>> in spite of todd's bitterness in general this guy is so popular he hasn't made a misstep and i'm so happy for the student is awesome. maria: the most important item of the week looks to be whether or not the u.s. can have and get the votes in terms of the reconciliation and the house budget, can they get the vote talking about one and half trillion in spending cuts we will see we will know more tomorrow markets 30 minutes before the opening bell are higher, dow industrial 234 after a selloff on friday and thu thursday. i still would get ahead of nvidia i think the numbers are blown out of the water into be a good strategy to put that to work before that the announced method to the week. maria: you say by nvidia before wednesday. it's a bold move but i think it's a right move. sticking your neck out there. todd piro, cheryl casone good to be with you have a great day will see everybody tomorrow morning have a wonderful monday "varney & company" picks it up.

>> good morning everyone, tim cook apples chief executive spent time in the oval office with president trump last week now we know what they were talking about apple will spend a half trillion dollars in america in the next four years, tim cook the latest ceo to pledge big money to keep america technological superiority. we don't know yet what apple gets in return. the stock is down a dollar. every day when you wake up there is something new from the president the rolling continues. elon musk told federal workers to e-mail him with a list of what they have been doing for the last week the deadline is midnight tonight, failure to respond means you don't want the job. there is pushback, capital of the fbi, pete hegseth the defense told workers not to respond, elon musk says doge has received responses and those people will be in line for a room entrepreneur. the markets rally apple doesn't

play a role in this but lower interest rates probably are and were rebounding after a couple of days of big losses at the end of last week, the dow up 200, the nasdaq up over 100 points look nvidia it releases the all-important earnings report on wednesday the stock is at 136, up to a half dollars, the two-year treasury 4.44% i got that wrong. it's well under for the half percent, the two-year well under four and a quarter% you're looking at for 22. bitcoin is languishing at 956, that is the price of oil down to $70 a barrel, gas very little change 314 for regular, diesel down a penny at 367, ukraine squeeze, trump insist zelenskyy to hand over half of the profit from ukraine's mining industry trump wants the money that we sent them payback plans for

trump pollutant summit moving along nicely. francis emanuel micron business oval office. the british arrive thursday. in germany a crushing defeat for all actual to the current leader and huge increase in the vote for the conservative afd party opposition to immigration was a key issue just like in america worldwide the open border policy is dead. monday febrile the 24th 2025, "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪. stuart: it was too easy, the apple of my eye of course, get into gas the top story it is apple, not that much business i been saying this for months for

years actually. it's kind of quiet these days. we will start with apple that company has announced a gigantic 500 billion-dollar investment in the united states and the next four years, the largest commitment apple has ever given, 50% higher than what they did back in 2018, there is $500 billion that will go towards the following hiring 20000 new employees, building a new advanced a.i. server factory in houston, texas opening a new apple manufacturing academy in detroit, michigan. doubling apples advanced manufacturing fund to $10 billion and expanding teams and facilities in ten different states. ceo tim cook says we are bullish on the future of american innovation and we are proud to build on a long-standing u.s. investment with the 500 billion commitment to our country's future. president trump let's move back, president trump greeted by a rural in crowd at cpac, listen

to what he had to say about the first month in office. >> the fraudsters, liars, globalist and deep state bureaucrats are being sent packing, the illegal alien criminals are being sent home, we are draining the swamp and restoring government by the people. after cleanup the mess and cleaning up the mess and it is a mass on the border with inflation. every single thing that he touched turned to ship. everything. >> he made the point, joe concha with me this monday morning, he has reversed everything that biden has done. now he is facing a lot of pushback. do you think he will be forced to slow down a little? >> i think if anything we listen to the president over the weekend he wants elon musk to speed up and be more aggressive pre-the first 30 days can be described as dizzy blitzkrieg

controlled chaos. it's a daunting task trying to cover the second term, 2017 you may remember by inviting daily leaks, white house entry, russia russia, trump into the white house, this time around unapologetic plan to deliver on his campaign promises to reverse everything that joe biden did overall more than 70 executive orders have been signed 26 on day one to domestic drilling to government di programs to banning biological men competing against biological women in sports to restoring the death penalty and world health organization and everything elon musk in doge is doing as far as massive government waste and possible corruption, these are all things that the campaign the trump campaign campaigned on and he is delivering on the first 33 days it's unbelievable, if you like three years at this point.

