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stuart: it was extremely cold. and same reading for the dow, and keep saying united health accounts for that loss. it is around 4.5% below 4.5, 446 to be precise. and 98,700. the realtors, this is the latest on existing home sales. what have we got? ashley: it comes in at

4.08 million on an annualized basis, that is down 3%. you can see homebuilders on the board, all down, so toll brothers down 1.5%. not great news for existing home sales, lighter than expected, down 3%. ashley: real estate markets in the doldrums. consumer sentiment, some numbers their too. ashley: coming in at 64. 7, that is not great. expectation is 67.8. this is the final reading for february. when you look at inflation expectations, 4.3% over one year and over five years, 4. 3% 3% one year inflation expectation is pretty high, is it not?

stuart: the confidence at the lowest level since 2003. not a good point up to the future. not much market reaction. the market was down before those numbers came out, it is still down. i would be interested to see what the treasury is doing. now this. in 2023, an outfit called power forward communities brought in just one hundred dollars. it was a newly formed group of charitable organizations with an emphasis on climate. in 2024 a miracle, power forward got a to billion dollar grant from the environmental protection agency, $2 billion. friends in high places but friend in this case was stacy abrams, the democrat who claimed racism was responsible for her loss in the election. she's involved with power

forward and helped steer the $2 billion to her climate house. lee zeldin is the epa investigator, he found under the terms of the grant, power forward had 90 days to complete a training course titled how to develop a budget. how on earth can you give $2 billion to people who need to develop a budget. $20 billion worth of grants outside the government, untouchable. subgrantees, they lost control, not allowed to monitor the money. it is scattered to unaccountable groups across the country. lee zeldin because it wasteful fraud. one more element to the story. the lack of media coverage. the new york post covered it, fox covered it but where is the washington post? the broadcast networks, new

york times, cnn, nowhere to be found. where is that about a $2 billion slush fund that makes an unreported. stacy abrams and the climate crowd, leftist, democrats, this is how you make money in politics even if you lose the election. second hour of varney just getting warmed up. joe concha, we are steaming about this was why is the media not covering it? >> it sticks next to stacy abrams's name, d as in democrats, rules for thee, not for thee. let's say lee zeldin uncovered

a $2 billion slush fund, who defeated stacy abrams, the new york times, washington post, cbs will be covering this? it will be front page stuff for a week but stacy abrams is a media darling, she has been an election denier in the past and gets a free pass for it. if you have a d next to your name, the bias comes to rescue you where most people outside fox news and the new york post aren't hearing about this and that is not journalism. stuart: that's $2 billion. donald trump celebrated his first month in office at the republican governors dinner. >> we've made a lot of progress, the best four weeks anybody has ever had. a few more weeks like this and we will be in great shape but

it is a pleasure to do it, we rip down whatever they have done, like i want to do one executive order, anything he signed is terminated. it is easier, point after point are signed, just everything he signed is no good because that is what basically it is all about. stuart: trump's first month a whirlwind. what do you see happening in the next month? >> if you want to get into the prediction business with the donald trump as far as what will happen the next four weeks i can't predict the next four hours. it is a full's parent but i will give my best shot for the sake of conversation. i think the next four weeks after that blitzkrieg comes simplified down to two things, executive orders have been sweeping, not allowing men to compete against women in women's sports, ending mass illegal migration, seeing border crossings down 95%, down at the southern border, those

are two examples but the congress and senate need to pass bills that go into law, trump's big beautiful bill involving extending the trump tax cuts, making them permanent, border security through the border wall, remain in mexico, if you get that signed into law that is one big thing. the thing is if you can get a peace deal between ukraine and russia that would the most successful transformative two months we have ever seen for many president perhaps ever. stuart: a great weekend for you. speaker johnson wants to make sure trump's executive orders cannot be reversed by another administration. what is the speaker doing? ashley: house speaker johnson says congressional republicans can arrange donald trump's list of exec it orders into a systematic code to protect them

