lauren: adam shapiro, thank you. nicole: reporting from washington, president obama is commuting to army -- white house officials say the president was new to grant an a because chelsea manning has showed remorse. others see the move as totally hypocritical. >> i think it is simply astonishing that the president at the same time would be so exercised over the podesta releases prove a few weeks and then be extending commuting the sentence of chelsea manning. nicole: top congressional republicans condemned the decision calling it outrageous. descendents is now set to expire may 17th. president obama said to hold his final press conference at 2:15 p.m. eastern time today. live from the fox business network. lauren: of those announcing layoffs. the chain is eliminating 2400 positions. most of the cuts at the store is as close tries to adapt to the changing habits of shoppers. many workers have responsibilities at the back of the store will be made available to go to the front to help answer questions about products or pr

adam shapiro, thank you. the well-known bruce springsteen tribute band that was supposed to do that one of the maturation galas canceled its performance. the band said in its for bruce springsteen who has been a big supporter of hillary clinton. lauren: trenchers for education secretary could face tough questioning at her senate confirmation hearing today. democrats expected to ask that the device about her support for public education. she has school vouchers preaches a billionaire and her hearing was delayed for six days so financial investments could be viewed for conflicts of interest. they paid $15,000 for a magazine that sammy randi weingarten for opposing her nomination. trim to the u.s. in cuba working together to fight terrorism, drug trafficking. notably absent from this deal, any mention of returning cuba has harbored and putting black panther hijackers and puerto rican terrorists. donald trump has threatened to scrap in a cooperation between the two countries. true three g user income of the last

adam shapiro is standing by at the white house, when they can expect to hear from president obama in a war zone with more murders than new york and l.a. combined? it has got to be a bitter sweet situation in chicago? reporter: bittersweet is probably the best way to describe it. i mean here is president barack obama, on his way to his hometown. you can hear marine one powered up as i'm talking to you right now here on the lawn in the white house. he will be heading to chicago. he will address issues, according to the white house, that look forward. he picked chicago, his hometown, as a backdrop, to show not only how his career started but the possibilities for people in the united states. the question is, will he address the problems which are plaguing his hometown? as well, as his own legacy. what happens to the affordable care act, obamacare? will he address all of that? we were told by josh earnest here at the white house the speech will look forward, not back. here is earnest in his own words. >> the president feels an obligation to talk about what he learned over last eight years

adam shapiro. reporter: you got it. wall street historians, live here on the floor of the new york stock exchange they are a superstitious bunch. they look back to history and say, yeah, this happened seven times out of the last 18 years. it is numbers juju here. they say as january goes so goes the rest of the world. last year proved that little thing totally and utterly wrong. show you what happened at this very month last year. january of 2016, the dow plummeted. it was a stomach-churning drop. 5.5% in january on all kinds of fears, initially worries about china growth. it was the biggest january decline since the depth of root session back in 2009. what a difference rest of the year was able to make. blue chip index went on to log the best performance of 2013 with a 13% gain. you know what happened with the russell? 19% gain. nasdaq did beautifully as well. same with the s&p. so what are we expecting this year? same as last year? or hopefully something little different when it comes to january? let me bring in the f

adam shapiro, this is interesting. he's about to walk the path for you live that trump will follow friday. and former ambassador howard reveals the challenges he faced eight years ago. he's the guy who put together the obama inauguration back in 2008. i have to ask. will any executives be on the list? maybe not as trump iced them out again saying their prices are too high. they move overseas to dodge taxes. epipen maker guilty on both those counts. food activist robert here live. are trump's threats already saving patients money? plus first the elephants and now ringling bros. circus is putting the entire show out to pastor for good. did the greatest show on earth really get trampled by elephants or did the creepy clown scale put the nail in the circus cough in? who wants to be clowned anymore, you know? the markets are closed on this martin luther king holiday and so is the competition. but not us. pinch me. i'm live. i'm here. we have a huge flow of news happening. so much to get to, so little time. we're here for yo

adam shapiro inside the beltway with more. adam, what do you think will happen this time?ter: there will be a very coordinated attack by democrats to try to get betsy devos to talk about some of her political contributions and her investments. let's get into one of endorsements she got earlier today because she is advocate for charter schools, school choice and school vouchers. there was a tweet by ava moscowitz. it was retreated by president-elect donald trump. moscowitz is advocate of having children send their schools to schools of their choice. she said betsy devos has the talent and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity. hearing of betsy devos, at least the con permanentmation hearing will take place starting at 5:00 p.m. she is expected to be grilled about donations. she has donated with, her family, a million dollars to senators, sitting senators here in the senate as well as $10 million to super-pacs. they're going to question her about that whether it's a conflict of interest. she will be asked about the every

