♪ stuart: that is new york city, and it looks real pretty, doesn't it? step outside and it's absolutely freezing cold. this was 16 degrees when i walked outside today. good morning, everyone. it's 10:00 eastern. get to the money, please. there's a bunch of red ink. not that much. dow off 150 and nasdaq down 60 points. u.s. treasury, 10 year treasury yield well above 4.5% and not going down well on wall street. 455 right now. price of oil moving up a bit. 72.90 as we speak. bitcoin not doing much, # 5,700. that's the markets and now this. hat's off to sean hannity, trump and musk side by side one month

into the resolution. on the president's orders, elon musk and doge guys have turned the federal government inside outside and hannity brought them together to explain what's going on. what emerged from the interview was inside look at relationship between the world's most powerful man and world's richest man. they appear to be friends and seem to enjoy each other's company and more importantly they see eye to eye on their great enterprise, when is reigning in the cost ovpower and government bureaucracy. the government and media trying to pull them apart. they want to put a wedge between them because musk is gutting their sacred cows and exposing wasteful, reckless spending going on for decades. of course they want to delegitimize the trump/musk combo because for the first time we have a president who really is committed to trimming the fat and partner capable of doing the job. they're not rivals or competing with each other. they're happily working together and during the interview, musk

explained he's the president tech support and elected president issues executive orders and musk makes sure they get done. there's no conflict there and they're not fighting each other as the media suggests. musk believes he and the president can find and end a trillion worth of waste and fraud. they're off to a good start. they've exposed democrats and media allies as yesterday's people, foolishly defending a bloated bureaucracy and they've become the pro fraud party and no wonder trump and musk are smiling. second hour of varney -- we're just warming up. stuart: well, look who's here, fortunately liz peek has arrived in nigh city. democrats have been exposed and that's my basic point, liz. >> that's totally right. what is musk doing? he's turning over rocks and finding the worms, what he calls a ball of worms that exist underneath.

look, i can't -- stuart, i cannot understand how every democrat is not getting on board with this, particularly when you're discovering the tens of billions of dollars are being paid out in social security checks to people who are dead and have been dead for many years, what does that tell people? a, that the system is really broken, we need technology. that tech support thing is very real and one thing that elon musk is bringing to the white house is new technology bringing into a lot of these agencies and haven't had a tech upgrade for 20 years, 40 years in some cases. it's really horrifying and you could not be doing what they're doing going through billions of checks written by the treasury et cetera without ai. this is a coming together of many things right now, including tech, including this brilliant elon musk who donald trump is very lucky to have elon musk on his team. musk is lucky to have donald

trump putting him in the place where he can do so much good. it's amazing to me and democrats are reflexively negative and resistant and is that stupid? stuart: politically not a good move. stuart: title is vance is right about free speech and that's eu and u.s. leftist so mad. is free speech under attack in europe? >> he's stoatly right about that and recent l laws in scotland, switzerland, germany, austria and basically make it a crime to insult somebody online and repost an insult online. you can go to jail for these things and be fined in germany and in switzerland, someone went to 60 day sentence -- sentenced to jail for 60 days for calling someone a fat lesbian online and that's apparently against the law. boy, half of america would be in

jail if we were awe l lowed to insult people online. it's a very serious thing and advance talking about collusion and skewing e i leks and, stuart, in germany on sunday there's an election and the establishment is horrified by. schultz, the chancellor has approval rating of under 30, he's in big trouble and far right afd party very well could win this election outright. it'll be very interesting to see how they handle that because in romania as vance mentioned just recently, they cancelled election and far right won and they said it was russian interference and stay tuned but by the way, americans are right to call this out and we're right to watch what's happening in our country and not long ago that the government tried to put in place the government disinformation bureau, under biden, and it was so attacked

they took it down after three weeks. many you have al gore and hillary clinton and all these people saying oh, the real problem is misinformation not enough fact checking online. we're up and listening and it's a bad, bad trend. stuart: thank you very much, liz. see you soon. >> thanks very ifing me. stuart: alexandria ocasio-cortez ripped advance for the free speech address in munich. lauren: she didn't like it. she writes, jd vance, you lied to the world in munich. stuart: what? lauren: yeah, last week f. this administration believed in free speech, as you claim, its leaders not threatening members of congress with criminal investigations for educating the public about constitutional rights. she's referring to two things. that would be tom homan threatening her with potential department of justice investigation for telling illegal immigrants for how they can evade ice and said that's a