stuart: if you like christmas every day in the news business, there's always something new on your plate first thing in the morning, stay there for a moment i want to bring you back to the end of the block. let's get to the markets we gotta move on because we have a rally, the dow industrial up about 217 in the premarket and the nasdaq up 100 points. a lot of selling, buying this monday morning. ryan payne joins me. what is behind the rally this morning read i was inclined to think it might be apple half trillion dollar investment but apparently not. >> bottom line we had a selloff at the end of last week i think using recovery from that. i will say the apple store is pretty important it is a reminder that companies will spend a lot of money on technology over the next couple of years and if the capital expenditure is not going away that's very good for gdp growth and i'm in the camp of thinking we will have better gdp growth not slower for the next couple of years it will accelerate and overall it's a pretty good st

story. >> a trillion dollars in four years spent in america. nvidia reported wednesday "after the bell", is that make or break for big tech? >> i think it will give you more of the same. we know everyone spending a lot of money on nvidia chips. if you look at next year the expenditure on a.i. and for structure from the mega hyper scaler whether meta, microsoft, alphabet or amazon there to spend 320 billion enough to go into nvidia's pockets. my question is this at some point were overestimating how much demand we have for the a.i. infrastructure. i would like to put money into fixing the potholes in the roads and other things like physical infrastructure. i think the trend continues short-term but longer-term our anticipation for the growth and a.i. and for structure is probably getting a little long in the tooth. stuart: we will check that out, thank you indeed, good stuff we will see you soon.

according to the cpac straw poll, vice president jd vance is the front runner to become the republican nominee in 2028. he got within 60% support, listen to what president trump said about winning the straw poll back in 2014. stuart: i first spoke to the gathering to 14 years ago. i one year straw poll i did not know anything about it they took the straw poll and i will buy 27 points and i figured, that is good maybe i should keep doing it. i did and i became president, isn't that great. stuart: joe concha you better come back in, this is the line of succession being decided now. >> absolutely. if you talk to any trump supporter they all love jd vance i think some folks including myself were skeptical of the pickup jd vance and he only one ohio senate by six points in the

state that the governor one by 25 who is also republican. i said maybe glenn youngkin or marco rubio should've been the choice and said ever since then jd vance and i spoke to the president about this when i interviewed him not long ago says that jd vance has exceeded his expectation by two 100%. in other words he shown himself to be often times the most intelligent person in the room when he is being interviewed in hostile arenas and on the world stage we saw the speech to germany warning of censorship and overall a guy who's only 40 years old at this point usually vice president's are in line to succeed a president that cannot run again and jd vance 61% right there, it's his nomination to lose some at this point. >> it's different from trump 1.0 from 2016 and 2017. joe concha always good to have you on the show. we appreciate it. the administration has fallen through on his promise to cut

usaid down to size. good morning how many employees have been let go. >> 1,601,600 eliminated in all direct hire personnel with the exception of staff deemed critical placed on administrative leave, the judge ruled that there protesting the cuts have failed to prove irreparable harm. stuart: thank you, how about that, 1600 gone. thank you. coming up secondary defense pete hegseth defended donald trump's decision to make cuts at the pentagon. >> nothing about this is unprecedented, the president deserves to pick his key national security and military advisory team. stuart: pete hegseth directed an 8% budget cut in each of the next five years. right now the president is meeting with france emmanuel macron at the white house discussing ukraine could he deal be reached this week, house armed services committee member takes that on. he is next.

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speed when the house is preparing to vote on the republican budget resolution. it's being endorsed by president trump and unlike the senate proposal this does extent the 2017 tax cuts. aishah hasnie joins me, what's the latest on getting the bill done what's the latest especially wall street wants the tax cuts extended. >> absolutely so do many republicans that feel like they needed to go through with the one big beautiful bill and it looks like that's underway and at the same time everyone is

arguing about doge including democrats who are using this to make their arguments. for example minnesota senator tina smith over the weekend not so minnesota nice on x writing this on sunday about elon musk in the e-mail to federal workers basically asking them to prove their worth. she wrote this this is the ultimate [bleep] boss moved from elon musk except he's not the boss he's a you know what. elon replied to her what did you get that last week and smith shot back that she answers to the people minnesota adding that she spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for beginners like elon musk. that appears to be the new talking point for the left in all the negotiations. >> this is all about taking wealth, taking resources from the federal government in programs that are actually helping working people in give those in a huge tax to themselves. it's a completely inhumane what he's doing by the way.