adam shapiro has the very latest. >> good morning, brian. good morning, the poll. that would be robert slate has there. he is nominating to the next u.s. trade representative. this is a job with what she is familiar. white house are served in the bush administration as a deputy u.s. trade representative and he's negotiated more than two dozen bilateral agreements on everything from steel to green. he is also a trump supporter and gave her a tougher posture with countries like china and mexico. and speaking of mexico, targeted general motors and its operation in the country south of the border. the president-elect tweeting general motors suspended executive model of chevy cruised to u.s. car dealers tax-free across border making u.s.a. pay big border tax. general motors responded saying that chevy crew sedan is though that is forced on or in ohio and the chevy cruised hatchback which is exported to foreign countries for mexico, only a few are sent into the united states. that was part of today's events outside trump tower. the president is a is awaiting more informa

more from adam shapiro. reporter: good morning lauren. good morning, nicole. attacks by democrats to slow down the confirmation of several key cabinet nominees. chuck schumer called for a delay after the office of government ethics reported several nominees to fill to be properly vetted. >> we are not doing this for sport. democrats feel very strongly that pushing for it girl and thoughtful vetting process is the right thing to do. >> incoming white house and sean spicer says he expects the senate. president electron veteran towered new york city monday predicted success. >> brought the highest level. they are the absolute highest level appeared >> everybody will be properly fitted and a hopeful of look it to six or seven in place on day one. >> mitch mcconnell promises no of those will take place without completed epic spread in fbi background checks. josh earnest accuses republicans of failing to perform their sworn duties. >> republicans in the senate are farming around cheap suit pockets. it's not a commentary wardrobe. become the fact that they are foldin

more on that from adam shapiro. reporter: good morning, boring. good morning, nicole. tom price committed on them to be the next secretary of health and human services say he believed in six principal should he become the next secretary. this principles for health care would be affordability, accessibility, quality traces, innovation and responsiveness. the senators come at least democrats win on the attack specifically about the congressman's numerous almost 40 different investments in pharmaceutical come in a certain help their companies and racist that are up whether or not he is a member of congress benefited from what could have been inside information reason to push prices that the public didn't get when he passed out. listen to the exchange he had first with senator patty murray. >> congressman committee believe it's appropriate for a senior member of congress actively involved in policymaking in the health sector to repeatedly, personally invest in a drug company that could benefit from his actions, yes or no? >> that's not what happened. reporter: an exchange

adam shapiro standing by in the newsroom with the latest. adam? >> melissa, a slight miss on revenue, came in at 41.8 billion in the last quarter. street was expecting 42.0 billion. shares in line, 66 cents adjusted. street was expecting 66 cents. give you a few metrics, wireless added 6.2 million customers. wireless is more than 40% of total revenue. more than 90 million wireless customers. directv as we found out last week, 200,000 sign-ups just in december. directv and u-verse had additional 235 sign-ups. directv and u-verse are the largest pay per tv in the country but directv is the new streaming service. 200,000 sign-ups in december. melissa. melissa: thank you. david: as the company prepares for potential merger with time warner, a very big one, president trump of course expressing concerns deal could place too much power in hands of too few. what will president's view on the deal impact on corporate profits, john, you have a problem when a president's personal animus toward a division of this company, cnn in particular, might affect his de

out to adam shapiro at the white house with a preview for us. dam, the big question, is he going to go after the man trying to undo his legacy? >> reporter: great question to ask. all indications there are four drafts that the president will deliver this evening. and all indications, the white house is saying, president obama will look forward and not necessarily go on the attack against donald trump, and is still committed to a peaceful, friendly transition, but in regards to obamacare and whether the president will make the case as to why that should be left alone and why he would disagree with what republicans in the incoming administration plan, no word as to whether he's going to make the case to defend his legacy legislation. here's what josh earnest had to say about everything we can expect tonight? >> the president's committed to delivering a forward-looking speech that will examine briefly the significant progress that our country has made in the last eight years, but it will take a closer look and spend more time talking about what the

here our very own adam shapiro. we have ashley webster. lance ulanoff, mashable chief correspondent. gary kaltbaum is back with us. adam, how has apple's stock performed since the election. >> apple's stock has done okay. they were expecting 77.25 billion in revenue in first quarter for apple based on sales of the iphone 7 and iphone 7, keep in mind, benefited from problems with samsung and exploding phones. also the fact they had a new device. they had a great holiday sales. suite get confirmed if they make a revenue number. that is year-over-year increase of something like 1.8%. earnings per share will fall about 2%. that will be $3.21. what will they do since 2/3 of all revenue comes from the iphone. melissa? melissa: thanks so much for that. lance, what do you expect to hear. what is the big question for your mind? >> how many iphones and iphone 7 pluses they sold. we heard about issues on the 7 plus side but they solved this would encompass the holiday buying season. it has to be their biggest. they have to have really big numbers. tra

