pete: we are out on fox square. ed: it was a big crowd but we'll be back tomorrow. >> we are in christmas spirit and cheer. pete: join us tomorrow! ed: merry christmas. >> have a great morning. neil: all right, well, the rush is on. i'm not talking about the holiday rush but rush for simply more spending in washington and unfortunately, not for impeaching the democrats are stalling that, congress sending the president a flurry of bills before dashing out the door including dishing out a lot more money to keep those government doors open. now the one thing not being rushed for the time being is the impeachment articles, and sending it along to the u.s. senate as you probably heard, house speaker nancy pelosi had a standoff with her senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. some scholars are asking if those articles haven't been transferred, has the president really been impeached?

it's like it still fell, but you get my point but anyway a democratic presidential candidate whose getting quite the sensation responding to this impeachment fuss but not in the way you might think creating a firestorm of controversy there, and a lot more support for himself on the stump. that's right, andrew yang is here and only here this morning, and so is republican senator tim scott, who actually agrees, again we'll be speaking with both, but first to this ongoing showdown. good morning, everyone. happy to have you i'm neil cavuto and you are watching cavuto live, we thought we'd name it after me anyway we begin with garrett tenney in washington where this stands still, well still stands, yes. >> [laughter] well neil some of the parliament perspective at this point for the senate is almost like the articles of impeachment never happened. the senate can't conduct a trial , unless it has the articles and house speaker nancy pelosi is refusing to send them. she, and other democrats are concerned that a senate trial could back fire, so before sending over the articles of

impeachment, she wants to know more about how majority leader mitch mcconnell plans to run the trial. democrats want new additional witnesses to testify including acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney and former national security advisor john bolton, but since president trump wants the impeachment trial to be over as soon as possible, democrats are hoping they can get leverage by waiting to send the articles over to the senate. >> we at least want a fair trial. this is the only way we can negotiate for that. hopefully, things can be worked out and the trial can begin in early january. that gives us some leverage. we at least can draw attention to the fact that what we need is a real trial and not an indoor trump rally. >> mcconnell and other republicans argue pelosi is holding on to the articles of impeachment because she realizes her case against the president is weak and that a trial would hurt democrats, in 2020.

>> it is as if the house voted to impeach, and now they don't want to send it over to the senate, and your viewers, all probably are familiar with a grand jury. this would be like they are serving on a grand jury voting to indict somebody, but then the paperwork never gets finished, doesn't get sent to the court so there can't be a trial. >> the house is now out of session until january so that means nothing will be heading to the senate over the holidays in negotiations between now and then. neil: garrett thank you very very much my friend in washington. let's go to republican senator in south carolina, senator leadership tim scott senator good to have you. merry christmas. >> good morning, merry christmas, neil. neil: what kind of leverage do you suspect nancy pelosi is looking for in delaying sending these articles of impeachment to your colleagues in the senate?

>> there is no leverage that nancy pelosi has in the senate whatsoever, if she wants leverage in the senate she should have run for the senate from california. the truth is that the speaker of the house is not a member of the senate, so this is a confusing time in politics for all of us. democrats, republicans alike, have one thing in common. we are all confused by the actions of nancy pelosi. if this was seriously an emergency for the american people to see come to conclusion you would expect that a trial would have to be imminent, inevitable and necessary immediately, and according to her actions, all that the democrats have been selling in the house about how important this is, how we must reveal what has happened with the president, none of that seems to be true. we have found out that this is simply a partisan witch hunt,

nothing about impeachment is what it used to be. it is now more of a censure vote than it is an impeachment trial. neil: but one thing i'm curious about, senator, as you know democrats are saying that you might be shocked but same thing about you and your republican colleagues that it's a kabal against impeachment and you've already concluded specifically that there's no wrong on the part of the president, so it's a rigged game what do you say to that? >> well number one, the part of the house proceedings that were public, every senator watched, read about it and followed it very closely. the truth is that many of us have been able to see that body of evidence formulate in the public forum and we are un impressed, frankly, one of the reasons why speaker pelosi wants witnesses and more evidence to be revealed in the senate is because they did such a terrible job in the house that they now want to relate it gate the case

as opposed to having the senator s do or supposed to do as jurors, take the information, make a decision and move on, and unfortunately, for speaker pelosi, she a, has no leverage and b, it makes no sense and c, the information that she has provided is neither clear or compelling. neil: let me ask you this and we've gotten into this before, about misdemeanor and the president always said the phone call with the ukraine president was a perfect call. many of your colleagues have said well, it might not be impeachable but it was not a perfect call. it was a little dicey. where do you stand on that? >> yeah, so let's just hit the rewind button. number one, the president is innocent of any impeachable action as it relates to the transcript. number two, it was not in my opinion a perfect call. perhaps inappropriate, certainly not impeachable and here is what you have to remember about the transcript.

the transcript provides us a key piece of information. i call it evidence but it's really more information than evidence in this way that when you listen to the 15 witnesses that came before the house, only one witness had any conversation s whatsoever with the president, sonland, and the testimony started with yes there was a quid pro quo and ended that the president himself said no quid pro quo. here is what we know about that. the ukraine received aid they needed was out any pre- conditions being met, therefore, what has been suggested and/or said in the house, that the president required a quid pro quo, so that he could have dirt on the bidens , turned out to be undeniable false, false, neil, because there was no pre- conditions in receiving the aid on july 25 or so, when the

call was made, and the ukraine had no information that suggested that something was being held up and in fact, they received the aid without having -- neil: no doubt, no doubt and to your point, whether that's impeachable or not you might be proven right and certainly in the united states senate. i'm just curious your former colleague jeff flake who stepped down has said that republicans are embarrassing themselves by saying the president did nothing wrong. you argued the president when he said it was perfect it wasn't so there is obviously a sense from some of your colleagues that it wasn't all perfect. >> well no i think it's hard to argue that it was perfect. it's also harder to argue that it was impeachable and the delineation between perfection and impeachable they are world's apart and we should keep them that way and what we have to focus on is not really president trump. we should focus on a fact pattern that leads us to a conclusion, as it relates to it

being impeachable. that is our responsibility. not from a partisan perspective but as leaders in america, we should provide the people of our country with transparency and a conclusion. neil: whatever you get right? whenever it gets to the senate. senator always good seeing you. be well. >> thank you very much, neil. neil: senator scott, the read from andrew yang, the up and coming very popular democratic presidential candidate who agrees with a lot of what senator scott said this is getting to be a waste of time and losing focus for democrats. he will be joining me, on this show a little later on in the meantime, the delays in congress means this impeachment fight goes well into the 2020 presidential contest, we have the internationalout for the candidates, some slipping against the president, others who hope to hold their own with the president we've got fox news contributor kat timpf, and last but not least, new york city councilman, joe borelli. joe do you first on the back and