no compassion, no thought about these people that are working hard to deliver services and quite frankly it is crazy that this is his approach. >> congressional republicans say the tax breaks are for every american and what's happening with doge is transparency that the american people voted for. >> that is what you call proper management and we have federal employees that are saying we don't want to do that we want to do whatever we want to do on our time and that is not acceptable. >> they all returned to work this week later tonight and we will probably hear more outrage from the democrats as soon as they get back. >> probably thank you indeed, texas congressman pat fallon joining me now. california governor gavin newsom has asked for $40 billion for los angeles wildfire relief. will you approve $40 billion with no strings? >> first of all we have to help

california but that 40 billion that figure is the one that they came up with. we will take a hard look at how much is actually needed. if it's 40 okay, if it's 30, okay. however, they also need strings attached. disasters the ones that are preventable we need to prevent them, it is that simple tornadoes and hurricanes are one thing. when you have a fire as devastating as it was could have been prevented with better management for history management and better prevention i think the answer to that is yes. if they want the funds whether 40 billion or a smaller amount they have to agree to implement things that will prevent this in the future. stuart: next when the president of france emmanuel macron is meeting with president trump at the white house they are discussing proposals to end the war in ukraine listen to what trump had to say about a deal with ukraine.

>> we don't get our money back, we don't get nothing so were getting our money back working to get our money back. it is not fair it is not fair and we will see but i think were pretty close to a deal we better be close to a deal because that has been a horrible situation. it never would've happened if i were president. i would like to say the meeting emmanuel macron that takes place later on today. ukraine's president zelenskyy seems to be effectively pushed out of the deal, he does not get a say in this country's peace deal. are you okay with that congers been? >> these are preliminary talks and certainly it's okay for the united states to consult with their major allies the ones that are in theater as well not being france and britain to see where they sit. we have committed spent or committed $175 billion to ukraine and that you collectively is about a little north of $150 billion they have been there for ukraine as well

and as the president said we need this to stop, kamala harris is in joe biden's plan was a continued war of attrition which doesn't serve anybody's interest at all. i love the fact that the president is taking bold action and a deal for ukraine will have to give them security guarantees moving on because they don't want to or three year cease-fire where putin comes back in and tries again that has to be prevented. at the same time we have got to stop sending 30 and $40 billion a year, actually right now it's about 40 billion a year in perpetuity, this has to end. stuart: how do you feel about president trump wanting to get something out of the deal like half of ukraine's profits from mining and infrastructure. trump is taking money back, do you approve of that. >> president trump also says very bold eye-popping statements a lot of the time to get people's attentions and that's where he starts a negotiation.

when a lot of americans don't realize ukraine has the fourth most natural resources of any nation-state in the world, they have tremendous potential, that is the key potential wealth but they need peace and stability to harness the well, we're into it for 175 billion. if we get mineral rights over the course of the next few decades that's only going to help the united states that will help ukraine traumatically moving forward. >> pete had staff the country sticking to his guns after they fired six top officials included the joint chief of staff. listen to this. >> nothing about this is unprecedented. the president deserves to pick his key national security and military advisory team there are boxer presidency made changes from fdr to eisenhower to h.w. bush to barack obama or dismissed hundreds of military during his term there were 63 and four star generals that were moved into different positions or retired on friday night of

163 and four star generals. congressman john the armed services committee are you backing this plan the sweeping change? >> one 100% pete had staff couldn't say it better, there are 163 four-star generals and another's 800 total flag officers that is 800 roughly admirals and generals in six got dismissed. it's not the night of the long knives, the president needs to do in these to work with the folks that will implement his agenda with enthusiasm. he is the commander-in-chief of the military has every right to do this and i think quite frankly we will be focused more on projecting power and deterring aggression instead of what somebody's freak and pronouns are. stuart: point taken. congers met pat fallon we appreciated always. one msnbc host is asking if trump fire the joint chief over race, tell me more.