let's get to adam shapiro. we're waiting for apple results after the bell.ow whether we will hit the number of0 million iphones, apple? >> iphone 7 did very well with the iphone sales during the holiday. apple is-- 77.25 billion. what about iphone eight or when they release the new version of the iphone 7 in september. while revenue is up, earnings per shane will be down. apple still sits on $238 of cash, a lot overseas. 216 billion, liz? the question will they be able to repatriate that and pay it to yous the shareholder in the form of dividend. the other issue, people are looking at liz, 90% of sales is regards to hardware. they need to look how they grow apple pay, apple music and the app store. that is all investors look for in the earnings report. the earth issue, asfa nominal as the iphone 7 is, 2/3 come from the iphone that worries people down the road. liz: they want to see if there is a less mature product comes out. immature fresh one apple comes out. adam shapiro thank you very much. numbers come out after the belle, don't miss it. there is uncert

adam shapiro, good to see you.ecurity will be tight, before, during and after the inauguration. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live with what it will take to keep everyone safe. what will be the main focus of the fbi? >> sandra, the fbi's focus is on counterterrorism, running down leads, then pushing at the intelligence to partner agency. there's more concern this year about the use of drones and vehicles as weapons. fox news went inside the fbi command center with lead agent paul abate. they have a surge capacity o this wall they have the ability to track agents in realtime with gps technology. >> the smaller scale, more simplistic attack is something that's much higher on the radar now versus four years ago. but in terms of our approach to it, it's -- we're considering and thinking about and planning for and looking out for the whole spectrum of threats. >> the capital, some of the perimeter fencing is going up, and homeland security, said about 28,000 people will secure this event from th

adam shapiro live at new york stock exchange. adam you said two days on our show, dow 20,000 would happen. a, how did you know that, b, we're almost there and b, does it still happen? >> it could still happen. we're only 13 points away right now. the reason i said it could happen today because of jobs numbers. everyone was waiting when i was talking with lori rothman on wednesday what would that jobs report tell us? the bottom line from the jobs report we got today, saw it shoot up, after that report, wages grew. in 2016, wages were up 2.9%. average hourly wages for everybody, up 10 cents in december. i think $26 an hour. that was a positive sign. investors traders, buyers they agreed. that is when you saw us go up 19,999. we haven't been able to hit the 20,000 mark. likely i'm wrong. i'm wrong most of the time. if we get there today, liz, you will see people pointing a finger the fact that wages were a good sign in the jobs report. there were signs that weren't so great. job creation slowing down in 2016. not what it was in 2015.

adam shapiro live with the latest every single day.he hot seat is not an understatement. most important the student actually -- the senate allowed the waiver. there were only 17 votes against that the waiver is necessary as the u.s. law requires them to be a civilian for at least seven years in order to become the house is expected to vote on this waiver tomorrow. then it all starts over again. he told the committee that the u.s. armed forces must be the best lead in quipped and most lethal force in the world. if necessary something that he says he has discussed i had have discussions on the issue. even to the point of asking more questions and going deeper into the issue about why i feel so strongly. he understands where i stand. russia is kind of the uninvited guest to the party because the confirmation hearing the senators ask him and he is the nominee to become cia tractor. and how the government should respond. >> it will inquire a robust american response as we get better at defending this and that holds actors accountable commit

adam shapiro has news from those hearings. hey, adam. >> hey come and kneel.ttee just voted 24-3 in favor of the waiver to allow general james mattis to become the next secretary of defense. the senate will not take about are not expected to happen sometime around 3:00 this afternoon. the waiver would allow general mattis to become secretary of defense. the waiver is necessary to do a slob requires a military opposite to be a civilian for at least seven years in order to become secretary defense and general mattis retired four years ago. the house of representatives expected to go to the waiver tomorrow. general mattis told the committee the u.s. armed forces must be the best lady quit their most lethal force in the world and ready to stand up to russia. president electron. >> i've had discussions on this issue and he showed himself open. even to the point of asking more questions and going deeper into the issue about why i feel so strongly. he understands where i stand. reporter: the confirmation hearing for representative pompeo, senators asked the nominee t

let's get to adam shapiro on capitol hill. >> the democratic strategy was to hold price to the fire, and they did that today. they challenged him on his investments. he has stock investments in 40 different pharmaceutical standby oh medical companies. they talked about whether they raised the spectre. did they benefit from buying stock in companies. all of those issues were raised. but then there was the issue of healthcare reform. he's a proponent of repealing obamacare as well as changes to immediate care and medicaid. immediate carimmediate care ando medicare and medicaid. >> we are a compassionate society. >> no wore not a compassionate society. when it comes to poor people we have the worst record. compared to other countries, i don't think we are particularly koom compassionate. >> if you want to talk about other country's healthcare decisions, there are consequences just like there are to the decisions we made. reporter: this isn't the official hearing. one that counts is the senate finance committee hearing that takes place next week. that's the committee that will vote yes o