fourth on this. that there must be a method to this delay in getting the impeachment issues to the senate , but technically it means for the time being, that the president has not been impeached >> the fact that we're even arguing whether it's tomato or tomato whether he's in peached or not is just prima facia evidence that the democrats have failed. what we saw from the beginning is this was a reall it show impeachment with poorly-staged scripted drama for the cameras, as every democrat in the house tried to go do those confessiona l-style interviews with cable news camera trying to advance the narrative and do you know what? americans tuned out and they really aren't interested to see what happens in the next segment just as the poll numbers are now showing. neil: what do you think of this? >> well we remember back to the day he was impeached. there was no drama that day. we knew what was going to happen and in fact when people kept saying to me, what would you takeaway from the day it was nancy pelosi saying that i'm not going to send this over. that was the drama. that was the news of the day. neil: i know the drama when she

hushed it. >> [laughter] yes, but the other thing is there is a method to this and that is the last thing the democrats wanted was for this to go quietly into the good night over christmas and people go about their business and forget about it so i would suggest she's doing this not just to give chuck schumer some more amunition to negotiate but also because they want to keep this in the news. the last thing they want is for this to go away. i don't agree with that tactic but that is the message. neil: you could argue the longer it lingers the more damaging it is. >> i think it absolutely back fires for a couple reasons. first of all, this, we all know that he's going to be acquitted in the senate. anybody paying the slightest amount of attention knows that so that makes it even easier for the republicans to spin the delay as just an obstructionist and playing political gains and we see republicans already doing that and certainly we see donald trump already doing that. also support for impeachment is dropping, so the more that this is in the news and going on the more that's the 2020 candidates we'll have to talk about the more the democrats have to talk about it which keeps them from

talking about other positive things, like their policies or how they would change the lives of the american people, if they were in the presidency. they are going to be talking instead, more about something where the support for it is dropping. neil: you know the leverage argument. what you get for delaying it if you're nancy pelosi. no matter your politics on this, that where is the upside in pushing this back, or extracting or trying to do concessions if i'm mitch mcconnell and i say fine, we think it's a waste of time anyways, we made that clear but we never do it. >> no, no, it really made no sense that when leader mcconnell sort of pointed that out that you're trying to hold leverage with something i don't actually want. it was kind of late for the american people. i think nancy pelosi had to rely on sort of the process, and sort of the institutionalism of the house and senate, and by kicking the can, by delaying, by sort of showing that you really have no case to lay out before the senate i think she's ruined both of those things. neil: the back drop for all of

this we'll get into this throughout the next two hours of the show, it is the good economy the strong market. that's the back drop, and the president or republicans will keep season on that, they want to deflect attention from that. what do you think? >> i do think that and again, that's where the methodology comes from of withholding this. they want to keep impeachment in the news. they don't want to focus on other things, and so delaying that keeps it in the news, because if you send this over to the senate right now and as kat pointed out we know what's going to happen he's going to be acquitted it's a done deal. people are board. i go to the gym, nobody is . was sing this impeachment trial. right? neil: i feel bad now. >> they're watching you and of course i had a guy next to me watching an old basketball game and i asked him you're not watching the impeachment it's historic and he's like oh, done deal we know it's going to happen but this is why democrats keep this in the news because they want to focus on this and

not on other things. >> but trump isn't someone whose ever gone on the defensive he's going on the offensive with it saying look at these obstructionists, you can't get anything done. neil: it's a mess, we'll have more after this, andrew yang as well.

>> folks aren't measuring the economy by how the dow jones is looking. they're measuring the economy by how they are doing. >> this unemployment rate and gdp have very little relationship with people who lived the experience on the ground. >> the middle class is getting crushed and the working class has no way up for the consequence of that. >> the rising gdp and corporate profits is not being felt by millions of families across the country. >> trump goes around saying the economy is doing great. do you know what? real inflation accounted for wages went up last year, 1.1%. that ain't great! neil: all right, i don't think they are fans of president trump anyway the 2020 democratic

candidate is saying the economy is not working like it should and not the way the president wants to make you believe. jackie is looking at all of that and crunching the numbers. >> good to see you, neil. look the president does love to to the how well the economy is doing lots of tweets about it there's no doubt this is going to be a huge issue going into 2020. the other side, they're punching back poking holes in that to lessen the impact of what we call the economy card but what do people believe? well, a new poll shows that 76% believe the economy is good right now. that's the highest level since 2001. there are several reasons that they could feel this way, let's start with the stock market. remember, it's not a measure of the economy, per se, but it does have an impact because people's investments, their retirement plans are tied to its movement. the dow jones closed at 18, 332 on election day. today, 28, 455, that is a more than 50% increase, and a more than 10,000-point gain. what's remarkable about that is

that the bull market turned 10 earlier this year and actually usually when in the cycle it can turn down but it's still going. other factors, today unemployment a 50-year low that rate was as high as 10%, it's about 3.5% now, and 10% in 2009 of course because of the financial crisis, under obama it came down to 4.7% in 2016 some would say trump success here is just a continuation of the trend others would say taking it down from 4.7 to 3.5 is actually a greater challenge than when president obama did. now the president says it's because he cut taxes and red tape, let's take a look at gdp. a measure of growth. while the numbers here similar, with obamas as well in 2016 but the outliers at 3% in the first quarter, remember, trump has been fighting some major trade wars, obama was eight years out of the financial crisis. his numbers were not much better and the white house expects the positive trade impact to increase gdp number. we will see how that goes, neil

but a lot to watch. neil: jackie thank you very very much and put in perspective normally after a robust market year with the dow jones industrial up north of 22% nasdac close to 40%, it's hard to repeat that, the consensus seems to be building around a number like 6-7% in the presidential election year, we'll see. how it goes in 2020 could spell out who wins in 2020. the read on that, from a key player in the house, after this. drivers just wont put their phones down. we need a solution. introducing... smartdogs. the first dogs trained to train humans. stopping drivers from: liking. selfie-ing. and whatever this is. available to the public... never. smartdogs are not the answer. but geico has a simple tip. turn on "do not disturb while driving" mode. brought to you by geico.