violation of my free speech and hypocritical for the vice president telling the world they're upholding free speech and slamming europe for venn correspondentship where at home they're limiting -- censoring free speech and at home they're limiting it. vance and aoc are polar opposite and she doesn't think you should have kids because it contributes to climate change and she's very pro family. stuart: she said recently that elon musk is the dumbest billionaire she's ever heard of. that's kind of hard to take that one. thank you, lauren. check those markets why don't you. dow up about 120 points and nasdaq down 80 point-blank layups this is morning. mike lee is with us, okay. are you still mr. super bull, mike lee? >> stuart, i don't know if i've ever been more bullish and we're seeing new highs across the board in market both widening so the number of stocks hitting new

highs worldwide is exploding. yesterday we got an all time new high from xlk, which is technology sector. xlf, which is the financial sector, and the s&p 500. while this is happening, there's no irrational exuberance and people are scared and aaii bull bear survey has very low sentiment at the moment. nobody is pounding the table saying this is an unbelievable market rally. so when you keep getting new highs, typically means one thing: more new highs and when you tack on this bearish set want on top -- sentiment on top, nobody like it is and everyone is bullish is when i'll be bearish. stuart: does the market need a trump tax cut on this and going to get the trump tax cuts extended. what say you? >> yeah, absolutely, stuart.

we can't cut spending and may lose the election and need all the goodies and that's one of the biggest bold-faced lies and people caring about the goodies are donors and not voters and american public wants inflation to slow down and we need fiscal discipline from the party supposed to be about fiscal discipline and if they had used fiscal discipline in the last two years instead of adopting nancy pelosi and joe biden's budget, they'll have a majority. unless they learn how to cut spending, they'll be in a minority if two years and stop worrying about the donors but worry about the voters. stuart: we hear you and will have you back soon. thank you, mike lee. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: some of the stocks moving this morning. going to start with hims and hers. lauren: up 15%. stuart: that's a big gain. lauren: telehealth company. they've acquired at home lab

testing company called tribe labs. what that does is you want to test your cholesterol at home? no problem. it expands accessibility and affordability of whole body testing for those who subscribe. i don't know the cost. but it also gives the company data. your blood. and that they plug into the ai systems and if you're helpful about this, this is how we -- hopeful about this, this is how we begin to treat and cure disease. stuart: i am hopeful about that. good use of ai. workday. lauren: speaking of ai, it's automation for human resources and they've abandoned buy rating for the first time since covid and cut from buy to equal weight and price target 330-275. stuart: there's arista networks. lauren: meta, facebook, big client, and they're using them less. that is overshadowing a 20% jump in annual revenue for arista

down 8%. stuart: is that because of ai and dropping a bit? lauren: just using other systems i believe. stuart: thanks very much. still ahead, treasury secretary scott bessent explaining important of building economic partnership with ukraine. watch. >> the ukrainian people that we support them, show the american people that the money that is going in to ukraine, there's going to be a return and there's going to be a long term partnership. stuart: we're going to bring you more on administration's plan to end the war with russia a bit later in the show. msnbc contributor chris matthews naming names and demanding that the democrats take on trump's so-called firing squad. we'll tell you who he's calling out on the left. so long student loan handouts and federal appeals court blocked biden era program. why the judge has decided with the seven republican states. ♪