from future presidents. listen to this. >> a mandate to dial that back and fix it and 300 executive what actions already and we are going to codify what he is doing so the next team can't unwind it. ashley: trump has and acted one hundred 8 executive actions, 23 proclamations and 12 men more randoms. he hasn't stopped to take a breath. stuart: better check the market. plenty of red ink for the dow, nasdaq is down 50. s&p down 23 points. let's switch out of stocks, why do you think it's a great time? >> reporter: you got to start

buying bonds, just a little bit. the 10 year treasury around 4.4, four. 45%. inflation expectations have already gone up and are not even over 2% but average annual, if i have 4.5 on the 10 year yield, getting two access percentage points. why not lock it in now? it starts to back down because people coming and buying. stuart: it seems strong to me. >> not as good but they need to keep reinvesting. stuart: i would think getting into 10s and 2s, as a way of security when the stock market my to go down, not suggesting i will stay with bonds for the rest of my life. >> i have been an equity bull, still am from this point.

you need a little correction, the s&p is close to hitting a new high and there's a lot of risk out there but got to out locate towards bonds and you can do that versus five years ago. stuart: real weakness in real estate, the housing market. why do you like home improvement stocks like home depot? you like it? >> reporter: lowes has 5% of a pro-business, higher price, higher margin. as they move their sales into that they get more profit margin and keep buying back stock, new-home sales number we got earlier this morning is not such a big deal, they sell to a lot. stuart: lowes is your pick? >> for a few years. it underperformed but is doing an absolute basis. stuart: we are watching you on

barron's roundtable at 7:30 eastern on fox business. ashley is looking at the movers. how about concert people, live nation. what is up there? ashley: they are up and that is despite fourth quarter sales up 1.5%. they are expecting better demand thanks to a boost in concert at bigger venues so it starts moving higher. celsius holdings, the energy drink people, stocks surging after posting a record revenue in 2024, also agreed to acquire alani nutrition, stock up 25% and finally coin base, the crypto exchange, the sec has agreed to drop a lawsuit accusing them of running an illegal exchange.

that agreement still pending commissioner approval but stock is up 2.3%. stuart: still ahead. activists in california taking their pledge to disrupt ice raids a step further. >> normal vehicles are not going to have lights on the side mirrors or inside. >> terrorizing the city right now. >> making it safer. stuart: we bring you more on the anti-ice operation. look at this video, illegal migrants taking police officers on a dramatic chase through illinois, the crime they are accused of committing. nigel farage compared the us and britain in his speech at cpac. >> what a time it is across the pond. everybody is miserable governed by left-wing awful government. suddenly post november 5th america is optimistic. stuart: nigel is going to tell us a lot more about the uk and the us.

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stuart: fox has obtained footage of a high-speed chase with two honduran nationals. it was a dramatic chase, take us through it. >> suspicious vehicle coming in, it speaks to the issue, opposed to immigration reform for the trump administration.

counties illinois are stepping up and have enough problems and don't want to be a sanctuary. two hondurans in the us just lead police on a high-speed chase through cornfields an hour and 1/2 outside chicago. >> running north to the field. >> 23-year-old velasquez are rested, 7 pounds of fentanyl. illinois safety eliminates cash bond and fled to california. the county chairman believes it is a sanctuary state. >> if they had a less welcoming statement illegal immigration on those roadways. >> the first county in illinois to push back a pass a

resolution the it does not welcome illegal migrants. chicago and surrounding suburbs never received a busload. >> results speak for themselves. it is not a non-sanctuary. >> and past their own non-sanctuary. and held for another incident, and a detainer for velasquez requesting they get notification if he's released from county jail. grundy county officials cannot grant that request. over immigration matters. stuart: thank you very much. activists patrolling neighborhoods in los angeles warning the public about ice

agents in the area. >> we are not sure yet what is happening. don't know if normal vehicles won't happen and have lights on the side. and this has nothing to do with immigration. it is not immigration related and it was not here. stuart: griffin jenkins, they are interfering with justice. >> this administration, dhs secretary christine noem says they bring polygraph tests but that video, here is the office her saying this is immigration, they are going to be impeding

trying to protect people from criminals who could be the next murder of laken riley, what happening in la, dozens, 50 groups of activists like that gentlemen who have come together under a, quote, community of concerned citizens, common defense coalition, banding to gather to get in the way of law enforcement which was stark and discouraging because people that voted want security, dangers, migrants. stuart: the president of mexico wants to ban foreign governments or intervening in her country's territory designating some cartels, terrorist organizations, but a

foreign government ban, have operation in mexico training mexican marines which are they going to be withdrawn. >> during the biden administration, they were hand-in-hand with mexico. the previous -- it is in a different direction. read the room, the cartels ran roughshod when he had his hugs, not bullets campaign. the border shut down, with this foreign terrorist organization designation, it will be harder after cartels.

