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february -- 11:00 eastern thursday, february 6. have a look at big tech, please, they're all over the place this morning. yes, they are. nvidia, amazon, microsoft up, google, apple down. 10 year treasury and they have the yield just well under 4.5% at 443. now this, they still hate trump but these days they hate elon musk even more. the left is spewing its anger on to the street and this is ugly. the extremists are using the kind of language that proceeded the assassination attempts on donald trump. look at this ... >> what elon musk is doing is illegal. it is a coup. >> elon musk makes unsafe cars and wants to create an unsafe world. >> we will not set up, we'll

stand up and speak up for that same spirit that elon musk has coming from southed after reigns leading chasm we're not having apartheid in america anymore. >> who the hell does musk think he is? he has absolutely no right in shutting down usaid. we cannot allow that. we've got to take to the streets. stuart: oh, dear. they can't ups the effectiveness and that's savaging the left's sacred counts. you heard from a california democrat th shouting about muske takeover of -- musk's takeover of usaid. here's a partial list of the spending. $1 million in gender support in

bangladesh, 7 million for syrian democratic support, 1.9 million for gwath mallen transgender support, 1.8 million for lgbtq in honduras and 19 million assisting nigh grants in columbia and 44 million for food assistants for venezuela migrants. goes on and on. i wanted a long list, ashley. this is what gets democrats screaming in the streets? if it wasn't so dangerous, it would be laughable. they never learn. over the top trump hatred hurt them in the november election. overthe top hatred will have the same effect and they should be looking for common ground that units us. can't we all agree with a $36 trillion national debt, cutting wasteful spend sergeant a good thing. that cutting un-productive government workers makes sense that deporting criminal aliens is vital. instead, they keep shouting nobody elected elon musk. they've conveniently forgotten that biden was so out of it that unelected bureaucrats ran the country and ran it into the

ground. musk is simply repairing the damage. third hour of varney starts now. ♪ stuart: mark thiessen with us this morning. did all this trump hatred backfire like in the election? >> 100%. think about this, donald trump had a swing state sweep and won the popular vote, and he has unified control of government, and the democrats have decided that their path to overcome that and return to power is the hill to die on is saving foreign aid, which is the least popular kind of spending that the u.s. -- unit government does. so -- united states government does and that wisdom makes me scratch my head. second of all, it's a weird thing to say about the most -- the richest man in the world, but elon musk is just a staffer. he's a staffer in the trump

administration. he works in in the white house for donald trump and so he's not shutting down aid. donald trump is shutting down aid. he's doing it on his authority that he was given in the mandate election and musk is executing for him. that whole musk hatred is weird. stuart: it's outrageous and danger astable. former house democrat tim ryan, he slammed senator schumer over the now viral video of minority leader screaming at usaid rally. ryan saying, "does anyone really think this is the future of the country? this is the only alternative to trump's america? it's just so depressing". that's ryan. they're fighting amongst themselves, marc. >> yeah, what's nassau county nating is the democrats are standing in front of usaid saying this is the end of the world.

know whose idea was to shut down aid and fold into the state department? warren christopher, bill clinton's secretary of state. warren christopher put forward a plan to shut down usaid in 1995 and u.s. information agency and form them into a super stat department and al gore killed it during his reforming government plan, and my old boss, senator jesse helms revived it, and passed a law eliminating the first two and putting usaid under secretary of state and why marco rubio has the power to fold into the state. joe biden cosponsored that bill. it was the helms biden bill that gave marco rubio the authority that aid administrators answer to s secretary of state. this is warren christopher's idea executed by jesse helms and joe biden that marco rubio and donald trump are executing and the democrats are having ann

an aneurysm. stuart: i didn't know that. thank you, marc. back to the market, dow down 100 and nasdaq eking out small and s&p up 7. ryan payne with us this morning. you're saying, hey, it's the consumer, not ai that's powering the economy. >> yeah, sometimes we forget because we talk about ai every week and hundreds of billions spent on ai but the american consumer that drives this economy and # 0% of the economy is americans love to spend money and do it really, really well. stuart: is ai driving the market? >> the market -- top stocks are driving the market and mag 7 driven the market and moving forward, this last leak a bit, it's not really going to be the picks and shovels of ai that will drive the market moving forward. it's going to be all the companies that benefit from using ai. liker i blew your mind last week