let's bring in adam shapiro. is this baby, bad boy ever going to hit 20,000?think possibly friday. everyone will be very cautious up to the jobs report. if we get a good jobs report, i think estimates are creation of 1170, almost 180,000 jobs, if we hit that then we have the excuse to push over 20,000. then we have a big selloff as people take their profits. i think that we could see it by friday. lori: adam, there is debate on the floor, with no surprise of the minutes that should have been a catalyst to launch us over 20,000. three interest rates, implied risk, no surprises today. this could have been the catalyst. jobs report too could be another thing. >> it is about an excuse. as you said, the people are going to move the big money need an excuse to do it and the jobs report would be that kind of excuse. the fed minutes that peter barnes broke earlier today, that we got, we know what is going on with the fed, we can guess where they're headed but jobs number tells you what is happening in the economy at least to a degree. lori: forecast for wage growth in

liz: fox business's adam shapiro standing by in washington, d.c. watching all of this. am, we schuss mention a lot unfolding including the waiver vote. we'll let people know the event that happens, the vote. mike pompeo is west point grad who patrolled the iron curtain before the fall of the berlin wall. i found his comments on russia and putin tampering with our election absolutely fascinating. reporter: fascinating because when you listen to what donald trump, the president-elect had been saying earlier about vladmir putin and then listen to what his nominee to be the leader, director of cia says, there seems to be disagreement but not in the words of mr. pompeo. the specter, liz, the scandal engulfing the nation's intelligence community, president-elect donald trump as well as russia, it casts a long shadow over the confirmation hearing today on capitol hill. members of the senate intelligence committee did grill representative pompeo, the nominee to be cia director about russia's interference in the u.s. election. pompeo says he believes russian hacking was the resul

our own adam shapiro joins me with more. adam, why is it she's public enemy number one? unions are opposed to betsy devos. she does stand up for school choice, school vouchers. she just received an endorsement, you mentioned it ten minutes ago from a pillar of the school choice advocacy organizations from eva moskowitz. she's very big in new york city and an advocate for families who want their children to have an option that might include better education than what they would get in the new york city public schools. eva moskowitz tweeted this out betsy devos has the talent, commitment and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunities. that is a very important endorsement, someone like eva moskowitz, who's not running but talk she may run for mayor of new york city. she is going to be grilled by none other than senator elizabeth warren. you should know in 2004 when her best-selling book she wrote with her daughter, the two income trap, she advocated school vouchers so parents can choose a school, a private school to send th

fox business network adam shapiro is live in washington.do we know how much of the parade will cost and who pays for it? >> well, it's a combination of contributions as well as taxpayer funds, shep that the entire festivities for the inaugural weekend could run close to $175 million to $200 million. already, the inaugural committee through private donations have raised close to $100 million. that's a record. for president obama, it was combined 2009 and 2013, $97 million. so the trump campaign, the trump inaugural committee has already raised far more through donations and they're still coming in, shep. >> shepard: what are you hearing about preparations for demonstrations? >> they are expecting at least 99 different demonstrations. that's how many groups have registered to protest and demonstrate. some in favor of the president-elect, some against. you can hear the banging going on around me. they're putting up huge barricades and fencing. the entire parade route and the capitol area and the mall is literally a secure area that they lock d

let's go to fox business adam shapiro on the scene with the latest. who have you seen going in and t today, adam? busy day? light day? >> it has been a light day. we're going to talk about some of the people who have gone in, among them leo, the director. let me talk about the new year, the new nomination because this is key for the trump administration agenda going into the new year. and it was the nomination of robert lightheiser to become the next u.s. trade representative. this is key because he was a deputy trade during the bush administration and has negotiated something like two dozen bilateral trade agreements from grain to steel, and he's a trump supporter who wants to take a tougher line like mexico and china. so that was announced this morning by president-elect trump's staff. but then there was also the tweet that came this morning. you talked about earlier the general motors tweet but also what happened with ford and ford's decision not to do that $1.6 billion project plant in mexico and instead invest 700 million at flat rock in michigan.

our own adam shapiro is inside the beltway with the very latest. am. >> well, security procedures are already underway here in the nation's capitol. the inauguration a week away, but you can already see when you visit washington d.c. security fences and the areas which will be closed to vehicles on now, secretary of homeland security jay johnson briefed the press and everybody regarding the steps that are being taken to take the on something like 700 to 900,000 people expected for the inauguration of donald trump as the nation's 45th president. there will be 28,000 additional security officers assigned just to the inauguration. that's everybody. roughly 7500 national guardsman, 3,500 police officers from around the country, as well as capitol police and metro dc police, and concert service who will be in charge of the entire security operation. they are also fortifying the area of the inauguration, the parade as well as capitol hill. with garbage trucks and different kinds of vehicles to prevent the kinds of tragics we've seen overseas in which peop