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neil: all right, this is the scene right now in philadelphia, pennsylvania, it's a michael bloomberg event with his being a millionaire and not needing to rely on donations is he can't make the cut for the next debate , because you need at least 200 to 225,000 donations to your campaign, but if he was doing that then he has to rely on poll numbers that are significantly higher than the numbers he's getting right now so this process is actually not fair to billionaires. all right, meanwhile, what about this economy? is it fair to any of the democratic presidential

candidates? it's always a tough position to be in republican or democrat if you're trying to unseat the incumbent administration in good economic times, and there's a lot of history that proves how difficult it is. we've got wets management president aaron gibbs, political science professor and cpa and market analyst best selling author. you know, aaron one of the things that comes through is making the argument when they don't and you can always talk about a dichotomy and all of that but it was an uphill climb for mitt romney making that claim against barack obama in 2012 when the economy was clearly better than it was the four years prior. so it made it tough to say it's a bad economy. >> yeah, and look there are enough metrics when you talk about the economy that you might be able to find a couple points here and there, but when you're trying to pitch that to just the overall u.s. , and particularly this year, it's really hard because we've got a stock market that's up over 30% for the year, so that certainly doesn't help

any arguments in the economy isn't doing well even when we look at corporate america, and just looking at some of the jobs numbers. it's tough, i mean overall, if you look at most of the numbers they look really good. neil: we're going to rifle through some of the big ones but had we not had the meltdown in 2008 you could make the argument that john mccain and barack obama were dead even in the poll s. the meltdown happened, it was over, and so it was another reminder then and there are other years where your campaign ing at a time when things are good, and it makes it very very tough to counter that for people in alternatives to good. >> absolutely and it's an 80% re-election rate in the last 100 years for presidents running as an incumbent in a good economy so this is an up hill battle for democrats, and that's why they so badly want to make the case, that even though the economy is goodbye almost every estimation

as erin was talking about that this is not somebody who was presidential. look at his tweets look what he says, he's been impeached and yet what did they do last week? they, because of the impeachment , and because of their own electoral challenges had to help him push through usmca so they are walking a very fine line. neil: and they were very nervous in that case that it looked like this argument couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time which by the way quite easy to do. but they were well aware that that would be it. >> yeah, they had to do something, neil. they can't just be obstructionis ts overall. you have to stand for something other than being against donald trump. now, i believe that the only person out there right now that can beat donald trump is donald trump. we were talking about before, donald trump based upon this economy, and what's going on with the stock market should be enormously popular. his numbers should be off the charts and they're not.

why? because of these other things that he does. to me, we could talk about metrics and what's happening, the bottom line is this in my opinion. consumer confidence, because that's really saying people are feeling good and if people are feeling good, they're not going to want to change and that's the power of the incumbency in a good economy. neil: but you mentioned before, or the markets and one of the things that you hear from the democratic presidential candidate i think even yang was talking about this and it's something not relatable to most americans even though most are in the markets directly and indirectly but it's a tough shell so when the president keeps pushing the latest record on the dow, s&p, it does connect maybe it does with all of the other stuff but your thoughts? >> i certainly think when people are, let's say, reviewing their 401 (k), so i don't, it is a positive, but it may not be as

big of a positive as when the years when suddenly you get your quarterly or annual retirement statement, and suddenly its dropped and that's a big negative and so that's what would push somebody -- neil: you certainly notice it. >> when it goes down. neil: and it's out on the incumbent party right? >> and we don't know that it's up 30%. they just know they open their statement it's bigger than the last one you throw it in the trash. neil: is it your sense that that holds? i mean the president has got to hope that the wind is at his back, through next year. we know it's hard to repeat a big year like this, but we usually see an up-tick, a smaller up-tick, what do you think? >> you know the president has so much leverage at his power he is going to use every single piece he can to make sure this economy holds through november next year, and he has the ability to do that. we've seen that with phase i of the china trade deal, right?

that was very important for him electorally because soybean and the farmers in the midwest, this is going to be a tight election for all those reasons dan mentioned his poll numbers are not great as they should be so he needs to appeal particularly in the midwest that allows him to do that so he's going to use that. i still wouldn't be surprised if we see an infrastructure deal and i never would have said that except both the president and democrats now have an incentive to show the american public they are working for them in an infrastructure deal. neil: they are both trying to prove impeachment isn't a roadblock. >> and fascinating congress isn't working until you get an impeachment and that is fascinating. neil: or a deadline. >> right. neil: we'll take a quick break and i'll be asking 2020 democratic presidential candidate andrew yang why he thinks he would be better for the economy than the president. very novel idea, but first the trump campaign is claiming this week that the democratic house, the majority james clyburn actually called for the president to be hanged. we went through the tape. he didn't quite say that but we thought he would come on to

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neil: all right, we live in a very shall i say nasty political world. i don't think that's a fox news alert which is why we did not alert it but i should tell you that the democrat majority whip james clyburn found it in the hard way under fire this week for comments that he made for using a phrase hang him, when discussing a delay of sending

impeachment articles to the united states senate and we're putting this in perspective i want you to hear the whole comment. >> if he doesn't come around, to commit to a fair trial, keep those here, so keeping it here, and he's told you what he's going to do, it's like let's give him a fair trial and hang him. i mean, that's it. neil: all right, the reason that i wanted to play that whole bite is everyone is zeroing in on the fact that he said "hang the president." he did not say that. we thought we would be fair to the congressman that is not what he said but again we live in these nasty times where people take things out of context much as has been said about the president and his supporters and say democrats are seizing on his nasty remarks about congressman dengel, the longest-serving congressman in the united states history who is looking up from hell. we've got the house majority whip with us right now, james cl

yburn. thank you so much for having me. neil: what did you think of the response you got maybe given the comments and the reaction the president got on his congressman dengel comments that it was the latest evidence that man, hell has no fury like an opposition party storm. >> [laughter] well thank you. you know, i've been in this business a long time. i was elected president of my naacp youth chapter when i was 12 years old. i started organizing sit-ins as an 18 and 19-year-old. i been in jail, and i've been on trial, and that's all i was saying. all of these trials back then were pre-ordained. it was mitch mcconnell was saying to us send those articles over here, we are going to rig this trial, and we're going to acquit this president and we are going to go forward and that's what i was talking about.

it's the reverse of giving somebody a fair trial, and hanging them. neil: no, i understand that but republicans have said the same thing that it was a rigged process all of the votes for impeachment came from democrats not a single republican. your process was rigged the other way, so what do you say? >> i'll say it was not. when you say to the president please come and testify, send all your people over here, and let them testify, and under oath that's what we offered. that's what he refused. so how do you say we are rigging it, when all we are asking them to do is going to be a product. neil: then i'm not a lawyer, maybe you are but i don't understand the leverage. >> no, i'm not. neil: nancy pelosi gets, from holding off on sending those articles to the senate. am i missing something because mitch mcconnell heard that and said all right, fine then, we don't have an impeachment trial.