talking about rob bots making sackmary -- robots making salads and i think you were more shocked that people ate salads for lunch. and the 493 not the magnificent seven arnold the ai trade, it's the efficiencies in their business. palantir, it's a company that analyzes your data and makes your company more efficient using a lot of ai, and they talked about how commode advertised that's becoming too and insurance carrier, multinational insurance carrier and taking underwriting process down from two weeks to three hours. think about that. those kind of efficiencies across all different companies are increasing profit margins, and i think that's where the real opportunity is. you know, we think ai and have to buy the ai stocks, but they're really, really overbid at this point and can keep going higher in the short term. to win the war and not the battle, look at every other company. stuart: that's fascinating. everybody is talking about palantir these days. the thing's gone to the moon

over $100 a share today. >> trades like 200 times forward earnings and maybe a bit pricey and it's become the darling and speaks to the software companies building on top of these ai platforms, just like the companies that built on the internet that became that next wave, and i think that's what you're seeing now just like back in the late 99s, 2000 decade. stuart: thank you, mark payne. see you soon. >> yes, sir. stuart: thanks. lauren, come in, please. i want to talk phillip morris, 8% up. what's going on? lauren: could be a record high. they lifted 2025 profit forecast and strong demand for smoking alternative like zyn nicotine pacts. >> highly addictive. stuart: are they? >> yes. maybe i had a act for a bit but yes. stuart: moving on. hilton hotels. lauren: profit up on rebound in business travel. hilton says they're seeing higher bookings for corporate

meetings, conventions that's driving room rates up. good for the stock and they say big banks and big tech companies are meaningfully outperforming. stuart: another stock close to a record high, ralph lauren. lauren: yeah. attracting more young shoppers and they're selling a lot of sweater withs the bears but they're very trendy and raising forecast and betting on floral dinner jackets for men. stuart: floral dinner jackets? lauren: yes, stuart: okay. lauren: three consumer stocks at record highs and they're consumer stocks. stuart: lauren, thank you. army recruitments saw record breaking numbers in january and pete hegseth calls it the trump effect. >> the moral of the military is sky high for two k reasons. two key reasons and want to serve under a commander in chief that they know will have their back and number two, they're defending our homeland. stuart: there's a report from the pentagon on that coming up. ron johnson all in favor of elon

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stuart: in the last two months, the army saw record recruitment numbers. jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer, pete hegseth said this is a trump surge. what say you?

>> it's complicated and look at numbers, army reported record breaking recruiting numbers in december 2024 with nearly 350 learfield img cross-suits enlisting daily totaling about 70,000 the highest in years the army struggled with recruiting numbers since covid include ago short fall of 15,000 in 2022. defense secretary hegseth, as you mentioned, stu, attributed the increase to america first leadership. senator tom cotton also suggested it had to do with the election. >> i don't think it's rocket science. it's the trump effect. you have some number of young men and women that didn't want to join the army over the last four years under joe biden is christine, the former secretary of the army when it was focused on wokeness and dei and climate change. young men and women join the military because they love the country. >> the truth is a little more complicated and former army secretary dismissed the claims

stating "the data does not show that young americans do not want to join the army because they think the army is woke. the army data shows up tick in recruiting started a year ago peaking in august 2024 before the election". august had higher recruiting numbers than december and by september 2024 before the election, the army announce it had had exceeded its recruiting goals and the ground work was laid in october 2023. that's when secretary war moot and the army chief began a sweeping initiative to help those who did not meet the economic tan schoolyards or fitness requirements and it's a six week proboot camp called future soldier prep course and meeting enlistment standards and moving from recruiting in high schools to job message boards, recruiters got trained by amazon, wells fargo and other trifoliate industry leaders in talent acquisition and be all

