joining me now is walter -- walser wealth management's rebecca walser. trump almost every time they could, everyone piled against him. this time folks are getting in line. why do you think -- what's the difference? >> sam altman said last month that trump will lead us into the if age of a.i., and so they want him to be successful because america needs to lead that age. charles: but everyone's throwing in the towel. [laughter] no one is fighting back. do you think they also know that the american people are firmly behind him. >> oh, yeah. obviously, we've had a sea change, right? we were really going down the progressive policies for the last, i'd say, eight years. and all of a sudden, oops, stop, those people went too far, we're going to go back. this is this is really is motivated, charles, by the understood the of deregulation and support from the add administration that believes in a.i. charles: talking about a.i., trump announcing the $20 billion keel. by the way, it's from private money. we are in a serious race with china, and there used to be the

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management partner is hear from acting ice director jonathan fahey is here and wealth management rebecca walserhere "mornings with maria" is live right now. write to the breaking news, hundreds of first responders desperately searching theses pandemic river right now for any survivors after plane operated by american airlines subsidiary psa collided with an army black hawk helicopter this happening near the reagan national international airport around 9:00 p.m. both crashing into the dark icy water below as of right now no survivors have been recovered, 60 passengers and four crew members were on the passenger jet including several members and coaches from the u.s. figure skating team they were returning from a camp in wichita, kansas, three soldiers on board the military chopper terrifying audio capturing the moment the crash happened. watch. >> did you see that go around 3000 blackjack three kenny return blackjack proceed directly i need you to land immediately. can you go to baltimore. president trump has been briefed on the situation saying untrue social this is a bad situation that looks l

also rebecca walser. thank you for being here, great to see you both. are trading higher take a look at stocks as we kick off the first full week and the new year dow industrial .23 and dow industrial to enter 27. i think has something to do with the trump agenda and what were hearing on trump's terrorists plans husband or mike johnson told me on "sunday morning futures" he wants one reconciliation bill to trump status by the end of april how important are the tax cuts for investors in the debate that lawmakers are having over one bill with the tax cuts and the border money as well as potentially the debt ceiling getting raised or two bills which send a lindsey graham has been working on. >> thank you for having me on, happy to be here i think it's extremely important leasing the tax cuts that trump into place in 2017 and had a very positive impact on the general public investors in the corporations that benefited from that. i would expect that to be a benefit as well very clearly. maria: the washington post is reporting this, the story president-elect

thank you, good show, liz peek, rebecca walser. "varney & company" is up next. stuart: good morning, everyone. if this is back to normal the normal is going to be a very busy year, here's what's happening despite a major snowstorm congress will convene today to certify the election results. no confusion, trump is the 47th president. lake strategy meeting coming trump gets together with house republicans of mar-a-lago. he wants everything included in a monster legislative package bringing together taxes, the border and energy. that is a big lift for the income president that was a very fast start dividing doing best to block trump's policies. his banning oil and gas all around america's coastline. hundreds 5 million acres, environmentalist love it. the voters that want drill baby drill, not so much. the markets to stand out the tech stocks in the dow industrials upside to the tune of all of them on the upside very nicely so. then we have the dow looking for a gain of over 200 points. the nasdaq up to a 31. look at the nasdaq show. rates holding elevated levels, t

this morning, columnist and fox news contributor, liz peek, walser wealth management president, rebecca walser, "mornings with maria" is live right now. it is time for the hot topic of the hour. congress set to certify the results of the 2024 election today as a massive winter storm bears down on d.c. and it's not expected to delay the proceedings. lawmakers now putting focus on iimplementing the trump agenda, the president-elect urging republicans to unite and send one powerful bill to his desk which includes border policy, energy security and tax cuts and no tax on tips. mike johnson broke the news with me yesterday on sunday morning futures. >> president trump is going to prefer as he likes to say one, big, beautiful bill. he can put it all together, one big up or down vote which can save the country quite literally because there's so many elements to it. maria: are you expecting to raise or eliminate the debt ceiling as part of that big b bill? >> i think we're going to have to do it in the bill. if you do it with reconciliation, you can do it just with the republican party. targeting a vo

maria: rebecca walser. >> it's interesting, mark my words, i know the ceos, coos are absolutely assuredoing to have more m&a, deregulation. but i promise you, march. >> with -- maria, the official reads of data is going to come out more depressed now that the trump administration is in -- maria: are you saying they were cooking the books? >> a hundred -- we had the most bls revisions ever except for the great financial crisis, so, yeah, i think so. maria: wow. [laughter] >> just like cooking pasta sauce on sunday. [laughter] maria: we kid yesterday it -- we yesterday it every monday month, john. it's always revised downward, okay? how about all those jobs that never if actually materialized -- >> huge revision, remember? >> yes or thank you. >> a huge revision. and it wasn't explained. >> exactly. over a million. >> it wasn't explained. >> unacceptable. maria: but the macro story feels good to you? >> i'm sorry. maria: the macro story? >> yes. i think macro, we're in the right direction, for sure. it's a pro-business administration, and that in the long run -- it's not going to happen o

management ceo and chief investment officer, matthew tuttle, also with us is mario vanroso and rebecca walser. we were talking about a.i. in the break, the two subjects business related, earnings a.i. and the federal reserve. the fed left interest rates unchanged yesterday and this was the first policy meeting of the year. offering a less confident view on inflation, fed chief jay powell still playing the wait and see game. watch this. >> with our policy stance significantly less restrictive than it had been and the economy remaining strong, we do not need to be in a hurry to adjust our policy stance. we know that reducing policy restraint too fast or too much could hinder progress on inflation. at the same time, reducing policy restraint too slowly or too little could unduely weaken economic activity and employment. we seem to be set up for further progress. maria: president trump is accusing the federal reserve and jay powell of creating inflation. he wrote this on truth social. if the fed had spent less time on dei, gender ideology, green energy and fake climate change, inflation would nev

joining me now, walser wealth management advisor rebecca walser. thank you, ladies, for being here.ily, met me start with you. trump, he's bringing the hammer down. everything that he ran on, everything he ran on, he's sending criminals back, he's trying to clean up the government, and he a had his first shedown over the weekend, colombia. >> that's right. charles: initially they said a, no, we're not going to take 'em. didn't take long for the president of colombia to change his mind. >> oh, yes. and i am colombian-american, charles, as boy you know, we have an operation there. these tariffs can be catastrophic for any economy. so coffee, flowers, oil, so much we depend on with each other's trade. this was a moment of tension that, ironically, became a showdown for the world to see -- charles: right. >> -- that president trump means business. charles: right, right. and of course there's people this week, rebecca, colorado. they're actually protesting, like, sending back criminals. gang members. so what happens -- what's going on in america? i'm really -- what's happening to us? >>