>> symone sanders townsend said general brown one of those asked on friday was let go because he is black. watch. >> what is going on between cq brown, we need to ask a question was he fired because he was black? because it's not that he's unqualified, he was confirmed by the senate. when it comes to ukraine, if ronald reagan rolling over in his grave right now? >> as you heard from the defense secretary pete hegseth he told shannon bream, cq brown is a great man but not the man at the moment and he will be replaced by a three-star general called out of retirement dan kaine raising cain he told trump you can defeat isis in weeks not months or years, you can do it fast. stuart: trump liked what he heard. a quick check of futures, monday morning here's how your money is

behaving the dow up 200, the nasdaq up 80. the opening bell is next. ♪

stuart: the futures point to green the dow up 200, the nasdaq up 73 points. interest rates are down a bit that's probably hoping the market. keith fitz joining us you are buying more palmatier and more nvidia, let's start with volunteer. why buy more. >> we have a saying by the best and ignore the rest palantir is in the group i think all the efficiency cuts that everybody is going on is what this company does huge market share growing deals efficiency all the way across-the-board will be very profitable. stuart: it's on the big dip i saw at $120 a share last week now it is 95. >> again we talked with 345% of the last 12 months i'm not that concerned about seven or eight or 10% i horizon is five or ten years i think the stock goes to 200 in it substantially higher

as the world moves into a.i. and efficiency. nvidia are you buying more of that, tell me why. >> same story i think will see strong numbers the supply constraint that everybody's been so worried about have been one of packaging not moving forward you a lock on supply a.i. they supply 80% of the market share in the market is addressing that. it's continue to accelerate there is not a single nvidia chip going unsold and you gotta pay attention as an investor. sabado into several of the folks have recommended home depot and lows despite the real estate market being as bad as it is, you like them both? why. >> i like them as indicators. i will not own either of them as long as people are buying sinks and not redoing the entire bathroom. this is a data point that tells me consumers are still struggling. maybe they are thank you for joining us now will turn our attention to the market the nasdaq, press the button were

often rolling in early going the dow has moved up 150 points one third of 1% and as you look at all the stocks of the dow 30 there is a lot more green then there is red but remember two days of strong selling at the end of last week the s&p 500 on the upside .30%, 17 points the nasdaq composite is up a little .35%, 67 points, look at big tech all across-the-board what we have we have a lot of green alphabet, meta, amazon, microsoft, apple are all up they are all up let's pull out apple taylor good morning. what is a half tree in dollar investment in america and the next four years what is that going to do to the stock. >> a little bit unchanged but here to the upside this is a pretty big announcement when you think about the size and scale $500 billion that you mention

expanding factories in michigan again arizona, nevada, iowa, north carolina and washington and of course building out a one in texas specifically in houston where they want to build out data centers that help support apple intelligence that is there a.i. program. in helping to advance the u.s. manufacturing fund which is a training academy if you will to grow up in next-generation to manufacturers to help support a.i., this is a big announcement this morning. stuart: blue states do not get much of this. this is very interesting microsoft is canceling leases on some a.i. data centers. why is it doing that. >> we are hearing from analyst .tv cowan who put up the snow on friday that they are maybe a little bit cautious on demand have they built out more a.i. computing data centers than they actually need. analyst .tv cowan say they

adhere to the supply checks that they cancel international and u.s. domestic data center leases that they will not go forward with them this was big news you saw it hit the stock a little bit on friday were trying to recover and will have to see if this and that being a true report. >> that is fascinating. starbucks a lot of layoffs. 1100 in the corporate sector. hard to think this is a big surprise brian niccol came over from aaa he's been in the big role at starbucks trying to turn the company around in the focus has been to simplify starbucks in the menu get back to basics, reduce overhead and overlap and that's what this is going to hit the corporate side to reduce the extra layers of management. stuart: a couple of minutes ago keith fitz was recommending palantir he loves it to this day but it is down another 4.7% this morning is this because of the defense budget and cut and

defense. >> we talked about this on thursday the eighth% budget cuts in the next few years each coming from the dod how does that impact palantir i think it was thursday when people said if you want exposure to a.i. nvidia on a ratio basis on a multiple basis is cheaper than palantir palantir does defense and a.i., some people say this helps because it makes it more productive and efficient when you're examining your contracts a lot of people say for a multiple how expensive this company is it something you need to consider when you're looking at budget cuts. >> i believe president trump is considering dropping the tax credit for electric vehicles. if he does that what happens to the electric vehicle makers. >> there was a new report yesterday saying the $7500 tax credit on average is like a 15% price cut. if you are not giving away the subsidy that is an extra 15%