you can be branding campaign from the 1980s and last year saw a 17% increase in female recruits and the highest recruiting numbers ever for the hispanic community. "u.s. army recruiting command is on track to exceed the fiscal year 2025 recruitment, goal of 61,000 new soldiers and an additional 10,000 in the delayed entry program". stu, it's too soon to tell if the election had impact on the improved recruiting num numbersd they're certainly moving in the right direction and army set to expand the basic training capacity this spring. stuart. stuart: so long moving in the right direction. jennifer griffin, thank you very much. bankers are melting down over the administration usaid and senator ron johnson from wisconsin joining me now. senator, dismantling usaid is the tip of the iceberg. what's coming next? >> well, hopefully dramatically lowered prepandemic spending levels.

we have to do that. we spent $4.4 trillion in 2019 and shot up to 6.6. no family would experience illness and buy out medical and if they got well and keep borrowing and expanding that level and that's insane what the federal government did and spend on average 6.5 trillion and. it's prepandemic levels and it's entirely possible to do and we have a number of options and one of them based on what we spent in 1999 increase in social security and medicare interest. we'd be spending $5.5 trillion and matches what biden is projecting in revenue. we'd have a balanced budget and it's reasonable and elmore nathanial hackettely possible to

do. eminently possible to do and convince the colleagues in washington dc to balance the budget and it'll blow up in our face if we don't. stuart: trump administration suing chicago and state of illinois and ice arrests and deportadeportations and attorney general pam bondi going to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities. the sanctuary era coming to a close. what say you. >> let's hope so. they recognize the clear and open border of biden open border policies and i for one am very happy with how president trump is bold, he's swift action and decisive action to secure a border to make -- to honor the prosperities he made during the campaign and a lot of americans appreciate that fact. stuart: what do you make of the

anti-musk, the musk hatred that you see on the streets among democrats? >> they don't like when people start pointing out the corruption within big government and don't want to shrink big government so that's what elon is all about and what i want to do and going here for reconciliation. stuart: going to help you cut spending too. senator ron johnson from wisconsin, thank you, sir. see you again real soon. now this, a group of house republicans are pushing to include massive spending cuts in the trump budget, ashley, how much are we talking about here? ashley: how about $2.5 trillion. a lot of money. that's how much a group of gop house lawmakers would like to see cut at a very minimum but those lawmakers are reportedly frustrated for concrete plan in your mind and in place from a republican leadership and led to several heated exchanges and

making wednesday and one house republicans say gop lawmakers are fed up "waiting for a play call". there's concern that the senate is getting impatient with the house and moving forward with its own plan if the house doesn't release one first, which house republicans worry will include less substantial checks and house trying to pass a broader ray of reconciliation and more funding for the border security from eliminating on tips and wages and they're all trying to get on the same page but cut cut cut is the message. stu. stuart: i hear it, ashley, thank you very much. california governor newsom met with trump at white house and wants federal aid to rebuild after the la fires. should that money have strings attached to it? we'll ask california guy real estate expert next. ♪

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stuart: dow down 70 and nasdaq

up 46. not that much movement in prices so far today, but we have tesla moving. down again i believe, yeah another 3.5%, 365. what's the story? lauren: sales down across europe in january and 63% in france and sharply lower in uk and germany and elon musk pivoting towards robots announcing 12 new positions engineering roles and optimist and team in fremont, california. stuart: looking at arm holdings and they were up and now it's down. lauren: the forecast is slightly disappointing and they make the technology inside all of the smart phones sold in the world but if the forecast doesn't wow these days, that's what happens. stuart: all right. administration is canceling the government's subscription to certain media outlets.