>> well the precedent in this country, i think that we do, let's just look at what was done when bill clinton was impeached. 100 senators voted for the process. 100, it was a bipartisan process you put it on the floor and everybody bought into it and then we went forward. why won't mitch mcconnell do the same thing here? neil: but that process, sir, just to be clear in that process i covered that impeachment that's how old i am, you're just a spring chicken compared to that but anyway, i covered that. >> no, sir. neil: one thing that i remember is that they didn't hold off getting those articles to the senate. here, nancy pelosi for the life of me i can't figure out what she, what democrats might get out of that. >> she didn't have to hold off. neil: no she didn't, why not? >> because we don't know whether we should send two managers or 22 managers.

if we knew what the process was, we would know what to do. we do not have the process. neil: but that's the senate's process right? you're not there to judge them, nor are they to judge you, right >> the senate develops it, but it's the country's process. neil: but are you worried it's looking bad for democrats but it looks like you're being everything you said republicans were, saying about the house, that you're compounding it. >> well the political process is a little bit like beauty. it's in the eyes of the beholder it looks very good to me, and to my constituents, what nancy pelosi is doing is demonstrating once again that we are a country of laws, not of men, or women, and in this instance, one man. neil: all right, congressman always good seeing you thank you for clarifying all of that. we thought we deserve to be fair to you and get the exact words out that you said.

have a merry christmas. >> well same to you and thank you so much for doing that. neil: all right congressman. in the meantime, you know, the new star wars movie is out a lot of you have been critical of being star wars. the whole series is stupid and i think that i have the numbers now to prove it. after this.

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walker, did what it was supposed to do, get a lot of people in the theaters, not as many maybe they were counting on given the mixed reviews the film made about $40 million on its opening night, about $90 million so far but still puts it up there in the elite of elite films but again it's not that widely critically appraised entertainment journalist is here what did you think of the response that it's getting? >> you know, i think that it's what you would expect. this is 42 years in the making this is a 42-year long saga, three different trilogies how could it please everyone after all of that? neil: why couldn't we stop after the first one? >> because obviously if you look at this last trilogy look at what happened with the force awakens the last jedi those made over $200 million opening weekend at the box office we needed a satisfying ending and people are getting that. i think there was a lot of people unhappy with the last jedi which was the previous one in this trilogy so what this

aims to do is correct the wrongs a lot of people had. neil: but they lie through their teeth. just when you think they're done with this you think they are signaling there are others. >> but not for another three years. this kind of ends the saga, for again these what kind of franchise lasted for 42 years not very many and this one has. neil: i know bob iger was concerned maybe they were running them too close together they wanted to spread the wealth and that might be a good strategy. >> i think when disney first acquired they wanted to make it like marvel like release a star wars movie every year and that didn't work out so well. solo didn't really do too well. neil: but marvel released a different super hero. >> right. neil: this is the same thing that they still have all of that nonsense? >> they do. [laughter] neil: so now they are going to see that. >> i'm a secret star wars fan. neil: not really although i like the yoda character. >> okay baby yoda is bringing the country together, you think

there's division everyone loves yoda. neil: very wise little guy. is it your sense though that disney can just leverage off of this, with the streaming service , everything else, another weapon in the arsenal? >> well that's the thing that yes, this incarnation of this maybe won't do as well as the first two but it doesn't matter because you now have the stream ing service and disney plus, and you have the mandalore an, bringing in a whole new generation of people interested in star wasnd and then the theme park rides. neil: why didn't george lucas go to the debut? >> again it's not the same star wars as it was years ago. but again you're bringing in a whole new fan base so three years from now there will be another star wars saga, but again, that's not where i think the future of star wars is. it isn't streaming, which everyone isn't streaming now. the future of all movies i think are. neil: it's already 25 million streaming customers now. yes, exactly. i mean, if you think about the properties that are there, what people are seeing there, disney

plus, netflix, there's is really dominating and the story of the box office this year really is disney. disney movies, six movies this year made over $1 billion global ly. i think that this one could be the seventh one. neil: wow, and they each have a ride to go with them. >> yes, then you go to disney parks and you get on the rides. neil: there you go great to see you, you follow this far better than i can comprehend she knows what she's talking about. mine are just old man bias. when we come back the clock ticking for your holiday shopping but we've got good ideas for you. in fact, some very affordable ideas as that. after this. ♪ ♪ ♪

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neil: it's like being in santa's workshop, i've been waiting on this one for a long long time the last minute holiday gift deals for all of you procrastinators, what are you doing watching this show! keep it on, split camera, get out to the store or consider these ideas, i've got lifestyle expert, i always love watching her she's so enthusiastic even when everyone is like for gods sake i have to get out to the store. very good to see you. >> thank you, nice to see you too. neil: we've got a couple of goodies here. >> there's still time. don't worry. we can still have things shipped to us, it's no problem. neil: you can still ship now? >> absolutely. neil: wow okay. >> of course you can.

oh, yeah they put rushes on shipping. you might have to spend a little bit more. not much though. especially on amazon not to worry so okay so first off i have a really amazing beautiful watch. this is the grain master watch collection from original grain. these are actually hand crafted, and this is really interesting. it's inspired by the racing automotive industry, so take a look at it. you get a closer look. this is actually, it has wood, and steel, that's what it's made of. neil: how much is it? >> this is 595, wait to 895. neil: 500? >> stand by. 40% off the entire site, now that's good, right? neil: so 40% off the 595? >> yes but this is their luxury watch. they do have lower price points but i have to tell you i always use deals.net, you can put deal alerts so say you want this watch and cheaper and put a deal alert in and it'll come back and tell you where you can find it.

neil: understood. >> but this is the luxury it's really beautiful, and it's where they do plant a tree for every watch that you buy. isn't that cool? neil: can we check that? >> yeah, we can check it why not. neil: they say that but i'm sure they do. >> of course they do. neil: they need to bring the price point down a little bit. >> yes because it's 40% off. neil: do you have something that isn't 595? >> oh, obstructionist so there's lots of other watches that are different price points, they are all across-the-board. yeah. neil: what else? >> this is just the special one so this is the amazon devices we all love amazon devices right? so we have actually the echo dot with a new speaker system in it, which is awesome, the echo show 5 which you can read along with a recipe, you can watch videos on it. this actually has a little slider that slides right over the camera, so you can turn that on or off, and are we coming from a place or yes? neil: no, no, no!

well all right if you're not wow ing me here, what else? >> i'm going to wow you right now. this is actually awesome. [laughter] this is the kindle kids addition so now what i love about this, hold this, not that one but this , read a book. not yet but this actually, this comes with parental controls, and it actually has a one year of kids free time unlimited which is amazon and you can get apps and games on it. neil: that's a very crisp screen >> it is and it's also distraction free. neil: and how much is that? >> this is actually well let me see i've got a special on this this is 84.99 so it is $25 off the echo dot is 24.99 which is $25 off. this is $30 off. neil: okay now you're talking my language here. >> and it's amazon so you can get it overnight, same day in some areas. neil: understood. now what do we got? >> this is really fun so the secondhand clothing industry is really booming right now particularly because millennials

