we going to take over militarily panama nor are we going to take over militarily greenland. all this hyperventilating on the left about all these things trump talks about at the quarry they all make sense and the fear mongering on the left is overdone and stupid. i have to say i did anticipate that he had a developer and concept here. i am beginning to become of the trump whisper i think. stuart: i like your op-ed. is that a bump in the road, a bump in the road or making a mess of every thinking, what's your conclusion, making a mess of everything? >> i don't think so because i

do think and i was writing this and the thing was changing every 30 minutes but i did think it was a negotiating tactic. i do think there is really no reason why mexico and canada should not help us secure our borders, why is that negative for those countries, why should they want to have fentanyl coming into our country which by the way in 2023 killed 70,000 americans more than from gun violence which we hear about every 30 seconds from the left, more than car crashes, this was a horrible thing that happened to the united states, totally appropriate for donald trump to take on the people who are aiding and abetting that and unconscionable that president biden never did a thing. it is really the open border had so many things wrong but this is inexcusable. stuart: thanks for your contribution today, outstanding as usual. got to get to the markets, i see red ink especially the nasdaq which is down 125, the

dow close to 200 points, got that. i want to talk big tech. across-the-board, big tech is under pressure, in particular it is apple and google. of we reached a pivotal point, a wonderful run for big tech, how we reach the end of that run and it is it now headed south? >> there's probably some bad news out of the market. i would say it is more or less the end of panama but not the end of making money. what just happened, everybody too quickly wanted to shrug it off, do they only spent 5. 6 million, did they only do it in two months, probably not. a lot of that stuff is probably not true. however, i woke up in the states to competition and maybe it is not going to be as easy as everybody thought it was going to be. we will see great growth, they will see great promise and the

s&p will be up 10% to 15% for the year. it will be between probably the low end of the year between 4. 5% % to 5.5% this year so i think it will be okay, not as great as it was. people are getting so used to things being so fantastic, now the we interjected a little competition i look for stem altman, when he heard about this he said fine, we will bring out our stuff and compete with them. i love competition, that's the america i know, we will compete but it won't be as easy as people thought it would be in the beginning. stuart: i saw the price of gold approaching $2900 an ounce today, record high. do you ever dabbled in gold, is now the time to put some money there? >> not going to buy it at an all-time record high, something i wouldn't do but it has been a good barometer of how people are feeling out there.

these tariffs, there are some nerves in the market about the tariffs, even in the ad sector and i'm sure the model and the tech sector. that's a problem. you have other issues with the economy and inflation and i will make a big statement, i think by the end of this year inflation will be a bigger story than tariffs, tariffs are story right now but this inflation issue is not going to go and the longer it sticks around the bigger deal it is going to be. keep an eye on that. i will talk about that on my show but inflation will overtake tariffs as the big story and that will be a problem for trump. stuart: thanks for joining us, always good. thanks. come on in, ashley, we've not spoken to you yet this morning. hello again, ashley. stuart: clearly it was memorable. you are looking at the movers, get me out of this, tell me about supermicro.

ashley: talking about the chipmaker. full production of its nvidia powered ai data center, it is up 6. 4%, nvidia itself up 3%. another chipmaker, amd, simply falling out of bed this morning after posting its fourth quarter report. investors not happy with the data center revenue. that came in below estimates, stock as you can see taking it on the chin, down essentially 10% and take a look at workday, the hr solutions company just announcing a major restructuring plan that includes nearly 1800 job cuts, that's about 8.5% of the workforce. analysts say those will be invested in artificial intelligence. the stock, investors like the news, up 2.5%. stuart: sometimes older people forget what they were talking about ten seconds ago. it will happen to you. it certainly happens to me.

ashley: to you again? that's right. stuart: see you again later i hope. still ahead. you've got to watch this. comedian jon stewart has a request for democrats. >> democrats. can you please stop? trotting humor out there? stuart: he might be right. trump doubles down on ending usaid. i ask a former official about the way stand the fraud. and announcement no one saw coming, donald trump wants the united states to rebuild the war-torn gaza strip. >> the us will take over the gaza strip and do a job with it too. stuart: joni ernst reacts to that. the senator is next.

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stuart: the down the still down 82, nasdaq down 120, that is where we are on wall street at the moment. bill gates calling out elon musk's handling of usaid. >> in the case of usaid, he doesn't appreciate the phenomenal work that goes on. it is not partisan work, it is nutrition, it is -- >> beyond repair.