price that effectively you have to pay. no surprises we talked about where we are on the demand cycle for ev's and where we are if there is a lot of demand that is a big jump that would not help the industry. here's another nail in the coffin of the global track under climate change, bp ditching their energy goals there was never a green oil company then shall are they going back to o oil. >> we are, were expecting capital market stay on wednesday an about-face for bp which is been underperforming about of the peers because they had the big to drop oil and gas by 2030 and a new bid to increase the renewables by 20 fold by 2030 we hear that the go to drop the mandate and they no longer need to increase their investment in renewables by 20 ask go back to foster under fossil fuels and it comes as shareholders have been worried about earnings and the return on the investment. stuart: can you show me

robinhood i believe the sec has closed its investigation into robinhood crypto. the stock is up what it hampers, they closed it right. >> they dropped in investigating the crypto arm of robinhood robinhood came out and said they got a letter from the sec there no longer going to be moving forward with the enforcement action against them and this comes about three days after coinbase confirmed similar stories this is an overall a lax enforcement action from this new sec in terms of how they thinking about crypto. stuart: what can you tell me about google, this is google the new a.i. video and vo2. >> this is what helps you create video using a.i., listen to this, according to one google deep mine researcher, vo2 cost about 50 cents a second. that is $1800 an hour, that

sounds like a lot. remember the budget for adventure endgame was $32000 the second. were not talking about a three hour future film when you use vo2 it's about a two minute clipboard so but this highlights how quick and easy a.i. can be if you want to create a video using a.i. stuart: that's a revelation. i'm just nodded it yet. dominoes i know they reported before the bell looks like it was a bad report, what is wrong with the pizza business. >> an overall miss on the top and bottom line, they're highlighting the value strategy called hungry for more but were not seen that piano immediately the ceo highlighting a continued challenging macro economic environment that is also something not new that we've heard that people are trying to order it's been a challenging environment. stuart: i thought it might be the impact of weight loss drugs. >> no comment yet.

we will see you on the big money show 12 noon on fox business. james carville says the republicans are about to collapse. watch this. >> i believe this diminished ration and less than 30 days in the midst of a massive collapse. in particular a collapse in public opinion. stuart: a massive collapse is not wishful thinking from james carville will take it on a full report covenant. the president is doubling down on his defensive tariffs. >> it's going to happen soon a lot sooner than you think we will have so much money coming in from tariffs. is he exhorting inflation that some believe will come with tariffs. stephen moore has that next. ♪

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stuart: elon musk is asking federal employees to list five accomplishments from the workweek if you do it by midnight tonight or risk being fired. peter doocy at the white house. there are some agencies pushing back on this. >> the fbi the defense department the health and human services department all telling employees not to respond by the midnight deadline. elon musk in the doge what every federal employee to send them five bullet points and sisi their managers five things that they contributed to their job in the agency last week. elon musk explained his approach like this, the reason this matters is significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they're not checking her e-mail at all in some cases we believe nonexistent people with identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks

in other words outright fraud but some of the weary agencies are telling people not to participate like the pentagon they sent everybody an e-mail that said please pause any response with the e-mail titled what did you do last week, federal employee unions and lawmakers are very critical of this approach. >> elon musk has been lying through his teeth to the american people time and time again they claim to have identified misspending area in the vast majority of cases that has been playing untrue. president trump wants elon musk to keep going posting untrue social he wants a special government employee to be more aggressive. stuart: thank you very much is doubling down on what he believes to be the effectiveness of his tariffs. watch. >> we can have so much money coming in from tariffs, your going to say your senators and

congressmen are going to say please sir you are making us look so bad we have so much money coming in i did not know this is going to happen please don't do this to us with a very bad but the great they're doing work. let's bring in stephen moore he's an economist he has a sense of humor, let's get serious about this is the president ignoring the inflationary impact of tariffs, some believe there is an inflationary impact or is he believing there is no inflation at all. >> i believe everybody is ignoring what's going on with inflation. i think i mentioned this on your show couple weeks ago but the transit inflation are not good, they are bad. if you look at the last treatments inflation rate has been rising for - 5% while above the 2% target. i like to take a look at the commodity index where you can look at every single day ahead and all-time high last week.

i'm here to tell you the inflation dragon has not been slayed, i think the trump administration really needs to focus on bringing prices back down. i generally agree with what you are saying about the potentially inflationary impact of these tariffs because the tariff is partly paid for by consumers and if you put a tax on something that's coming into the country and you buy that you will pay a higher price. i always circle back to one thing when you asked me about inflation trump was president for four years, those four years the inflation rate was 1.95% this guy has a track record of bringing inflation down. i'm going to bet on trump on this one. new york's coveted kathy hochul met with the president at the white house she says she's taking trump to court over his decision to end the new york toll program you listen to this.