once they have for years not owned a border, and for her to stand in the way, won't allow any foreign country, it makes no sense. stuart: it makes political sense in mexico to keep out those rotten americans invading our territory, she's under threat from the cartels inside mexico. they need us. >> we have drones over labs, we want to assist with your guys, the cartels are in a pushover, really heavy-handed stuff so to not have our cooperation it doesn't make political sense if she sends in only her people

and puts their law enforcement at greater risk to not have us involved. stuart: they get hold of 200 pounds of meth? >> when i was out last year, where that gap was and monitors streaming farouk, the mexican military got in the way and blocked that, the cooperation that made the difference. stuart: we got to give this more time, he has a special on fox nation, showdown at the panama canal is available now. let's get that preview, roll it. >> we gave it to panama. it has been operated by china. hello. where are you from? >> is it right? could we take this back? let's find out.

stuart: what is the conclusion? >> i got the best job on tv. trump some would say may be obsessed about taking it back but you need to know the history. it is clearly a big standoff but we will see where it goes, panamanians not thrilled about donald trump trying to take it back. stuart: i will watch. coming up, democrats don't like elon musk and don't like his idea of giving out dividend checks. watch. >> we are not in the business of giving out money and i don't know if $5,000 will do it for you. stuart: you don't know what $5000 will do for you? our taxpayer money after all. the trump team telling ukraine to tone it down is looks to make a peace deal with russia. >> who do you think is more responsible for the russian invasion of ukraine? vladimir putin or zelenskyy? >> his goal is to bring the war to a end. period.

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morning, solid loss for the dow, our 380 come nasdaq moving south as welcome one hundred 24 points this friday. ashley looking at the movers. i explained what's going on with crowd strike. ashley: it is not good news, the department of justice and the sec an outstanding investigation into the cybersecurity company. they are reviewing the $32 million deal to provide cybersecurity tools, crowd strike 4%. unity software climbing again today after a slew of analysts raise their price targets. jpmorgan up to $32 to name a couple. jpmorgan says the new algorithm the company is set to unveil is a near-term catalyst.

take a look at trip advisor down this morning after the latest report. earnings for the quarter and 2024 came in strong, the outlook is weighing heavily on investors mind, jpmorgan citing multiple head winds but also says 2,026 could be the beginning of a turnaround. trip advisor down 6.3%. stuart: moving on, hamas has returned the bodies of two young child hostages. their mother's remains are missing. jeff paul reporting from israel. is really in the us sending warnings to hamas. what are they saying? >> reporter: it started with heartbreak as they watched the return of those bodies coming back to israel but it ended in terror after several explosions after a couple buses in central israel.

investigators say those buses just finished their roots for the day when those detonations went off. the explosives were found on two other buses they didn't detonate. police report firebombs all the same, all fixed with timers and authorities say it is a miracle no one was hurt. all of this happening when two hostages and their mother were handed over to israel by hamas but israel positively identified them, sherry bebus was the body of an identified woman from gaza. benjamin netanyahu says whoever is responsible will be brought to justice. >> who kidnapped the little boy and a baby and burned them? monsters, that is who. these hamas monsters cynically refused to bring back the boy's mother, sherry, sent to the body of a gazan woman instead in violation of the agreement.