>> i give billions of dollars to the same thing usaid does. i go out in the field and study these things. i higher scientists. i think if he really knew the work there he wouldn't be telling 10,000 people not to come and do that work. stuart: iowa senator joni ernst joined me now. you are the chair of the senate doge caucus. do you think usaid should be dismantled? >> i do think it needs to be reorganized, thank you for having me on to talk about this topic because i have witnessed firsthand the obstruction within usaid as we try to exercise our congressional oversight of some of these programs. we know there are dollars that are wasted that have gone into the pockets of fat cats around the globe without the

humanitarian aid being delivered. in respect to mr. gaetz, i truly do appreciate the work that he does and there are programs in usaid that are worthy of keeping. however, we have seen such complacency with oversight and direction from usaid, sometimes it takes a sledgehammer and that is exactly what elon musk is doing, he is dismantling it, it will be scrutinized but i can guarantee you, worthy projects that benefit americans and our objectives those programs will be rebuilt but they will have a proper oversight within the state department and congress. stuart: let's move to the headlines about making story of the day, the week, donald trump wants to take over the gaza strip and rebuild it. watch this again please. >> the us will take over the gaza strip and we will do a job

with it, we will own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing get for the people of the area. be a real job, do something to her, can't go back, if you go back it will end of the same way it has for 100 years. stuart: obviously numerous questions, but get something out. it's the only plan on the table, nobody else has got it. >> if you listen to the president, he is very pragmatic because there are issues and gaza right now, the terrorists reoccupy yang the area, we need to make sure the tunnels are

done away with and caches of weapons are being destroyed so he's being very pragmatic in that we need to to protect what moves into gaza but secondly, he's being very visionary. what can we offer the palestinians in gaza. what can we offer israelis, and we want to offer them something better, shouldn't they have a better life. and it can be explored by all of those involved in the middle east, we can come together on the, doesn't mean the united states will be there owning gaza at least he's thinking about the situation and the day after. i'm really grateful he's taking

that step. how can we be good players with others and abraham accords to make sure there's a positive outcome for israel and gaza. stuart: i'm sure you saw this but donald trump has signed an executive order withdrawing from the un human rights council and banning future funding for the un relief agency in gaza. are you okay with that? >> i'm okay with it. being a disruptor, making sure these organizations are truly doing what they are supposed to do. you do not need funding from the united states if you are impacting our allies and our friends and they were negatively impacting countries we care about, people we care about so we should no longer support, the human rights council has become a joke at the united nations and i'm so excited we have a lease

stefanik representing our interest at the united nations. stuart: defense secretary pete hegseth says last month the army hit its best recruiting number in 15 years. i'm familiar with your service record, you are a combat veteran and you now serve on the senate armed services committee. has trump's presidency made a difference in recruitment? >> i think it has. i think finally americans are saying the united states of america that is worthy of fighting for. that is something our young people need to hear from their commander-in-chief, we believe in our country and our values and the freedoms we hold so dear, you never hear that from president biden or those representing him in the department of defense, young men and women are excited about the opportunity to give back to

this incredible nation. i'm working on the serve act which will hopefully be part of the nda which will come encourage recruitment into our service branches. stuart: you really are encouraged by the first 15, 16 days of the trump administration, you're happy with what you see. >> i'm overjoyed. i'm overjoyed at the opportunity being presented to americans now. americans can truly believe that our future is going to be better and brighter under this new administration and this new congress. blue and great having you on the show. democrat senator elizabeth warren finding common ground with trump. dismantling the federal workforce, which department is on the chopping block, the story next.

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stuart: one hour into the trading session the outstanding feature is the nasdaq composite down 118, big tech not doing well today. ashley looking at the movers. start with honda please. ashley: the automaker rising on the merger with nissan is in jeopardy. they hope to make niece anna subsidiary. that's not going down well with nissan. the two boards will meet soon to discuss killing that merger proposal. honda up 3.3% on that news. next up is match group which named a new ceo, spencer ra raskoff will head up the country, tender at steady decline in users, investors perhaps a little skeptical in his ability to turn things around, stock down 7% this

morning. look at the virtual healthcare company just announced an at-home wellness exam provider, all cash deal valued at $65 million. ashley: thanks very much. stuart: the trump administration and doge working terrain and the number of government jobs. hillary vaughan joins us from capitol hill. our federal workers taking trump's buyout offer? >> reporter: they are, 20,000 federal workers have taken this buyout option to quit their job get an 8 month paid vacation out of it but if not enough workers take advantage of this generous offer there could be layoffs. a supervisor at the government service agency sent a memo saying layoffs are likely. the goal is a 2% to 5%, with

federal workforce downsized a, the department of government efficiency has been the leading contractor they think are unnecessary, $30.12 more leases for unused office space, saving 3 million, donald trump says he's happy with what elon musk in his doge team are doing. >> look at all the fraud he has found in that usaid, the whole thing, >> elon musk's demolition project is sending democrats into a spiral. they are mad that musk is making these changes. some of them are so upset about these changes he is making