intriguing. mike emmanuel joining us. which outlets and why the cancellations? >> stu, due to trump administration scrutiny and politico under the microscope. >> i can confirm that the more than 8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing dollars to politico on american taxpayer's dime will no longer be happened. >> elon musk writing on x not efficient use of taxpayer funds for wasteful expenditure deleted and also scrutiny on public broadcasting outlets like national public radio and pbs and on that musk says "defund npr, it should survive on its own". new fcc chair brendan carr and pbs on notice. "i'm writing to inform you i've asked fcc bureau to open an investigation regarding npr and pbs programming across your broadcast member stations. carr says it is now a new era at

the fcc. >> we want to get to the core mission and reigning in big tech and it'll be take ago look at media and making sure they live up to public interest obli obligation. >> president trump reacted on truth social and going for a level never seen before and cbs should lose its license and cheaters at 60 minutes should all be thrown out and this disreputable news terminated and the 60 minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful. stuart: mike, thank you very much indeed. president trump met with gavin newsom at the white house and newsom wants more federal aid to rebuild after the la fires. listen to what president trump said this morning about sending water to california. >> i opened the flood gate as

few days ago and water comes down from the northwestern parts of canada and the pacific northwest, and it comes down by millions and millions of barrels a day. and i opened it up. should have happened. i told him to do it in my last term, they didn't do it but now we just did it. stuart: now he did it. we have a celebrity real estate agent and the founder of -- and ceo of agency. mauricio joining me now. should the aid come with conditions for the fire victims and what conditions do you want to see in >> how you doing, stuart? hope you're doing good. the fire aid should not come with conditions and the neighborhoods have been absolutely devastated and they're real people and tax paying people, and we're dealing with them on a daily basis and

amount of pain they're going through is incredible and administration should never have happened. at these levels and -- stuart: are taxpayers entitled to a word about what california has got to do to get the money. surely put conditions under -- for example on cleaning and irrigating the forests. and ending coastal commission. can we place conditions at any kind and have to fork out the money. >> we shouldn't fork out the money and opportunity for the republican party to show that we can meet in the middle, and to negotiate and that's where i was heading with that and it's a opportunity to put some conditions on the relief but it should almost be separated. i think trump's amazing at this. and he'll know how to negotiate this deal the best, but it is a opportunity to show california that it's generally been a democratic state that we're

willing to meet in the middle and help and there should definitely be conditions. this can never happen again and need to prevent this in the future. stuart: earlier in the morning we had a realize developer on the show big in california, florida and new york and suggested that trump should demand using voter id cards for example in california in the future. end sanctuary state status and quit funding homeless state camps and clean and irrigate the forests and political conditions and see the way open to political conditions for the aid? >> there's a opportunity to create that and i don't understand why we don't have voter ided inner to vote in california. it just makes all the sense in the world. but again we're going to take care of our citizens for taxpayer citizens going to be very cautious asking for the conditions and i think there's a path to have conditional aid and

at the end of the day, we have to take care of the people and hopefully find that balance and i think that's one of the things that's happening today is not finding middle or balance and i heap we can do that and i hope we can help the people and hope we can make california better and not deal with this again. stuart: those thousands of people that lost their homes, have they lost their wealth forever? >> in a lot of cases, yes. they've lost their wealth forever and they're not well insured or under insured and going to rebuild and it's an absolute menace and people are devastated and don't know what to do right now. there's a lot of questions and very few answers still. stuart: got it. thank you so much for joining us this morning. we'll understand the position that la is in with deep sympathy. mauricio, thank you very much. now this, president trump targeting california's high

speed rail project. what is trump proposed to do. ashley: high speed and the president wants to know why it's billions over budget and years behind in completion and calling it one of the worst manic projects he's seen and opening the investigation into the failure himself. now, the bullet train as you call it between san francisco and los angeles was approved by voters all the way back in 2008 with a cost of $45 billion with a completion date scheduled for 2020. the price tag has now ballooned to $128 billion and there's no estimated completion date. the california high speed rail authority is pushing back against trump saying, hey, every dollar has been accounted for but the president says the project is hundreds of billions over budget and he wants to know where. by the way, he said, stu, every passenger that should be

traveling that train today could be limod from san francisco to la and back and still have money leftover. >> stuart: yes, typical trump comment, a teacher tis playing a crucifix in her classroom for ten years placed on administrative leave and the cross has to go the district says. we'll get into that. this morning at national prayer breakfast and renewed emphasis on faith. >> god has always been the ultimate source of strength and beats in the hearts of our nation. we have to bring religion back. stuart: well, our next guest credits her relationship with god for giving her drive. our guest is miss america, abby stargard and she'll join us next with her message on faith. ♪