and generation z, my daughter is a generation z, and they love thrifting, so this is threadup .com it's the world's largest online thrift store, and they actually say that in five years it's going to be a $51 billion industry. is that amazing? and the reason -- neil: well what is it? >> so let me explain. so threadup.com is a site where you can hand in your clothes and they will take photographs of it and they will sell it and give you a price for it or you can also buy things on there, so they have over 35,000 brands, all the way up from gap to gucci neil: if you didn't like the gifts you got for christmas, you could say hey, i got you the watch, okay! >> no, they love the wood watch remember but they do have a gift card. neil: that's a good idea. they have a gift card now so it comes in increments of 25-$50 up to $100 which is awesome so just get a gift card and e-mail it to them and that's threadup.com. now this is really exciting. you know baby yoda was a thing,

right? this season? neil: yes. >> well did you know that baby yoda is actually not baby yoda? according to disney. it's actually called the child. the fans nicknamed it baby yoda. nobody confirmed that it was yoda. i spoke to disney officials and they told me that and so the merchandise has not hit the market yet. this is the first market merchandise for baby yoda, right here, today. this is it. neil: well that was worth the price of getting up. >> it sure was. neil: now what about this? >> this is a tumbler. neil: this involves one of my staff members and i want to see his career implode. this is what? >> this was so fun. this is the razor go-kart and it comes in two different adjustable speeds. there it goes! neil: all right >> this is awesome. 199 if you get it on razor.com and it gifts and it moves. you have to be six and older. neil: well that's jake. >> and the adults can ride it

obviously. neil: obviously. >> so it's all sizes. neil: sorry, jake. >> there you go. neil: top of his class one of the brightest students going his career is just right there. we have a lot more coming up. you were terrific. verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. newday has extended our call center hours so that every veteran in america can take advantage of this unexpected drop in interest rates. one call can save you $2000 every year. to start saving on your next mortgage payment go to

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>> all right. well, the president is not hiding out after the impeachment vote. anything but. he'll be speaking later today at a conservative student action summit going on in west palm beach florida after holding a big rally in michigan, the night of the impeachment vote. we've never seen that in history. and good morning, rich. >> the president left the house where they voted to impeach him to west palm beach. the hotels here are filled with young conservatives, young trump supporters for the student action conference and that's where president trump will address them tonight around 5:00 in the evening. but before leaving, the

president did sign a few bills on his way down here. he signed a defense policy, bills to fund the federal government ensuring there is no repeat of last year's partial government shutdown. the white house highlighted the defense spending in the plan, including a $22 billion increase for the pentagon, 3.1% pay raise for the troops. the establishment of a u.s. space force, funding for the department of veterans affairs, in all about a trillion and a half dollars in annual government spending overall. the president also secured a deal this week with democrats on the u.s.-mexico-canada free trade agreement and accepted speaker pelosi's invitation for the state of the union address february 4th, potentially when the president will be on trial in the senate. democrats and republicans are at odds on what a potential impeachment trial would look like. >> i think many of us would like to hear from some of the witnesses, i would, witnesses that did not come forward. the president didn't allow certain witnesses to come

forward. i think it's important for us to get the if you will picture before we make that decision. >> the president's attorneys were in capitol hill yesterday meeting for about an hour on the senate side working with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. there are republicans who say they want to get the trial done as quickly as possible and vote to acquit the president as soon as you can. neil. neil: you look a little uncomfortable and happy there, rich. >> only gets more comfortable and happier. neil: i bet. thank you, my friend. in the meantime, house speaker nancy pelosi is holding up the articles of impeachment and getting them to the senate. one of the democrats at the impeachment hearing saying the president isn't impeached until she formally does that. right now we have no impeached president. is the speaker defying her duties? we'll ask. ryan, everyone saw on tv the impeachment vote, but it doesn't

count unless it is formally sent to the senate? >> i don't agree with that, neil. i think that the process has been delayed, paused stopped, but the impeachment itself happened. we look in the constitution, it says if the house can impeach with a simple majority and once that vote is taken, the president is impeached. and the articles need to move over to the senate to go to trial. i don't think they've avoided impeaching him with this pause. neil: and we'll know, it's obstruction of justice and buabe of power. can the senate take it without the documents being sent to them? >> no, it's actually a formal process they need to take. the problem here, i asked what the motivation is. if the democrats were in such a race to impeach president trump, which they were. they said it was a matter of security, this he had to hurry up and get this done, then they should be rushing the articles over to the senate to get this going.

if they wanted to delay it because they thought somehow would hurt trump politically more, then they wouldn't have rushed so much, they'd still be trying to impeach. this isn't just pumping the breaks, this is getting out of the car completely by stopping this way. i don't know their motivation is other than pure politically posturing. neil: cliburn said it was as much about a protest and the senate, and going about this. i'm no constitutional expert, i'm just wondering who are you to judge what the senate does? you've had it, it's been in your park and now you have to hold it to them and it's in their park. >> we agree. neil: i don't get what a delay gets nancy pelosi or democrats. >> i think they're trying to distance themselves from what's going on here. i think it's not popular in polling and i think this is a way they can make try and make it go away. you're right about the power though. the two houses in the legislature, the senate cannot

flex muscle over the house and the house can't do it over the senate in this way. imagine the articles not being delivered meant there wasn't impeachment, i've said i don't agree with. and the senate to accept them and they're not allowed to operate that way. and i've heard it say that trump is not above the law and this is like the grand jury having put out in the public and being indicted and not getting your trial to try to clear your name. i think it's gross. neil: it kind of sounds like a quid pro quo thing. >> a little this for that. neil: an interesting read on this. we don't know when this gets to the senate's hot little hands. we know it could be a while, all of this as the president is using this to fire up his base,

and get a lot of things done, also appears to be hijacking some of the democrats' agenda to attract voters outside of that base. and he passed congress for paid family leave for workers and democrats are trying to prove that they can walk and chew gum at the same time. as i stress it's not a herculean difficult task. the fact that each side is reminding the other and the country that other stuff is getting done is said to be a net benefit to both. that the way it's going to sort out? back with us, kat, joe, jeanie, dan. all right. jeanie, to you first on this. delay doesn't mean denied. in other words, impeachment process will sometime finish out there, then what? >> you know, i think that he has been impeached and they're going to hold this, they cannot hold it indefinitely. they have to send it to the senate and i think we'll see a fairly speedy acquittal and i don't think there's going to be much leverage with schumer to

push the republicans too far. the only sort of suspension i can see is if you see some moderate republican, like maybe a cory gardner or a mitt romney or a murkowski for collins come over with the democrats in terms of the rules and beyond that-- >> that's an important distinction and that's one of the things, some of the republicans she mentioned might be open and might strongly suggest witnesses and testimony. that doesn't mean they would vote for impeachment, they would welcome or want that. what do you think? >> i think if they're going to go down the line of having witnesses and it goes into basically a full-blown hearing. neil: right. >> i think it's mutually assured destruction for both sides. i don't think it's in either side's best interest to really go down that road and i think ultimately the republican senators will fall in line to not want to have it. neil: i don't see it moving the needle. if you talk to those who are inclined impeach the president and heave him out of office,

they still feel that way, just as many of those on the other side totally against that. we've just talked to congressman cliburn, said it's a rigged process and the republicans are proving, and exactly what the republicans have been saying about the process in the house. so is it moving minds? >> i don't think so and i think it doesn't matter how long they draw it out, it's still going to happen. when you were talking how, it's the reality is the reality has been impeached. i thought of that seinfeld episode where george realizes his girlfriend is going to break up with him so he avoids her so if he never sees her again then at the can't technically break up. neil: it sounds like so many of my relationships. >> the exact same thing. just because they never said them doesn't mean we can neverly actually have him acquitted. he's impeached. he's going to get acquitted in the senate regardless how long. nobody's minds are changing, i completely agree. neil: and the back drop is still the same back drop. if you want to give the president credit for that.