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stuart: goldman sox and home depot and both dow and both saving 28 points off the dow industrials. without the two stocks, it's not that bad. tomorrow, hamas releasing bodies of four hostages, including a baby and toddler. six more living hostages released on saturday. greg palkot joining us from tel aviv. greg, tell us about the living hostages that will be released. reporter: stuart, that is a gripping story, and it will get the focus of the entire nation, if not the world, on saturday. let's talk about what we'll be

seeing tomorrow first. as you noted, to be handed over the remains of four deceased hostages, including mother and her two young sons. gafir, remember, stuart, was only 9 months old when the family was captured october 7. hamas claims they were killed in an israeli air strike, that's unconfirmed by israel. remember, just released at the beginning of this month, the huhs and father of the -- husband and father of the family, he's been aware of the reports of the loss of his family, but relatives say he still clings to hope and, yes, on saturday an accelerated release of remaining six living hostages in this ceasefire phase. majority of the men in 20s and 30s captured on october 7 and two others held by hamas for ten years after crossing into gaza. as for phase two, it'll a complete withdrawal of israeli

military and elimination of hamas as a terror group and release of just about all the remaining hostages and israel named a negotiating team and delayed talks supposed to be starting it week in qatar but with stake sos high, there's been more posturing than talking, stuart. finally secretary of state rubio wrapping up mideast tour in abu dhabi today and raised again the plan of president trump to take over gaza, rebuild it, and displaced palestinians. uae is latest country to push back on that approach. a lot of activity, a lot of uncertainty in the region. back to you, stu. stuart: greg palkot, thank you very much. now this, russia's foreign minister has begun to move away from "the edge of the abyss" where biden's relationship led their relationship. we have george joining us. we seem to have a new relationship with putin. do you trust him? >> i don't think we need to

trust putin in order to explore what a new relationship might look like and russia's readiness to have a more normal relationship with the united states. i think we went through this in the cold war. we established a working relationship with soviet union to cooperate in areas of common interest such as arms control and other things, and i think we can do that with the russians today. doesn't mean we have to trust putin and means we can verify that we're taking steps that each are comfortable with as we move forward. stuart: are these the peace talks? >> i think there is but not yet. this has got to be a sequence set of steps to bring ukraine toward peace. the initial part of this, it really has to do with the united states and russia exploring their respective geopolitical interests. that sets a context in which the

ukraine war can be settled, and the europeans will have a role in this once we get to that part of this process. stuart: there's demands to hold a peace deal. watch this. >> russia wants to force ukraine to hold new elections in order to assign any kind of peace deal. is that something that the u.s. would ever support? >> we have marshall law in ukraine, essentially marshall law in ukraine, where the lyddane ukraine, i mean i hate to say it, he's down at 4% approval rating. and the country blown to smither renos. if they -- sm smith rennes and s been a long time since we've had an election. that's not a russia thing. stuart: why would president trump want an election in ukraine if that election could be so easily manipulated by

russia. >> not sure it can be easily manipulated by russia and very unpopular with a lot of ukrainians for obvious reasons and russias ha limited ability to sway the outcome of the election. the elections in ukraine lies in two areas. one is we need to make sure that any deal to end this war has deep support of ukrainian people and elections is one way of ensuring that. the other part of this is that ukraine should at some point move toward membership in the european union. it's not going to be a part of nato. that's already clear. but it should be a part of the european union and to do that it has to conform with eu democracy standards and holding elections is a big part of that. that. stuart: got it. george beebe, you know what you're talking about and always appreciate that. see you again soon. thank you. treasury secretary scott bessent spoke to bret baier about his

visit to ukraine. what did he say about the rare earth minerals, deal? lauren: the treasury secretary presented president zelensky a joint venture, a deal to share ukraine's iron tie tianaup, uranium -- iron, titanium, and uranium as compensation for the war aid. >> what was the reception from zelensky? he didn't sign anything with us yet; right? >> bret, i think he will. i think that once the ukrainians understand that is a long term agreement. it's very beneficial to their security, very strong signal to the russians that the -- we take our interest in ukraine very seriously. it's very important to the american people to know where their tax dollars have gone and over the long term with u.s. interest on the ground there, it will act as a security deterrent when this crisis ends.

lauren: he's optimistic that zelensky will sign on and ukraine wants security guarantees. instead of boots on the ground, is a security guarantee the economic interest that the u.s. has in the area. stuart: got it. complex stuff. thank you very much. it's the dynamic relationship that everybody is talking about, that is president trump and elon musk. watch. >> winning the election is really the opportunity to fix the system. when these attacks occur, they're accusing the administration of what they're guilty of. stuart: ben domenech has a lot to say about that and we've got him on deck. do you remember this, it was a meltdown over trump and ivf treatments. >> under donald trump and jd vance's policies and proposals of course, we would see total bans on ivf around the country. >> he's also opposed to contraception. he's also opposed to ivf. stuart: what nonsense. they were wrong. trump just made ivf more