unilaterally that some say they want him locked up. >> got to tell elon musk -- >> he must be made to pay, must enforce the law. >> lock him up. >> it is pretty clear we have to -- >> shut down the city. we are at war. >> reporter: some democrats think the enemy is elon musk. some americans think the real threat is our debt and out-of-control spending. stuart: we the people have got that one right. great report, see you later, the president as an donald trump confirms he is winding down usaid. >> wind down usaid? >> i think so. >> when that happens which part of the government -- >> i can see marco rubio being

in charge of the state department, some of the money is well spent. much of it is fraudulent. stuart: catherine, you used to work for usaid, do you see fraud and waste when you are working there? >> absolutely. i also worked at the state department for three years before usaid. as a state department official we would try to keep usaid in line with the secretary of state, and it was very difficult, there was no traceability, no accountability and it was hard to do our jobs with the state department to keep everything in mind with the secretary. stuart: give me an example. >> the list goes on and on and on. i read recently they were

funding a sesame street program, we've gotten so out of control and usaid was created by president kennedy under executive order and his idea for the agency would be house under the department of state, donald trump and marco rubio to bring usaid back under the department of state. stuart: what they are doing is try to bring some accountability for the money we are spinning around the world, $40 billion a year for accountability of where the money went. is it in america's interest to spend money that way? >> absolutely. you have a department out there spending money not in alignment, the natural

inclination is to bring back into review. and perhaps cut it. donald trump as ceo of the united states has deputized elon musk as i see the fact oh comptroller of america, reviewing every penny going out the door and that is within his right. article 2 of the constitution gives the president that right, this power of government, it is aligned with our interests. stuart: nothing illegal about that. thanks for joining us. see you again soon. the cohosts of the view slamming elon musk for having access to the government's bank account. what are they saying about this? ashley: our friends on the view claim elon musk and donald trump are running amok at the white house threatening to flush the constitution down the toilet. listen to these pearls of

wisdom. >> are americans going to be okay with musk? okay. a guy nobody voted for. having all this kind of power. >> what they are doing is illegal. >> he is causing a constitutional crisis intentionally so this goes to the supreme court, and if the supreme court, ladies and gentlemen, say yeah, he can do this, our constitution as we have known it. ashley: is in the toilet. the last two weeks of the trump administration has felt like a year, probably because more has been done in the last two weeks than the previous administration managing four years but i digress. stuart: feel free to digress. see you again soon. trump was asked about biden

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stuart: big tech taking on the chin, the nasdaq leading indicators to the downside. it is down 88 points. the dow is up a near 30. the senate banking committee is holding a hearing on accusations that big banks refuse to do business with conservative clients. what is this claim about? >> reporter: this happens when a bank refuses to do business with a particular customer or

client. the accusation is they are making this determination based on subjective criteria like political views or religious beliefs. it's a real concern for conservatives in the crypto industry who say they been targeted. senator tim scott chairs the banking committee, here's what he said moments ago. >> this issue should concern every american regardless of political affiliation. that's why i am committed to a bipartisan solution to stop this form of discrimination. >> reporter: donald trump raised concerns directly with bank of america's ceo at the world economic forum in davos accusing bank of america of refusing to do business with conservatives. bank of america says they never close accounts for political reasons but rules and regulations sometimes require them to end those client services, donald trump's

concern is finding bipartisan support. senator elizabeth warren who sits on the senate banking committee wrote a letter to donald trump saying she's ready to work with him. here's what warren said moments ago. >> donald trump was on to a real problem when he criticized bank of america for its the banking practices. >> reporter: giving trump credit which is a sign of the bipartisan support trump is now getting in dc. exactly what to do about it, that is where the roads diverge, warren is calling for more regulation from the consumer protection bureau but we will hear from witnesses who say regulation is the problem, it's not going to be the answer. stuart: interesting and complicated but important. thanks very much indeed. treasury secretary scott bessent will join larry kudlow, his first tv interview since

joining the administration. the senate voted to confirm pam bondi for attorney general. how are things looking? >> reporter: we could have confirmations by next week, the most controversial nominees that continue to make their way through the process. tall say gabbard -- tulsa gabbard and rfk junior survived the questioning. tom cotton helped rescue her nomination, helpful in getting senators todd young and susan collins on board for gabbard. rfk junior was able to win over supportive bill cassady. he's a doctor and says he received serious commitments from the administration, he did not want to see vaccines go away and he was able to vote yes, they are on track to be confirmed next week.