certainly be getting the blame if things are going south. where does it ultimately go? >> i disagree with dan that it would be mutually destructive. neil: here we go. >> no, you did not. >> no, i did. dan is great and all, but he's wrong with this one. neil: you don't have to make excuse. if dan screwed up. >> whether you listen to kelly clarkson, or freed niche, whatever doesn't kills you makes you stronger. neil: did you just connect-- that's true. this was supposed to be the head of the dragon chopped off and poll after poll rpc average is up 3 points where it was from the low. and gallup poll, up 6 and impeachment down. the more cards overturned and more delays from pelosi and it's apparent they have no case to put forward, the stronger trump gets. >> may i respond. neil: sure. >> thank you. >> because i was mentioned. joe, what i'm trying to say here

is that we already know that he's not going to be removed from office no matter which way this goes. this is really about the 2020 election. and what i'm saying is, is that the more witnesses that you bring in front of the senate, it stands to damage trump potentially on what, you know, bolton may say or some of the others or mick mulvaney and then hunter biden on the or side. >> excuse me? >> our folks are controlling the pace. our leadership is essentially controlling who the witnesses are and the direction the trial will go. so, i definitely disagree. i definitely disagree. neil: isn't that the rap against it though, the democrats think it's a little too cozy, that senate-white house coordination. now, we should point out, republicans are saying that about the kabal going after him in the house and hence my original argument minds are not going to be changed. >> this helps the president, the more partisan this is seen, the more it helps the president. this is seen as a partisan, whether you want to call it a

witch hunt or-- >> in the battle ground states in particular, it's drifting lower. >> it's drifting lower, the longer it drags out the less popular it seems to get. i would not say that impeachment is good for anybody or any president, but certainly as far as 2020 is concerned. if that gets his base out in a close election. >> it made bill clinton more popular. >> he wasn't up for election. and if it gins the base up and i could add in seinfeld-- >> andrew yang is going to be on later. and there are marketable issues to raise, paraphrase, around the economy and their alternative and this side tracks that, what do you maim make of that. >> it seems that democrats are get side tracked more than

donald trump is, even though he's the one that's gone on trial here. democrats are asked about it more often in the debates. >> he's not helping himself with tweets and-- >> he never is, okay? he never is with the tweets. that's absolutely sure, but if you're running to, you know, take the seat of an incumbent president you want to talk about how you're going to change the lives of americans, talk about policy. you don't want to just be focused on impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. neil: but of those candidates yang is the only one doing that. >> he sure is. >> you know who else is doing it? donald trump. there was the signed paid sick leave for families. historic funding to black colleges. he's hijacking the democrats, and incredible headlines and the stock breaking-- >> and the thing about a longstanding congressman and curses himself. >> and he says things that

angers a certain segment of people. neil: not just a certain segment, a lot of people. >> and even lindsay graham commented on that. doom and gloom is predicted. >> and let's be clear, tulsi gabbard obviously she voted present and she has not been, but listen, it's hard to be a democrat these days and go against impeachment and both yang and gabbard have been the few exceptions to that. neil: thank you all very, very much. a black eye for boeing yet again. this time it was trying to take attention off the 737 max by focusing what it's doing in space and it stumbled in space. what now? after this.

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frightening moments for pat jearse on two cruise ships in mexico. and they were trying to dock, and trying to understand how that happens in slow motion. six people were hurt and carnival says that both ships will continue operating as normal. no word what caused that. and cxs train derailed at harper's ferry, west virginia, two ended up in potomac river. luckily, no one was on board except for the conductor. things not better in the skies as boeing encountered stiff problems for its starliner capsule supposed eventually get men and women up to the space station without hitching a ride. jackie has more on that. >> it was another black eye for boeing, but depends who you ask. look, the company's starliner failed the key test to reach the

international space station, the company praised the launch saying that's what tests are for, critical for gathering information to make key changes. others are saying, this is just another failed attempt to execute after a very difficult year for the company and the grounding of its 737 max jet following two fatal crashes. the test purchased in cape canaver canaveral, florida, a timing error kept it from orbit it would need to reach the space station. boeing couldn't immediately explain what happened. boeing is of course competing with spacex on the missions and that's emon musk's company. and spacex did a similar test in march. nasa administrator jim bridenstine says it has to do with automation. implying if humans had been on board, perhaps they could have detected the problem and stopped

the function. and landing at white sands in new mexico. to put this in context the u.s. space agency granted 4.2 billion, 2 1/2 to spacex to work initiatives. because the nasa program was critical to get to the space station from u.s. soil. and i want to bring to your attention that boeing stock was down this week, neil, after another banner week for the stock market. neil: nominally up on the year, and when the average is around 30. but just remarkable. thank you, very, very much. meanwhile we've got the 2020 presidential candidate andrew yang coming up and some say he scored the most points from the debate by not focusing on something. what that something was. it's happened yet again, another chinese national arrested for tresspassing over at mar-a-lago

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iowa. elizabeth warren the featured speaker. the candidates are having a busy day on the stump. michael bloomberg, for example, in pennsylvania. elizabeth warren will make the debate criteria on the first debate of the new year. as things stand now, there are some doubts as to whether andrew yang will, even with his performance that was praised by all sides. we're going to talk to him about that and where the race standsment shortly in the meantime, we're keeping a look at developments halfway across the world right now in north korea. saber rattling and indicating that it's open to still more missile tests, including ones that are presumably a no-no, a long range missile test against the promises that the hermit nation has made to president trump. and good to have you. >> good morning, neil. neil: they're saber rattling and using it to force talks with the united states. what do you think of that?