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stuart: treasury secretary bessent just confirmed he will not be attending the g20 meeting in south africa. secretary of state rubio previously confirmed he's not going to attend either. on the markets this morning, still have the red ink for the dow industrials. goldman sachs contributing some of the loss down 140. s&p, nasdaq both on the downside. ashley is ebbing whiching out se movers. ashley, start with tesla, up 2.5%. ashley: great, because that's what i have, stu a. couple of items for you and tesla rising after analysts showed the stock trading at a fraction of the market potential, the analyst also like the odds of tesla giving the green light for autonomous driving in the u.s.. meantime, remember that musk's pay package still has a chance of being approved. tesla's law firm drafted a bill in delaware that could revive

that massive $55.8 billion payout for the ceo of tesla, stock up 2.5%. take a look at luxury brand owner tapestry moving lower today after selling its shoe brand that's being bought by the dr. schols people. take a look at chipotle, expensive beans and rice people as s stu calls them and hiring 120,000 new employees for busy spring months between march and may. burrito season. that in my books is 12 months of the year. stuart: thanks, ash, federal appeals court blocked biden administration program for student loan handouts. edward lawrence at the white house joining us now. on what grounds did they reject biden's plan and second question: are people going to have to start paying those loans

again? reporter: yeah, the second question is, yes, they're going to have to start paying the loans and at the higher rate. this is the save plan. eighth circuit court of appeals created a plan about income driven repayment by the biden administration. this allowed the person to have a reduced payment, monthly payment, to repay their loans and made is easier for loans with smaller balances to be forgiven and pen wharton model said the save plan costing about $550 billion of taxpayer money over ten years and would have added to the federal debt and republicans working through the budget process in congress are seeking costs. listen. >> what we did was tie to importantly finding cuts necessary to reduce the government spending that's perpetuating the inflation tax on americans. we did a good job doing that and by the way, student loans, all the ev mandates and all the green new deal subsidies, and

lots of things to cut. we can actually have medicaid so everybody can maintain the benefits and can be more efficient. reporter: democrats sticking to asking americans to pay more to afford government subsidies. listen to this. >> republican majority proposing 2 trillion in spending cuts and significant decreases komed cade, aca, food assistance, student loans and sustainable energy programs. cuts that will make it harder on working families to afford college, to access healthcare, and to put food on the table. reporter: the judge's ruling means the save plan would go awin back-to-back and higher payments for student loans is what people have to repay again. in a separate court case a judge rule that had doge had the ability to look at department of education's financial sheets. the department of education is already as you know gotten rid of $350 million worth of woke

incentive programs. back to you. stuart: edward, thank you very much. now this. sean hannity sat down with president trump and elon musk and discuss their plans to up end the federal bureaucracy. got to watch. >> it's a opportunity to fix the system. it's not fixing the system itself. it's a opportunity to fix the system and restore the power of democracy and it's funny how often -- when these attacks occur, they're accusing the administration of is what they're guilty of. they're saying that things are unconstitutional and what they're doing is unconstitutional. they're guilty of the crime of which they accuse us. stuart: are we about to see four years of democrats versus doge in the courts presumably? >> i think we absolutely are, stuart.

i think one of the benefits of how rapidly they're moving through this process is that it's teeing up the court cases and resolved for the coming month and coming years and this is based on a number of different conservative proposals over the past several decades that have gone toward the argument that the executive has a lot more authority when it comes to how this money is spent, especially if it is assigned as being part of waste, fraud and abuse, then what you might see in terms of a typical approach of administrations in the past. that's an argument that has not been tested to the degree it should be at the supreme court level. it's important to take away from how they're moving fast and breaking things within elon musk's approach, this is going to resolve that question sooner rather than later and it'll be beneficial for the country and many legal conservatives are confident this court will find