>> reporter: representatives from hamas released a statement rejecting benjamin netanyahu's threats. they will conduct a thorough review but point to the possibility of a mixup of body saying the remains were found in an area they claim israel had bombed with palestinians present. hamas saying they have no reason not to hold up the cease-fire deal and we expect we 6 living hostages to be released starting tomorrow. stuart: we hear you. army special operations joins me now. this is a horrific story. how do you think israel will respond? >> blatant violation of the agreement, we found out this morning the two boys age 4 and nine months were killed with the bare hands of terrorists. beaten or choked, they said was released at the request, what

savagery his children were subjected to. stuart: reading between the lines i understand how israel and benjamin netanyahu are angered to an extreme degree. will they go back into gaza? >> very good possibility. of tomorrow's release goes as planned, six living hostages left, that's the end of phase one. afterwards the remaining balance of the hostages and of hamas and if hamas gets them up, no more leverage. stuart: there is only six living hostages left. >> in phase 1 of the deal. stuart: are there other living hostages? >> there are living hostages left but it's the end of hamas's leverage, they would have to be willing to give them up and they continue to violate terms of the deal and this was the most profoundly stupid thing they could have done. these two innocent children and their mother galvanize the israeli public and not only do they not get their mother's body back but beat the children to death with their bare hands. what savages do something like that? stuart: they cannot be allowed to remain in the gaza.

>> there is no way hamas can be allowed to remain. i watched the video, 45 minutes long, i saw the al qaeda videos at the pentagon. hamas members in the videos enjoyed what they were doing and were celebrating whereas al qaeda it was serious business. you can't fix that. stuart: i will change the subject and talk about the war in ukraine. mike walls says trump is frustrated with zelenskyy. >> donald trump is very frustrated right now with president zelenskyy, the fact that he hasn't come to the table, hasn't been willing to take this opportunity we have offered. i think he eventually will get to that point and i hope very quickly but donald trump as we made clear to our russian counterparts is focused on stopping the fighting and

moving forward. we can argue all day long about what is happening. stuart: mike walls is referring to trump's offer to purchase ukraine's minerals, zelenskyy turned it down. we now here there's another offer on the table, zelenskyy's aids say take it, they don't want to rustle up trump any longer. what do you make of the relationship? >> there's a difference of opinion, the united states and ukraine should be on the same page for negotiating with the russians, vladimir putin does not want the ukrainians at the table yet, donald trump says i will speak to vladimir putin and structure an agreement. there seems to be a back and forth. let's stop with the rhetoric, get back to the table and get to an agreement. stuart: by the sound of it you think and agreement is possible. >> we are running out of men, material, and equipment, defense manufacturing during the day, we have had to do an increase in some weapons systems to meet the demand between ukraine and israel and

it is not a sustainable fight for ukraine or russia. there is something on the way. stuart: what kind of weapons may i ask? >> the artillery shells in the supply chains, we had to borrow 300,000 rounds from israel which got sent back and borrow 500,000 rounds from south korea so the german company that manufactures them, the guy on the hit list is wrapping up 75, 85 a month and the us had to do the same, the defense industrial base had to scale and now you have europe taking primary security. everyone has to build to prewar levels with a budget increase. that type of manufacturing isn't sustainable in the long term. a million dead on both sides. stuart: thank you for joining us this morning. kash patel confirmed, laying out his mission to rebuild the

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stuart: donald trump met with tiger woods at the white house, they talked about a way to merge the pga tour with liv golf. how are they going to get together? >> before any deal goes down it is going to need federal approval but trump is a big golfer and is receptive to this merger. >> thanks for being here. the head of the pga, interesting discussions.

>> a statement, thanks to the leadership of donald trump, initiated a discussion about the reunification of golf. it has been in the works since 2023, the department of justice has been investigating to see if this merger will violate antitrust laws. players like tiger woods say it's eager for this to happen. >> they want all of us to play together and we will make that happen. >> live is backed by saudi arabia's public investment fund as a rival to the pga. fox as the media rights, and trump is hosting a live tournament in april, some lawmakers haven't been so sure the merger is a good thing. in a statement from democratic senator richard blumenthal the senator writes donald trump isn't sucking up to the saudis to benefit you or your community. he's doing it to increase

investments in his own company said benefit his billionaire buddies. for two years we've been investigating how foreign interests use their massive wealth to infiltrate not just american cultural institutions like golf but politics, infrastructure and economy. a timeline is unclear but there are big differences in live in the pga and how much money they rake in. live in 2023 brought $37.1 million in stark contrast to that, the pga raked in 1.83 billion. stuart: we hear it, thanks very much indeed. numbers of the trump administration celebrating his first month in office. i guess it was a big celebration. ashley: lots to talk about.