stuart: democrats on the senate judiciary committee want a second hearing on the hearing for kash patel. >> reporter: they are not done with him the yet. he needs to answer the surge of firings at the fbi and false statements made. he had his hearing, the day before the trump administration fired dozens of doj and fbi officials. >> they are contrary to the assurances we were given by kash patel. he said to us when i asked him directly, pointedly, all fbi employees will be protected against political retribution, this retribution undermines enforcement by the fbi of drug cases and terrorism and bring back kash patel for a second

hearing and jointly do our oversight that we were mandated to do on this topic. >> reporter: blumenthal wants kash patel to answer for trump's actions, chuck grassley shot down the idea. stuart: thanks very much. madison, still had come in two weeks donald trump has expanded the power and authority of the presidency. he's using elon musk to do it. the strategy is clear, overwhelm the government with rapid fire change, that's "my take" coming up at the top of the hour and democrats don't like it. watch this. >> we have to fight this in the courts, fight this in the congress, fight this in the streets. stuart: they are apoplectic. more on that after this. ♪

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stuart: look at the big board,

not that much action, dow up 12 points, not much action. there are some dow industrial winners. toppings that list, amgen is up 5. 8%, a solid gain. nvidia is up today, boeing, walmart and goldman sachs, the s&p, supermicro, old dominion freight line and technique corporation. nasdaq, the winners of their, electronic arts, marvell technology. the interesting thing, the yield on the 10-year treasury coming down below 4.5%, price of gold interesting, new record high, $2,903 per ounce, bitcoin about one hundred grand, actually 98-2, $71 a barrel,

not much action, 324. 312 for regular. but california will pay through the nose in the golden state, you're looking at $4.50 per gallon in california. there's a lot going on today and we will bring brian kilmeade to cover it. one thing we want to look at is the activity of doge and what the president is saying about taking over gaza. waiting for 10:50 wonder all around, you have ten seconds to wait and here we go, i will count it down. any minute now it will be brian kilmeade in the center of the screen. please do it for me. there he is. senate minority leader chuck schumer started chanting we will win. daily show host jon stewart didn't think much of that. >> i'm going to stand with you and this fight and we will win. >> we will win! >> we will win!

we will win! we will win! >> the trade war, tell us guacamole is made of avocado. >> democrats, can you please stop? trotting schumer out there? every time -- [applause] >> every time trump traverses into the unreal -- he's not good at this. stuart: i think jon stewart is right. what do you say? brian: he has the right done, never a trump fan but never vote for him but understands the american people did so he's taking it move by move. these other guys led by chuck schumer who is not a good leader, not a good or ater and doesn't think good on his feet, doesn't think anything authentic, chuck schumer stood for anything he would have

stood up as a jewish-american, against the anti-semitism behavior at nyu, colombia, city college but he doesn't. he thinks screaming into a microphone when you have a microphone you don't have to scream, maxine waters, we are going to fight. what are you going to fight? pro l btt peru parades, pro dei assemblies in serbia, that's usaid, you have elon musk going in trying to cut budgets, weed out organizations because get this, we are one. $4 trillion over budget with the budget president biden left. not only do we have a deficit but we are one. $4 trillion over, elon musk is looking at what is coming in and coming out. he already identified $240 billion in fraud. he says we are saving $1 billion a day so they get up and chant against trump and elon musk?

turns out aoc doesn't think elon musk is bright, the dumbest billionaire she knows. i don't know what to say, the bartender from queens is not impressed with the richest most successful man in the world. i don't know how to bridge that gap. stuart: the bartender from queens, a good put down. donald trump reacted to biden signing with a talent agency. >> what do you think of joe biden signing up? >> you got to be kidding. he signed on with a talent agency? i think he's got bigger problems of and that. i think he's got much bigger problems than that but i wish him well. we inherited a mess, this place is a mess but it is quickly being solved. we are going to make america great again. stuart: trump said biden has much bigger problems. do you think, a lot of people saying china has something over

biden and that's a big problem. what say you? brian: i don't know. i know they lied about the business dealings in china. hunter biden was on air force 2 to do a business deal with china, two weeks after he lost the election were kamala harris lost the election, pictures of him, with the chinese investors over the company. went to seven different bidens but they say none went into joe's account but joe was the commodity. read james comber's book. take a second. you have no problem saying it, tax people, the guy was not there for four years, the most covered up story in media history is he didn't do the job, he was incapable of functioning more than two hours a day. they lied about it, didn't pursue it, ridiculed people that brought it up. it's beginning to come out but that will be the biggest story. that's why the media is on

their heels, writing checks to the trump foundation and library and cbs will be the next to write it. they doctored an interview to make kamala harris look good. if you have problems with the media, present company excluded, you have to look at how they didn't cover the last four years. stuart: untold story but it is going to be told. thanks a lot. see you again soon. just ahead on this program, guy benson takes on democrats protesting elon musk's access to treasury department payments, they say nobody elected him. charles payne on china serving an investigation into apps store practices. it's all getting mixed up with the china trade fight. tomi lahren on the executive order to keep men out of women's sports. border guy on a gun battle erupting on the mexican side of the border. 11:00 hour of "varney and company" is next.

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