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stuart: two hours and ten minutes into the trading session and going to be con cel sen traited at four or five stocks and nasdaq up just 21 points. toll hour show starting at 12, noon and taylor riggs here for us. what do you have for us today, taylor? >> stu, we call it d day for doge. thousands of federal employees are expected to take their money and run in just over 12 hours and democrats are angry. they're not happy with elon musk and the good news is you heard from scott bessent and we have a spending not revenue problem in the country and that bay cross-suit -- buyout problem and they're here to help discuss all the issues. stuart: thank you very much indeed.

miss america turning heads on one of the inaugural balls on custom make america healthy again dress, there you have it. left on side of screen. supporter of rfk jr. with a dress like that, make america healthy again. why do you like him again. >> it's a great honor to heat him and one of the many, many thousands people that are concerned with health practices. i support the underlining message of a unifying one and needs a focus on all the proper basics that are needed to improve the overall health and well being of americans. for auburn university and it's a personal matter and i spent so much time in the hospital doing my clinicals and i've seen firsthand that the medical community is overwhelmed with some of the preventable ailments caused by unhealthy practices and i think if the maha movement

is bringing attention to the issues, i welcome that awa awars and continue addressing the food, amount of physical activity and stress levels and getting adequate amount of sleep every night and working to practice mindfulness. little things we have truly experience a longer and healthier life. stuart: a national prayer breakfast in dc. listen to what he had to say about bringing religion back into school. >> earliest days of republic, faith in god was always the ultimate source of strengthening beats in the hearts of our nation. we have to bring religion back. bring it back. you can't be a happy without religion and going for them. [ applause ].

bring religion and god back into our lives. stuart: abby, what do you make of that, unity through faith. >> i love that because i'm driven by my faith, and i think our world is broken and i think we're more polarized than ever before. i know that as miss america, i'm only one american and i think the lord put me in this position. i get to be a source of light and inspiration for others and having the opportunity to invest in other people. i think our nation is so quick to blame or to judge others and obviously that gets us nowhere and i think we have to start reaching across the aisle to do what is best for all americans, not just people that leave the same things as we do. believe the same things we do. something that's always stuck with me is what mlk once said and that he longed for the day where his children were judged not based off of the color of their skin but content of their

character, and i think our nation needs to remember this message and remember that regardless of the color of someone's skin or what they believe or how they identify themselves. every single person deserves the chance to be treated fairly and with respect. stuart: nicely put and thank you for bringing that message to our program. we really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. stuart: we wish you well, thank you. a teacher working in connecticut public schools for more than 30 years has been placed on paid administrative leave. lauren, this is about displaying the crucifix for years in her classroom. lauren: there was no problem for ten years. she hung the crucifix next to her desk in class for a decade. late last year, she was told hey, you got to remove it. so she did. then she thought about it and said it's a matter of personal conscious for me and put it back up. she was suspended for two days and put on paid leave later. that was in middle of december

and remains on paid leave. the contribute says this public display of the cross is a problem. and they also say she uses religious reference ifs her teachings. she teaches seventh grade social studies and sued some of the school officials in federal court claiming they violated her free speech and free exercise of religious rights. this remind me of the case ten years ago, the football coach. washington state was praying on the field and he lost his job, he was fired. that case went all the way up to the supreme court, and he got his job back. stuart: yes he did, i remember that. see what happen withs the teacher. coming up, shawn hannity and bret baier teaming up for a super bowl promo. here's a sneak peek, watch this. >> how do you think the story will play out? >> two close to call. >> five minutes to air. >> go big -- >> or go home.