karoline -- karoline levitt was joined by stephen miller and both of them praise the president for his administration's dynamic start. listen to this. >> the president has signed 73 executive orders, more than double the number signed by joe biden and quadrupled the number signed by barack obama over the same period. >> thank you for joining our 1-month celebration of the most historic opening to a presidency in american history. he has ended all dei across the federal government, terminated all federal workers involved in promulgating unlawful policies, restored merit as the cornerstone of all federal policy. ashley: all in the first month, not just executive orders and those four weeks, donald trump has hosted the leaders of israel, japan, jordan and india. next monday he will host

france's president, emmanuel macron, and the european prime minister keir starmer. stuart: the senate confirmed kash patel as fbi director. who was the final vote? ashley: down party lines, 51-49, two republicans did joined democrats in opposing the nominee, susan collins of maine, lisa murkowski, the usual suspects. democrats wasted no time predicting kash patel will create chaos, mayhem and even worse. >> kash patel, mark my words, will cause evil in this building behind us and republicans who vote for him will route that day. no one is a bigger more dangerous sycophant than kash patel. this political hack does not deserve to be in this building. >> this is not a distraction. this is a real danger and a real threat.

ashley: they are you have it. kash patel looks to take over leadership of the fbi and a time of turmoil for the agency as it deals with allegations of weaponization from donald trump. they will be getting into that but those predictions from democrats, hyperbole, may be. stuart: thanks. difficult subject, discussed at the hostage return, babies and coffins paraded through the streets of gaza and their mother's body is missing. in my opinion hamas cannot be allowed to stay. they plan to do it all over again. that's "my take," top of the hour. more varney after this.

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the reciprocal tariff donald trump announced would be in place april 2nd. >> reciprocal trade is about our government treating other governments the way they treat us, we want to trade to be fair. it turned out americans have been disadvantaged by foreign governments that donald trump wanted to stop. >> reporter: the european union holds one hundred $65 billion surplus with the us, there tariffs exceed us tariffs at the moment, the trade negotiator told me he met for four hours on wednesday at the white house with top trade advisers. the eu is open to lowering tariffs and wants to 1-on-1 trade deal with donald trump. >> in the past, we've not had a big success so we have a new focus on this because we discuss how to eliminate tariffs on all industrial products.

and solutions for both sides. >> reporter: this would include protections for big tech. the negotiator tells us if a deal cannot be reached the european union would increase tariffs as the us increases tariffs. stuart: thanks very much indeed. look who is here. nigel farage. how do the brits, he is a british politician, how do the brits view the trump administration so far? >> across the country is a growing admiration because something remarkable is happening in america. a guy said to the electorate this is what i am going to do and he is doing it. right across the british political spectrum whether you like trump or not he is delivering and these threatened tariffs are a part of that. stuart: the brits have

volunteered to keep peacekeeping troops and ukraine. how do the brits feel about that? how do you feel about that? >> i've got mixed feelings. labor and tourism run down the british army so far, a frontline contribution of 4 to 5000 soldiers so wouldn't be that big a plan. i don't think it is premature to commit troops. we don't know what the final shape of the deal is. we are not ruling it out completely. let's wait and see. stuart: you are at the cpac conference, what is your message to america? >> thank you, thank you. you may not have saved not just your own country but the entire western world by fighting against woke, dei, mass migration, sovereignty, borders, free-speech are all the things, what a great

victory and on my side of the pond i'm seeing changes directly as a result of trump's victory. as far as british politics is concerned, the moment my party is leading in the polls, there is big change coming. stuart: don't be a stranger in new york. next time you're in america you are on set with me. nigel farage. still ahead. we have kim strossel, emily sturge so, the 11:00 hour of "varney and company" is next. ♪ ♪ ♪

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