adam shapiro has the latest details on the hearing. adam? reporter: melissa, this was a contentious hearing. dem can kratz strategy was to try to discredit tom price the representative, who is doctor and experienced in health care and invested heavily in something like 43 different health care companies. everything from amgen, bristol-myers squibb and pfizer and lily. he was attacked about whether his stock investments pose a conflict of interest. the other issue is healthcare reform, something he championed, saving medicare and saving medicaid. hear how elizabeth warren went in on the subject against the nominee. >> can you assure this committee that you will not cut one dollar from either medicare or medicaid should you be confirmed to this position? >> senator, i believe that the metric ought to be the care that the patient -- >> i that as a no. >> it is that the wrong metric. we ought to be putting forth the resources -- >> ask you whether or not you have a better metric. i'm asking awe question about dollars, yes or no? >> we put forwar

adam shapiro.ou have learned something here watching the president today, when he is doing one of these things, over. more after this. . . . shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45%. shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam. >> general james mattis and he has stated publicly that he does not necessarily believe in torture. i don't necessarily agree, but i will take you that he will override because i'm giving him that power. i happen to feel that it does work. i have been open for a long period of time. i am going with our lauders. neil: all right. another reminder in a very revealing press conference that it's not always donald trump's way or the highway, so does say donald trump. big stuff. trish: lots of big stuff. thanks so much, niel. president trump and theresa may just wrapping up joint news conference at the white house where the president reassured one of our greatest allies, long-time allies that america will not be turning its back on our friend, the uk and the two

adam shapiro, thank you are much. the mickey hailey hearing under way. she says they could benefit.true? given the back-and-back-and- back and forth as to whether were disproportionately funding the land seen a bigger role and yet getting a little out of the u.n. there should be a quid pro quo. jimmy carter as united nations ambassador, andrew young. thank you for coming. >> very good to be with you. neil: first off, i would like to get your reaction to that end governor mickey hailey's view that we pay a lot to keep the u.n. going. do you think there should be a quaint pro-quote there? >> well, i tell you, you pay according to your ability to pay. what i know from the u.n. is if you come hair what it costs to send the u.n. troops into lebanon back when i was at the u.n. and what it costs for the marines to go when, it not only costs much less, but i think we lost almost 300 marines. we didn't lose anybody when they let the u.n. do it. so the u.n. is a good evening for us. it does a lot of work we don't need to be doing and other people need to carry their birding. the burden need n

adam shapiro standing by in the newsroom. what is the latest? >> it's a miss. i go with the revenue number first. came in at 24.1 billion in the second quarter. the street was expecting 25.3 billion. earnings per share adjusted 78 cents. street was expecting 79 cents, david. david: down after hours but not too bad. lindsey they have had a great run-up so far this year. >> they have had a great run-up but they have underperformed the s&p 500 tech sector just like intel has so far this year but i think, we'll want to dig into what the cloud business did in this quarter for microsoft. david: right. >> these reports are very surprising because tech has been leading the beats within the s&p 500 in fourth quarter earnings season period. seems like the table is starting to turn with some of these bigger names coming out and -- david: adam will be looking into the details of these numbers, lindsey is absolutely right. amazon of course has this web service that is competing with microsoft's web and still not clear who is going to win that battle. >> yeah, they're actual

trish: i want to go to adam shapiro with the latest. he has run into some trouble on this trade issue. >> several different stock trades. investment in 40 different companies and what the democrats are trying to raise is the potential that did the congressman who is the nominee, tom price, did he benefit from inside information or privileged prices and the stock trades, and was given a private price lower than what the public made and someone aggressively, and advantageous price and legislation that you sponsored which helps that company which helps your stock value. that was the exchange, stock with our franken, pointing out cigarette smoke can kill 480,000 people a year and the congressman, the nominee acknowledged his own father died from emphysema after smoking. listen to this exchange to get an idea how the democrats were attacking him. >> congressman price, you are a physician which means you took a hippocratic oath, a pledge to do no harm. how do you square reaping personal financial gain from sales of an addictive product that k

adam shapiro is on capitol hill. we see they are just revving up to begin. reporter: we are waiting for betsy devos' opening statement. i'll give you a preview of some of the things she is going to say. this will resonate for parent of children who are eligible for public schools. she'll say i share esident-elect's view it's time to shift the debate to what moms and dads wanted and deserve. parent no longer believe there is a one size fits all for every child and they know other options exist. she then will say i will be a strong advocate for great public schools. other topic she'll hit upon as i where up is this discussion nationally about forgiving college student loans or making it easier tore people to repay college loans. she is also expected to say that one of the problems with our current education system is it's set up to try to get everyone to go to college. but that a four-year degree is not appropriate for everybody. then she'll talk about the every student successful act. and president-elect trump's vision of using the $20:million in the communit