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stuart: fox is getting an exclusive look at security preparations for the super bowl. garret tenny joining us from new orleans. what are they doing to make us safe? reporter: stu, it's really impressive to see the amount of resources in manpower and going to be brought to new orleans to help secure the super bowl. today we're along the mississippi river with cbp agents as they patrol the waters looking for anything suspicious. in the air, you also have black hawk helicopters that are

patrolling the skies over the stadium as well as french quarter. you've also got bear cat armored vehicles and a very heavy police presence all across the city. more than two dozen federal agencies on the ground along with more than 2,000 law enforcement officers that beefed up security presence is in response to the new year's terror attack on bourbon street. and that is where we met up with the special agent in charge leading the federal coordination for security and he told us that new year's attack prompted them to make some adjustments to their plans. >> this is the most organized and secure super bowl and most secure event i've seen. we'd be foolish if we didn't learn and use what happened on january 1 to inform how we make changes and the super bowl and mar it grady trimble and every -- mardi gras and every other plan going forward. reporter: he says with all of the extra resources that have been brought in, not only will

it be the most secure super bowl that has ever taken place, new orleans this week is the safest place that anyone could be so that fans can just focus on the game. stu. stuart: got it, thanks very much indeed, garret. listen to what kansas city chiefs super stars patrick mahomes and travis kelce had to say about president trump attending the big game. >> it's always cool to be able to play in front of a sitting president, someone that is at the top position in our country. it's cool to hear that he's seen me play football and respects the game that i play. >> it's awesome. it's a great honor. i think, you know, no matter who the president is, i know i'm excited because it's the biggest game of my life, you know. having the president there, you know, it's the best country in the world so would be pretty cool. stuart: joining me is former nfl player jake bequette, he was part of the super bowl team in

2016. what do you think of president trump being at the big game? it's a terrific student turnovers and him. >> one of the highest profile events in the world if not the number one and good to hear patrick and travis say that about president trump and good to see a lot of nfl players and celebrities kind of getting on the winning team. it shows momentum and energy on the right. just to tell you a quick story i was in dc for inauguration, and snoop dogg was the headline performer at one of the events that friday night. eight years ago, snoop dogg was posting mock aidoo structure and support nation event -- mock assassination events of president trump and then he's headlining an event. things have changed and makes me optimistic for the future and for better or worse, we're a media and celebrity driven culture and media and celebrity types are coming to our side, that's a very good thing. stuart: i'm looking for the crowd reaction when they first see president trump appearing.

i'm pretty sheergoing to be chance of usa, usa. that's what we're going to see. what do you say? >> i agree. as those two players said, it's a special event when the sitting president is in attendance. obviously donald trump has a huge base of support in louisiana and definitely in philadelphia and kansas city too. so it would shock me if there were not a bunch of usa chances, stu. stuart: media chief brian rollup has predicted this game has a chance to be the most watched super bowl ever. see about that. why don't you tell us who you think is going to win. >> i'm going to pick the chiefs and i agree it'll be a highly watched matchup and you have the chiefs going for history. they want to be the first team in incomes fl history to win three consecutive super bowls. there are very good reasons why it's not happens and they're a very good team and going with the sheafs chiefs with the best

quarterback in the game and very well coach and going with history this weekend and we'll see how it goes but i'm picking the kansas city chiefs. stuart: got it, before we close, i have a question for you. remember, i was not born in america, i've lived here for 50 years, but i've always known or been told that everyone hates the patriots, is that true? >> not at ultimately. i think people hated the patriots initially but just kind of that momentum thing i was talking about earlier. everybody wants to be associated with the winner. so when tom brady became the best player in the game and the patriots started winning four, five, six super bowls, you know, people, even people that once hated the patriots and the jets were our big rival in new york and jets fans that once hated us saying i respect you guys. stuart: okay. jake, you're for the chief this is sunday and we'll be watching. jake bequette, thanks for being on the show. good to see you. thank as lot. here it is, the thursday trivia

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stuart: what color are earth's skies. are they really blue the way they look, blue, red, orange, violet? what your answer? ashley: if they are red we are in trouble. i think orange or violet. violet number 4. lauren: let's get in trouble, red number 2. stuart: i will go with violet. i'm sure violet is the answer. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. it turns out the sky is violet, the blue skies due to two factors, how sunlight interact with earth's that is here and our eyes perceive that light, now you know. time is up for us, that's it for "varney and company". another great show in the record books i do believe, "the big money show" starts shortly, actually starts now.