>> it was an adversarial meeting but i was very clear after i found the trump administration had ended a program that was put in place congestion pricing by the duly elected members of our legislature represented the voice of the people and with the tweet he claims he is the king and therefore he has the power to destroy it. i have a problem with that characterization. >> this is going to the courts? >> oh yes it is going to the courts and i believe it'll be victorious. let's answer the question. is it legit for the president to step in and reverse a plan made by an elected government of a state or city? >> i'm a federalist i believe in states rights i want states to have control. if new york wants to do stupid things i think they have a right to do that. there is an issue about how much federal money went into the roads that they want to put a toll on and that might be a

factor in the trump administration decision. i want all the power out of washington devolved in the states that's what our founding fathers had in mind we don't do allegiance to federalism much anymore so i don't like when the federal government tells the states what to do. i know were on time but i gotta say one more thing what trump is doing trying to tame the federal bureaucracy i've been waiting for 40 years for this, reagan tried to do it, bill clinton tried to do it, bush tried to do it take on the massive bureaucracy and trump the first president to have the backbone to take on what is a corrupt and inefficient and arrogant federal bureaucracy. i'm tipping my hat to the sky. what is wrong you have to tell your employer what you do and how you're making a difference. anybody in the private sector has to do it. stuart: i don't have a problem with that but you've a problem

with tariffs. i'm not a big tariff guy i just want you to know. >> we know that, you're alright, think you are joining us. coming up when you wield the power of life or death you hold a very strong hand president trump is offering zelenskyy a deal he cannot refuse that is my take at the top of the hour california government looking at taking control of oil refineries in the state some critics say they'll run it into the ground you will have the full story from the formerly golden state next. ♪

stuart: california is considering taking ownership of some of the oil refineries in the state, max gorden in wilmington. what does a california government really want to do with the refineries? >> i think a big concern this is going to keep spiking up oil prices in the state no other state in the country runs its own oil refineries, those in the

oil industry in the western u.s. say this is a bad idea. >> they have no idea on a refinery you will have a bigger impact of the market volatility that they are already concerned with by taking the step. it's a step in the wrong direction. it is statement out california energy commission wrote that this plan is not actively in the works for cec identified that estate on refinery may provide relief to consumers but recognize there are many challenges to overcome in the high cost of purchase to operate the skilled labor and expertise for managing refinery operation and how we would fit in the transition away from petroleum fuels this past october the state passed a new law the lights california regulators set standards for how much gasoline inventory refineries need to have on hand in the gas volatility in the regulations now have refiners reconsidering

the state currently nine refineries in california produce gasoline from the bay area to los angeles phillips 66 announced they're leaving this location here in wilmington at the end of this year while chevron and valero are evaluating their operations and strict regulations on low profit margins and account for 55% and the crude oil capacity, there used to be a lot more back in 1984 there were 43 and while demand for gas has been falling since the mid-2000 california remains the second largest consumer of refined petroleum and other proposed plans that the state is located to state run storage facilities and encouraging less gas use there will be a meeting tomorrow where all of this is going to be discussed. >> i cannot wait max gorden enke very much.

check the market i see some green on a monday morning it's always nice to see that the dow is up 67 and nasdaq down 70 the ten year treasury has been coming down it's down a bit for 42 while below for now present the price of gold was getting closer to $3000 an ounce now it is at 2956. bitcoin 95000 and change, 947 to be precise the price of oil $70 a barrel will it drop below 70 is at 7030 right now. guy benson on pushback to elon musk's request to detailed work week for federal employees, chicago schools to boost black student achievement is not divisive by picking out one race kennedy on democrats not figuring out the talking points are being ineffective sheriff chad on his bid to be the next governor of california. the 10:00 o'clock hour of "varney & company" is next.

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