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conference this morning we are expecting, his response, to the latest allegations about russia adam shapiroou. reporter: good morning, maria important to rhyme everybody allegations unverified uninstanted, the president-elect is tweeting about it in fact the latest tweets 45 minutes president-elect said on twitter intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake nice in public, one last shot at me are we living in nazi germany. >> i win easily great movement crooked opponents try to be little with fake news soar state russia has never tried to use levin over me i have nothing to do with russia no deals, no loans no nothing. timing is everything the timing of this possible bombshell on important day for the president-elect, mr. trump holds first press conference, in more than a month later this morning at trump tower sure to be asked about all of this as well as the bombshell report that russia possesses compromising information about him that is unsubstantiated and unverified one reason the president-elect tweeted last night that it was fake news a total political witchunt russian

adam shapiro, on the floor of the new york stock exchange. adam, let's first start with you. big movers today. >> there were very big movers today let's talk about some winners on the dow and s&p 500. boeing up 5%. "wall street journal" market group says a lot of rise in the dow this week you can attribute 20% of that to boeing. up, up and away with the airplane maker. microsoft we saw a great earnings beat yesterday. they were up 5%. caterpillar is up anywhere from 500 billion to a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending, that is what president trump wants. s&p 500, winners seagate technology up 22%. united rentals, nn resorts, americans want to go on vacation and wynn resorts and royal caribbean. it is up 11%. peso gain ad little strength against the u.s. dollar. donald trump, the president toning it down a bit with the mexican president. people seem to be a little bit relieved by that peso gained against the dollar. back to you. cheryl: when you see you dow 20,000, time for a little vacation. adam, thank you. oil and goldening in the red. is the trump effect on the com

dagen: thank you so much for that report adam shapiro steve your first thoughts on this report rightes a little bit still 7 point los angeles on dow futures steve go ahead. >> he a little spointdz i was thinking hoping for closer to 00,000, i think -- 00,000 what was it 156 something like that that is ho-hum not really good, you know i think that that when you look at the natural growth labor force, it is just not a very positive number, i am a wlil disappointed, and you a little disappointed would i like to hear wage numbers again i was having difficulty seeing how much the -- >> about what was the wage growth. >> okay -- last month average hourly earnings private sector workers .39% up better than expected year over year rose 2.9% best annual gain more than 7 years, it was 2 1/2% in the previous month. >> so you know that is running a little bit above inflation, means many workers are getting the increases average not median wage people at top getting big pay increases nots so much people at the bottom. >> bring-what is your take on this report, because again, you know as as conten

adam shapiro is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. adam, markets not reacting to the shooting, but we couldn't hit that record. close.h. and we came so i mean, at one point this morning what? 19,999. but this market is all talk no action. and the dow, you know, for the first trading session of the year this week, it's up a little over 1%. but the, you know, year over year, the dow is still up over 20%. t generating to 20,000. take a look at nike. nike is up almost 2% today. their sales in the united states up 11% in 2016. don't count out adi out adidas, though. german sportswear company. goldman sachs up 1.6%, disney up 1.6%, visa up 1.4%. the traders are saying next week 20,000. melissa: all right, adam, thank you for that. here to react we have chief economist michelle front yard, we have paul of alvarez and forbes media chairman steve forbes. wow quite a panel we have there. michelle, let me start with you. talk to me a little bit about the jobs report we have today and what it tells you. we saw hints some of wage growth there. what

adam shapiro is standing by at the white house with the very latest. r trivia buffs, this will be the last time the president flies aboard air force one with its destination as air force one. he will be speaking tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern, 8:00 p.m. chicago time central time to the nation. the address is expected to be a forward-looking address but also a call to action to mr. obama supporters in regards to democracy and keeping democracy alive. here's how is josh earnest, the white house press spokesman described what we can expect tonight. >> the president's committed to delivering a forward-looking speech that will examine briefly the significant progress that our country has made in the last eight years. but it will take a closer look and spend more time talking about what the president believes is necessary for us to confront the challenges that lie ahead. >> an expected 20,000 people are expected at mccormick place in chicago, the convention facility where the president will be delivering his farewell address. they gave out tickets, as you know, sa

. ♪ ♪ >> i'm adam shapiro on the floor of the new york stock exchange.usiness brief. the dow, the s&p 500 and nasdaq are trading down not much but enough to see red this afternoon. microsoft hits an all-time high, 3.6% rise second quarter profit after the bell yesterday. software-maker was helped by growth in its fast-growing cloud computing business as strategy to look away from slow moving traditional software business. intel's stock at a 16-year high. profit-driven by stablizing pc market. there was growth in its data center business. google's parent alphabet trading slightly lower after it posted fourth quarter profits below estimates hurt by higher tax rate. analysts cheered the company's progress diversifying its business beyond advertising. liz talks to lieutenant colonel ralph peters next. liz: breaking news. we now have our cameras inside something called the hall of heroes in the pentagon. president trump meets with the joint chiefs of staff. within the hour we are expecting that he will attend a swearing-in process of retired marine four-star