in thinker favor. stuart: the flood gates are about to open if not already, ben. msnbc contributor chris matthews calling out democrat lawmakers by name demanding the party push back against trump. >> the big problem is that trump came in this time, this second time with a machine gun. and he fired so many shots. it's very hard to take on a firing squad nobody in the democratic party can say schumer can't do t he's a good leader. chris murphy is trying. i keep waiting, who's going to stand up? who's going to take a shot back at this guy? why isn't cory booker doing it? stuart: ben, who is the leader of the democrat party right four? do you know? >> the leader of the democratic party doesn't exist right now. they have a de-crept faction and far long in the tooth and incapable of leading them and

nancy pelosi is running for reelection and this is one of the situations where the party needed to move toward a younger generation of leaders. which party did did that and has been is donald trump's party and you see that in the form of jd vance and pete hegseth and tulsi gabbard and people gone through the experience of the last couple of decades and emerged with a lot of experience on the ground where they know what things are like in the world. the democratic party has been incapable of moving on and that's why you see people like jasmine crockett that make a lot of noise and don't accomplish anything taking over the air waves and dominating the conversation online. even if they don't have anything in terms of their legislative resume to recommend them as leader of the party. stuart: you're having a lot of fun. i can tell. ben domenech , come back real soon. >> burrito season. stuart: i can tell. designating drug cartels as terrorist groups and trump

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stuart: former new york governor andrew cuomo facing a roadblock running for mayor of new york city. what's his problem, madison?

madison: an let's icks committee looking into his book deal and probe the lucrative $5 million deal he got back in 2020 to write his memoir on covid. despite cuomo's attempts to stop them. the lower courts initially agreed to the governor and court of appeals just announce that had the new ethics commission can continue with his -- with this probe and the track record for cuomo on this is not good. this was an ethics commission and found that the former governor wrote back in 2020. they attempted to force cuomo to repay the $5 million he earned from this book deal to the state. this ruling opens up a new investigation and new opportunity for cuomo to be found in the wrong again just as he tries to make things right

with nigh city voters -- new york city mayor and reason ran for governor. stuart: oh boy. i want to talk about the currentny governor, kathy hochul obviously, she just held a high profile meeting with the -- some top people to talk about removing eric adams from office. madison: crisis. al sharpton and parade of high profile dems that came to her new york city office and sharpton said after his meeting she's going to wait to see how the federal judge rules on the justice department's bid to drop the historic corruption case against adams before making a decision whether or not to remove him from office. take a listen. >> only reason that the governor has to make a decision to do something or not do something 25 has in the been done and double

standard used on eric adams case and having said that, the governor said to me she's going to see what the judge decides tomorrow and keep deliberating with other leaders. madison: so this is really a reversal because sharpton has long been an advocate of adams and we're seeing a change and in part critics have concerns over adams lip and the doj move toddies miss ises case and might be a deal behind the scenes that's requiring the mayor to support the president on immigration and then the tit for tat is having this dropped but the lawyers in the doj denied any agreement and hochul has the power to remove adams we're waiting for that decision from the judge. stuart: two suspected twin de-august walleye gangsters caught during a -- tren de aragua drug raid in queens.

ashley: they're back on the street already. the two suspects tied to the venezuelan gang napped on felony drug and gun charges but once the case got to court, prosecutors reduced those charges to a misdemeanor count of possession of air gun and let them walk without bail. both suspects crossed u.s. border illegally in 2023 but were released into the country under joe biden's basically wide open border policy. one suspect was supposed to be staying in north carolina and the other in georgia. of course both have been living at the tax funded hotels/shelters in new york. stu. stuart: new york in crisis and that's a fact all right, ash, one more for you. it's been about a week since the u.s. sent hundreds of migrants to panama deportation flights. where are those immigrants now. ashley: well, panama detaining those 300 people from various countries in the hotel and 171

of those de-portanova tees agreed to -- de-portanova tees refusing to return to the homeland and most coming from asian countries, iran, india, afghanistan and china and some displayed sos messages on the room window saying it's not safe for them to return home. under an agreement with the u.s., panama serving as grig or transit country while the u.s. bares all the cost of the operation and for those that are refusing to return home, apparently un agencies are now trying to find a destination for them in a third country. stu. stuart: got it. still ahead, green new deal is dying. this is my opinion, it's been a waste of money and helled back our economy and here we are with a president that doesn't much care for the greens and energy secretary that doesn't much care for the green new deal. that's my take, top of the hour. u.s. is facing the worst flu