>> well, i don't think they're going to be able to force anything, even if they do conduct a missile test short range or long range with an icbm. they're trying to get some type of pressure on united states to get us back to the negotiating table with lifting of sanctions and quite frankly, that isn't going to happen. president trump has held the line on that with secretary of state pompeo, and i think we're going to continue to hold the line. at the end of the year, if they have not decided to start a path toward denuclearization, we're going to increase sanctions, probably. neil: i don't get their strategy here. you know, the president has, you know, quietly allowed them to speak this way. i don't know why. and yet, they keep pushing and throwing it back in his face. there's going to be a time where he's going to say enough with you. >> i think that president trump has approached this differently than previous administrations.

obviously having met with kim jong-un, having given him some of that good language and positive space to move in, but by the same token, he's been hard and held the line. you must give us a definable and verifiable path to denuclearization before we are going to lift one sanction. the meeting has not occurred. they're going to try to do things to stir it up. let's forget, north korea is not going to start on a path of denuclearsization unless they're squeezed and we, the united states, holding countries like russia and china, violating sanctions and propping up the regime accountable. there are going to be ripple effects after this. if they decide to shoot a long range missile that's a clear indication they were never interested in it. i think that former national security advisor john bolton was spot on when he said they're not

going to denuclearize, at least president trump gave them a chance in the eyes of the world. neil: and a lot of people say that the president has an affection for rogues, for nut case leaders, turkey, erdogan, even vladimir putin. do you think that's fair, a justified criticism that he withholds nasty comments on leaders who are not great people? >> well, neil, i'd look at it as what is the traditional way of doing things gotten us? nothing. these people don't change so president trump is trying a different tact, a different technique and giving them a little bit of room and not denigrating them in the eyes of the world. if that doesn't work, he's holding the line. at the end. day you have to look at what he's done not what he has said or not said. consequently, when you look at sanctions that we have imposed

on north korea, on iran, on china that have been involved supporting the north korean regime. when you look at what we've done with russia, those sanctions are taking a bite and that's what matters is holding that line. neil: well, north korea is still provocative and iran is still crazier than a bed bug. turkey still makes incursions into syria and buys weapons from russia. that's weird. >> nothing has changed essentially with their behavior. china has cut back a little bit and enforced some of the sanctions that we've asked them to. russia has stopped providing some of the coal that we've asked them to. at the end of the day, that regime is still going to continue to do what it's done. let's remember, they have not conducted a nuclear test since 2017. that's an unprecedented path that we gave them and here we are at 2019. they have not come to the table with that verifiable path and that's what's going to count and i think you'll see the president react accordingly to sanctions.

neil: and thank you for your incredible service to this country. you're a modest guy and you never say that, but i thought i'd remind people of that. the u.s.s. cole commander. and another china national arrested fortretrespassing on mar-a-lago. yet, it's happened again. why? here's record-breaking news for veterans.

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trespassing over at mar-a-lago in the days when the president was going to be celebrating the break there during christmas. another chinese nationalist was charged last with trespassing and back with us is dan. what happened here that you know of? >> yeah, hi, neil. what happened basically is that, in my view, the chinese intel service is pinging mar-a-lago. they're trying to find out the best ways to defeat the security system both when the president is in residence such as last march and currently when he's out of residence. so they're probably building a baseline, some type of matrix to see the best way to get their people in and out and collect the type of information they're looking for on that presidential facility. neil: what kind of security --

obviously, this has gotten to be the winter white house for the president just as new jersey golf course estate is in the summertime. obviously, you obviously lock it down and make it secure. how does this happen? >> that's the problem, neil, you can't really lock down a club like mar-a-lago. you have a number of members who pay a very high amount of money, about $200,000 initiation fee, plus their monthly bill, so it's a very exclusive club and for that reason, you just, you can't shut it down like you can the white house or camp david. neil: you know, the chinese have always been suspected of spying on us and locking in and copying data from corporations who want to do business there, even if they don't, and spying on military operations, but when you can work your way up to the most powerful man on the planet, at that gets a little scary. >> it's a problem, neil.

you know, that facility down there, you've got the ocean out there in the front so unless you put a seal platoon out there with rigid inflatable boats and you put platoon of marines around the compound like you have at camp david, it's very difficult and having done a number of sites at private clubs when i was on the presidential detail, one of the first rules of doing a site at their places is don't inconvenience the members. so that's really what they're looking at and that's what they're up against in terms of trying to make the place as secure as possible. neil: you know, in the case of the last woman, you know, when she was apprehended by secret service, she argued she was on a guest list and turns out she wasn't. she had gotten pretty far along. >> yeah. neil: i don't know the details here, but, you know, it's pretty impressive for the same country essentially to pull the same stunt. >> neil, you know, china, they

are the ultimate collectors. they collect information on things that they need right now in real-time. they collect information on things they may never need and they collect information on things they may not need for 20 or 30 years. they have unlimited number of analysts to look through the information and presidential security is something they've always been interested in. where does it go? how do we get in there? they're not really a physical threat in terms of assassination, they're more a threat in terms of trying to get in and learn what's going on, who is he meeting with? what are the conversations? those are the type things they're going for. now, the woman arrested back in march. she had more of a sophisticated approach and the president was in residence at the time. p the one just arrested she had nothing on her except for an expired visa. she looks like someone in the crowd you would never suspect.

i believe her mission was to see how far she could get on the compound before she was confronted by security and then when she was confronted, she went into her little act of, i don't speak english, i don't know what mar-a-lago is. all that have is bogus. she knew quite well what she was doing in my view and she accomplished her mission. neil: dan, thank you very much. all right the democratic presidential candidate andrew yang telling democrats maybe stop obsessing over impeachment and maybe start obsessing over something else. he's here. >> what we have to do is we have to stop being obsessed over impeachment.

>> what we have to do is we have to stop being obsessed over impeachment, which unfortunately strikes many americans like a ball game where you know what the score is going to be and start actually digging in and

solving the problems that got donald trump elected in the first place. we have to take every opportunity to present a new positive vision for the country, a new way forward to help beat him in 2020 because make no mistake, he'll be there at the ballot box for us to defeat. neil: this is the only time donald trump said i agree with something a democratic presidential candidate said and that caused shock waves in the last presidential debate, one that a lot of people said andrew yang won handily, at least challenging party consensus on a whole host of things including impeachment. he joins me right now. andrew, good to have you. >> it's great to be here, thank you for having me, neil. neil: the reaction you're getting is something that's picked up considerably since you and i sat down first after you joined the joist. race. >> i'm pleased, i'm thrilled. i felt there's an appetite for a different apoach to politics.