adam shapiro on the floor of the new york stock exchange watching today's biggest movers. lay it out for us, adam. reporter: look what happened to some of the auto parts suppliers after amazon said it entered into contracts to sell auto parts at amazon.com. autozone, advanced auto parts took a hit, actually down about 3%. autozone was down about 4%. genuine parts down almost 3 1/2 parts. o'reilly automotive down 3.2%. almost 3.3%. look what happened with qualcomm. we got news last week that the u.s. government was investigating them for anti-competitive practices. on friday, apple filed a one billion dollar lawsuit against them. it has to do with nuances and $1 billion they were owed and qualcomm didn't pay them, something to do going on in korea. what you need to know qualcomm in the cross-hairs of apple to the tune of one billion. that stock down 12%. this news, kate spade, will try to sell itself. who might buy? coach as well as michael kors, kate spade was up 3.6% today. michael kors was up barely, a quarter of a percent. coach was up almost half a percent. back to you.

. >> looking for a hotel room in washington you don't want to miss action at inauguration adam shapirog to you maria in george washington suite at willard hotel the premier hotel in washington hold on, a gray poupon on side thank you. >> the premier holt in washington, d.c., they have three presidential sweets and offering a package, they call stay like a president. they have sold out those three sweets this is one of them. 450,000 dollars, four nights not bad, going to show you what you get for that 450,000 dollars, you can have a private dinner prepared by one of the premier chefs of washington, d.c. . will be served here in your dining room in the suite take out this view by the way each suite a view of the parade route for inauguration you get to see them all, of course, george washington monument part of what they are doing two tomorrow tickets anywhere in united states to fly to you washington, d.c., so we were invited to show this to you this morning spoke with some hotels management i want to introduce you to jason, will explain who is looking to buy this package. >> any guest

. >> president-elect trump adds former apprentice to team adam shapiro with the latest. >> she no isessional fired three times on apprentice program, by mr. trump, but now she is leaving the transition team, and she is going to be the leader of the public liaison office for president-elect after sworn in she described what she is going to be doing last night on fox news's kelly file here is what she said. >> -- americans he wants to hear what issues are in communities we are going to fight for them my role is going into communities and continue extension of work that i was doing already on the campaign, and with the national diversity could coalition many she use both names or continue to address her as just omarosa, she has a position with the administration. also coming up next week, we have been talking about all the nominees, the coirmation hearings will begin a full slate tuesday senate judiciary committee will start its confirmation hearings on jeff sessions to become attorney general, then there is betsy devore on wednesday education committee to determine ally secretary of ed

continuing with transition to trump more confirmation hearings scheduled today, adam shapiro in washingtonatest. good morning. reporter: good morning to you scandal regarding possible leaks from intelligence community and president-elect donald trump sure one of the he topics at confirmation hearings for representative mike pompeo has been nominated to head cia now president-elect trey teted within last 30 minutes, this is the tweet, quote james clapper called me yesterday, to denounce false fictitious report that was illegally circulated made up phony facts, too bad, pompeo will appear before senate intelligence committee 10 eastern this morning pompeo congressman from kansas is a west point graduate army veteran harvard law alumni member of the house intelligence committee, president-elect trump has been clashing with the intelligence agencies, saying it would be a tremendous blot on reputations if they did indeed leak recent unsubstantiated allegations that russia has compromising information about the president-elect. mr. trump talking about hearings, said wednesday the nation needs be

president obama is set to bid the kin farewell tonight in final speech the nation, adam shapiro liveresident will leave washington later today, he will head back to his hometown chicago, where tonight 9:00 pm eastern will address the nation in his farewell speech, he is expected to according to josh earnest conduct forward looking speech, of course, they will discuss the president will discuss some of the accomplishments of the obama administration, 2009, coming out of the financial crisis bailing out detroit general motors chrysler affordable care act and expected there will be a discussion and a warning perhaps about repealing the affordable care act we all call obamacare other issue great tension here in washington, the confirmation hearings for the president-elect cabinet nominees begin today and we just learned that betsy devos her hearing delayed to next week confirmed the hearing of the nominee, to become attorney general jeff sessions will take place starting 9:30 before senate judiciary committee, 10 ak john kelly has been nominates to head department of homeland security, s

adam shapiro lifer in freedom plaza. he's got the details right now. good morning to you.ning to you, maria. a beautiful morning as he watched the sunrise behind the capital. this is pennsylvania avenue. sometime around 10:30, the motorcade carrying president barack obama bacillus president-elect donald trump will have asked us to the capital. this afternoon this is the trade route donald trump will come to the white house. you can see people lining up, getting ready for that which won't begin until 3:00 p.m. this parade will be different than the parade we saw four years ago. it will have more of a tribute to members of the armed services and military, roughly 50 of the different parade unit will be tied somehow to the u.s. armed forces and military men and women as well as about 10 different parade units which wille tied to border patrol and immigration organization. there were far fewer of those in 2009 when barack obama was inaugurated. there will also be fewer units within the parade itself. just about 82 during barack obama's inauguration parade in 2009. they were mo