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stuart: america is facing its worst flu season in 16 years. dr. frank contacessa joining us now. doctor, why is it so bad this year? >> morning, stuart, great to be here. there's a couple of factors. number one, particular strains circulating this year are a bit more severe than we've seen in recent years. both a and b circulating right now. this year's vaccine was less effective than norral and usually about 45% effect and i have this year about 35% effective and less people are getting the vaccine this year. vaccine skepticism after covid drawn less people to get the shot but it's a variety of factors and nothing that out of the ordinary. stuart: if you do take this vaccine, doesn't is lessen the symptoms or make it a less severe infection of flu? >> in general, yes. especially in the elderly and

higher risk populations and younger people get it, you're going to get it and it's more optional for them. it doesn't really stop the spread as much, but in older people, yes, can be less severe. stuart: hhs secretary, rfk jr. pledging total transparency and lays out his plans from the department. got to watch this, roll it. >> some of the possible factors we'll investigation were formally taboo and childhood vaccine schedule and pesticides and ultra processed foods, artificial food allergens and micro-plastics and nothing is off limits. whatever belief or suspicion i've expressed in the past, i'm willing to subject them all to this scrutiny of unbiased science. stuart: i heard that expression, unbiased science. does that mean that we have

biased science now? >> yes. i'm rfk all the way and everything he tipped off and mentioned i'm in favor of looking boo and biased science and influence of the pharmaceutical industry and agriculture in food safety and drug safety and vaccine safety and just saying let's take an honest look at these and if we're doing something wrong, correct it and we're doing things wrong and health of americeral is terrible and so many countries like europe and canada cleaned up food fly and we do have biased science now and we need to take an honest look at these things and use food to do it and i give him credit because it takes courage to do it. stuart: he wants to remove candy and soda from the food stamps. he wants to take it out. would that make america really much healthier?

>> i think it's a step in the right direction. this is taxpayer money. why should we be buying unhealthy food for people underprivileged and need help. the first step is teach these people to eat properly. they shouldn't be allowed to buy candy and junk foot food with taxpayer money. we should number one educate these people how to eat healthy and all in favor of this. this is a good first step and really the poorest nutrition and look at obesity rates and the poorest segments of the population. it's horrific because you know what, it's expensive to eat healthy. i just went and bought grass fed steaks, two decent steaks i pied almost $75 for organic grass fed steak. a cost as lot of money and rfk and movements are cleaning up the health supply will bring healthier food on the price down and not ridiculously expensive to keep yourself healthy. stuart: dr. frank contacessa is rfk all the way; correct?

you are. >> yes, sir. yes, sir. stuart: come back and tell us all about it soon. thank yous, doctor. president trump signed executive order to make ivf, in vitro fertilization more accessible. how is he doing that? madison: well, he has executive order promising to make it more affordable and accessible and in the eo it tasks assistant to the president with looking into recommendations on how to make ivf "drastically more affordable". he want it is done in three months, that's trump time for you. during the election, we remember this and democrats warn that had trump would not only limit access to abortions but access to fertility treatments and to ivf. remember this? >> under the policies and proposals, we'd see total bans on ivf around the country. >> trump keeps saying not only is he opposed to abortion rights and he's also opposed to contraception and opposed to

ivf. >> they clearly as you said hate women. donald trump is the father of abortion bans. madison: now, present day, trump is making ivf more accessible by driving down the cost, which is a hefty $12,000 to $25,000 per cycle. of course someone does have to foot the bill. so when trump was asked who's going to be stuck with the bill, he said insurance companies. but this is just the beginning so we'll see what happens. we should have answers within three months and that's trump time and wants things changed immediately. stuart: now. madison, thank you. still ahead, martha maccallum on democrats crying weaponization on the doj after previously firing all the attorneys even though that's common practice for every president. sheriff mark dannels on designated drug cartels terrorist organizations. mollie hemingway on trump and musk's interview with hannity. they're calling out the damage

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