i'm not a politician, i'm a parent and and-- >> we should explain, you're an entrepreneur so you're not keen on some of the ideas that your opponents have like a wealth tax. where do you stand? >> yeah, i think a lot of the ideas coming out of the party could use some reexamination. neil: like what? >> well, the wealth tax example you raised, the fact is, germany, france, denmark, sweden, all tried a wealth tax and repealed it because it didn't work. if you're the democratic party we should be putting forward ideas that we have confidence in that will work because they've worked in other places, not ideas that we've seen problems with in other countries. neil: the rap against your party, and it may be led by the most vocal critics, that it hates rich people. bernie marcus, the co-founder of home depot was on with me yesterday and railing against that sentiment from elizabeth warren. i want you to react to that. >> sure. >> look at her, how much money

is she worth today and what the hell did she do to get that money? did she work the way i worked? i doubt it very much. neil: what did you think of that? >> i think that if the democratic party does antagonize anyone who has made a certain amount of money in our society, to me, you should be praising people who succeed because many of them worked very, very hard to get where they are. and the question is, how do we balance the economy so it works for more people, for more of us. the tough part, americans can sense that the american dream is slipping away for more and more of us. if you were born in this country in the 1940's, 93% chance you'd do better for your parents. in the '90s, a 50-50 shot and it's declining fast. that's what we have to fix. fixing that does not necessarily mean trying to demonize anyone who has been successful. neil: all right, but when you look at donald trump and you look the at fact that he talks

about the stock market, talks about job gains and then i hear candidates talking about the fact that, you know, this is an awful economy, for a lot of people there's a disconnect there. i know you draw a distinction between companies might be making money hand over fist, but that doesn't mean you have fewer bankruptcies or fewer americans-- it's a tough sell. >> when you reflect back to the donald trump, fake news and that americans were leaving the work force. neil: is that to say the gains we're having aren't real? >> there are gains in the topline measurements, but they don't correspond to the day-to-day experience of many millions americans around the country and i see this firsthand when i campaign. when you say the stock market is doing well, this might be different for people who are watching your program, frankly. because the top 20% of american

house olds hold 92% of stock market wealth and bottom 50% hold essentially zero. if i say hey, great news, the stock market is up. for half of americans it's irrelevant. neil: for half of americans it is not. >> yes. neil: and at fox business if you don't get, you should demand. if you say that, you're right. you're focusing on the half who are not, but obviously. half are. they're liking what they're saying. >> if you have a lot of stocks, you're happy when prices go up. the bottom-- and we've got to balance the economy for more american and that doesn't get in the topline measurements. neil: you're the son of immigrants from taiwan. >> yes. neil: and i report a lot on china, what it's doing. if you were to become president of the united states, how would

you deal with the chinese? of course, no fans of this country ever making over to taiwan. that would be tricky, wouldn't it? >> our job has to be to outcompete the chinese, particularly in artificial intelligence that could well define the next century. one story i like to share, more people in china watched artificial intelligence beat the game than the super bowl. for them artificial intelligence is the super bowl. the government is acting accordingly, putting tens of billions to work. our jobs has to be okay, we see the game, we can't let chinese leapfrog us in ai, we have to remain the leader. if we do that they'll be much better able to push our values and positions to the chinese more successfully. >> would you be any more pro

levelling the playing field and recognizing taiwan on equal footing with china? >> i have family in taiwan and i think that the status quo is something that we should preserve, which is that it's working well on both sides of the strait and there's no reason for that to change in my view. >> your presidential run, you talk about things that other candidates don't talk about, the impeachment focus, for example. is it that-- you're not saying it was a mistake, but that the obsession over it is and maybe the party heard you or nancy pelosi and others, by demonstrating they could walk and chew gum at the same time. they must be worried that what you're saying is right. >> i'm not sure that it's all me. i've said on the debate stage that it strikes many americans

like a ball game you know the outcome. neil: and does it affect a delay-- . i think that many americans have opinions what the president did and whether it rises to the level of impeachment. neil: and you think he should be impeached. yeah, i think that delaying aid to a foreign leader is beyond the pale and impeachment is the remedy. at the same time we have to face facts that impeachment is unlikely to succeed without 20 republican senators having a change of heart or a change of mind. and so, the most likely outcome is donald trump saying total vindication, total exoneration in two-months or so and those are two months that we could have been using to make a positive case to the american people about solving the problems in our communities that in my view helped get donald trump elected in the first place. neil: the last time you were here your campaign just started.

you talked about this idea of giving everybody in the united states $1,000, no matter who you are, a billionaire or bloomberg. and no way we could pay about that. the value added tax at 10% so you raise taxes to pay for that. you say? >> well, you've got to look up and say-- this is like a willy sutton joke i like to share, why do you rob banks? because that's where the money is. where is the money going in our economy, amazon a trillion dollar tech company paying zero in taxes and closing 30% of the america's stores and malls while doing it and no one likes the fact that amazon is paying zero in taxes and i talk to republicans and they're not like, yeah, amazon with zero taxes, the way it ought to be. so if you put a toll where we get our fair share, a tiny, tiny fair share of every amazon share, every google search, and

facebook ad. and truck model and ai unit. we could generate. neil: talking about disposable income that would goose the economy. >> many americans are living pay check to paycheck. you put it in their hands and it's going to get into the economy, car repairs and others that make the economy stronger. neil: you become president snaugs day, are you going to wear a tie? >> that's a great question, neil. i will do whatever the american people may want me to do. maybe i should put up a poll, should andrew wear a tie to his inauguration. i have nothing against ties. >> and would or should a presidential wear a tie to inauguration. good to see you. we have more including ideas

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>> all right. still getting a lot of buzz onened drew yang moments ago, talking about the fact that

obsession on impeachment hurt the democrats. we've got dan, what are you saying we have to be the much party of ideas and as much as you hate donald trump-- >> one thing i want to comment on being an accountant the concept of the freedom dividend giving everyone $1,000, it sounds a little crazy, but i have to say you have people like bill gates, elong musk talking about this because over time, artificial intelligence is going to start significantly replacing the work force. what do we do about it? i don't know if the freedom dividend is the answer, but it is an attempt to put something out there to say there are going to be jobs lost in the future, looking ahead, maybe not today. so i give him some credit for addressing a major issue like that. neil: and obviously for the

poorer you are, a thousand a month $12,000 a year and everybody gets it. i don't know whether to evaluate it and the tax crunching numbers would cover that. but you give people more disposable income and that will generate activity. what do you think? >> yeah, and we know that the farther down you are in income, that you're more likely to spend all of it and so, we would definitely see that money going back into the economy. again, my concern is, he actually addresses the fact that some of the health care plans proposed are too big and too massive and so, this also feels like a big massive plan and how would we implement this 3 trillion. neil: he has more of a look at math than-- >> one of the exciting things about andrew yang, he appeals to the demographic that democratic party forgotten, that's young people, young men and speaks a

language to them that's forward looking and that's why the impeachment argument makes sense. they want to know what's going to happen in the future and he speaks to that. neil: and my own view on this, he's got to wear a tie. he's got to wear a tie. that will do it here. i have huge money saving news for veterans.

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>> president trump will be getting a major talk to those in florida, racking up more victories. formation of the space force, new money for his wall on the southern border, as the stock market continues to rise, despite the fact that the house impeached him this week or did they? house speaker nancy pelosi is refusing to send the articles over to the senate, negotiations over the trial hit a wall. leaving the status of the entire trial in limbo until the new year. good afternoon, this is america's news headquarters, i'm ed