adam shapiro is here. adam. >> the devos hear something getting a great deal of attention.t won't start until 5:00. the other thing that is getting a lot of attenti, tom pric health and human services. we have video of mr. price. his hearing takes place tomorrow. the trump administration is fighting back that there was a cnn report about stock trades the representative made before the nomination. what they said or they raised the possibility that the congressman had benefited from investing in a company which then benefited, got to go back to you, neil. neil: thank you, adam. president has shown up at josh earnest's press conference. let's listen in. >> when i first met josh earnest, he was in iowa. i think he was wearing jeans. he looked even younger than he was. and since my entire campaign depended on communications in iowa, i gave him a pretty good once over. and there are a couple things you i learnedhim right away. number one, he has just got that all american matinee good looking thing going. that's helpful, let's face it. face made for television. then the guy's nam

the read on all of that with adam shapiro in washington, d.c. adam, what are you hearing?t of money that have been coming in are setting a record. we'll put this into perspective a little bit. talk about some of the corporate donation,. liz: which have already been announced. for instance, chevron donated to the inauguration committee $500,000. boeing pledgedded up to one million dollars. at&t, it is kind of an in-kind donation, when you walk around washington near the mall and capitol, cell phone towers have been put in place. this will quintuple the amount of cell phone service available on friday as hundreds of thousands of people descend on the nation's capitol for the inauguration. where does this stand, this $90 million that the trump inaugural committee raised so far? where does this stand, compared to other presidential inaugural committees? president obama, both inaugural committees, combined, raised roughly $97 million. gw, george walker bush, kind of cold, my mouth is freezing. 72 million combined. bill clinton combined, 56.5 million. this is record amount of mo

. ♪ ♪ >> i'm adam shapiro live at the white house where president obama is preparing for his last tripbe flying to chicago later today and then this evening he will be delivering his farewell address not only to the people of chicago, but to the entire nation. people stood in line saturday in chicago to obtain the hundreds of tickets which were handed out free, and now those tickets to what is expected to be an historic address are selling online anywhere from $500 to $5,000 according to "the chicago tribune." now, we do have a little bit of a preview about what the president's going to discuss. he will be addressing the entire nation, just not a segment, but the entire nation. there have been four different drafts of the speech already submitted to the president. and he's also using chicago as a backdrop since it's where he started his career, it's where he launched his political career or and where he is going to be ending his political career. more "cavuto" now. neil: thank you very much. back to washington right now where the hearing has resumed with jeff sessions, donald trump's p

moving quickly to staff his administration with multiple confirmation hearings in a single day, adam shapiroe promising to try and slow down those confirmation hearings confirmations several key nominees, president-elect donald trump wants in his cabinet. democrats like senate jiernt leader chuck schumer called for delay off the government ethics reporting several president-elect's nominees failed to complete ethics reviews to make sure they can avoid conflict of interest problems. schumer says ethics reviews are necessary to make sure wealthy members of the cabinet work for the country not this is a quote for their own bottom line and that they plan to fully comply with the law, republicans are intent on confirming as many as ponlt senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says democrats are complaining about procurable issues he vows no nominee will get up-and-down vote until required background checks completed by ethics office and fbi. >> i am optimistic that we will be able to get up to seven nominees day one, just like we did 8 years ago. maria: confirmation hearings begin tuesday senator

adam shapiro along this parade route you can tell us what he is seeing. ey got out of car, nee, by trump international hotel. he walked a little bit. you could hear the crowd cheering. what you didn't see down here, there are protesters mixed in with the trump supporters. there were people cheering here. there were protesters who gave the president and first lady as they drove by a certain finger salute, we'll not talk too much about. for the most part there was no kind of violence from what you saw not far from here about six blocks away. vast majority of people you see along the parade route who are leaving are trump supporters. they cheered very loudly as motorcade made its way by. neil: you don't have the vantage point, donald trump got out of the car. he is very close to the white house now. that is the second time they left their vehicle, the beast, as its known. melania trump, baron trump are out of the vehicle again. they're literally, quite literally walking distance around lafayette park. treasury is u.s. treasury. white house is literally right

adam shapiro tells us just how much. >> see you coming to washington dc and you need a place to stay, this is one of the presidential suites had three of them here at the willard intercontinental hotel. this is one of the premier and historic hotels. you get a view of washington that it is unrivaled. you have a view of the parade route if a sweeping view and of course of the washington monument. some of the other things that are included in this is a private dining room. you get a dinner for eight of your best friends prepared by one of the best chefs. we spoke to hotel management about who might spend $450,000 because they've sold out all three of these and here is what he told us. >> any guest that wants to come and see the behind-the-scenes of washington dc and spirits and migration like a president would let me be somebody that wants to entertain a large group of businesses coming in to entertain clients. anybody that wants to do the and migration in a really big and special way. it also includes two airplane tickets. the limo service and were not talking about it will go. who kno