now we'll be speaking a little bit bernie marcus he's the co- founder of home depot and one of the many many companies sharing with at least thousand dollar bonuses to workers potentially more to come if the numbers work out right. bernie joins us right now. essentially this back and forth the democrats saying a thousand dollars is chump change it doesn't really move the needle much you say what? >> i say that that interview you just had is the most incredible thing i've ever heard. i really actually laughed outloud. you want to talk about somebody who is off the charts and doesn't understand reality, that's your last guest. it's schumer and pelosi. a thousand dollars is so meaningful and i'll give you an example, neil. i spent my life on the floor of the stores at home depot. that's what i did. almost every week of my life i was in-stores all over the united states and i talked to customers and i talked to employees and i can tell you that a thousand dollars is more than meaningful. it could be paying the mortgage. it could be paying for a car repair. it could be paying for a past due

bernie marcus. the founder he is emerging as one of the top republican fundraisers. not one of the big money guys in the republican party. look at this market. now were up 125. if anybody was trading off stocks based on the government shutdown they were crazy. for once you agreed with me. the government shutdown means nothing when you had tax cuts and other stuff. they also tend not to be extended he was just in that chair. you're getting the fairy dust. charlie, i said to him. by rainier at a cocktail party someone walks up and says my grandma or mom has a little bit of a dry powder money. i truly believe now she shouldn't. it is getting now is put up or shut up time. tax cuts are happening. you have to see it translated into corporate earnings. that will justify the levels. and now it might be a time to take a little breather. you have to see if the tax cuts really do produce what the market is suggesting that it produces. where had you been. as last week's story. and just catching up. i don't believe her charges. they generally lie about the step. the thing about

bannon claims sheldon, bernie marcus and peter. was that just arrogance? was going on to think he was the product and not the salesman? >> he's delusional of someone buying their hype and getting burnt for it. this whole thing started last february when steve was on the cover of "time magazine" and steve made the transition from being the guy behind the guy to wanting to become the guy. the king maker and everything he did at that point forward was positioning himself. >> and can steve bannon survive without robert and becca mercer? these are two tweets, first, the drudge report put out the idea he's fining happiness in the arms of a new billionaire and on the right side that essentially larry and susie will take breitbart to the future. then you have the story tonight that essentially the mercers completely dropped bannon, and that their split was so complete, so bitter they cut off funding for the private security detail. can steve bannon and breitbart survive without the mercer's money? >> i think steve was so dependant on having that mercer money and b

bernie marcus is up there. ken langone another guy up there, both home depot cofounders.eil: sheldon is in casino. >> sheldon is in the casino business. the name coming up right now is kind of interesting, steve cohen the hedge fund impresario, if you remember three or four years ago the feds were targeting him for insider trading charges. they shut down his hedge fund. charged his hedge fund with criminal insider trading. negative charged him. securities & exchange commission commission brought a civil charge later got dropped. some. people involved in that case, failure to supervise case. some of the people he allegedly failed to supervise actually got off. their cases got overturned. meanwhile he is coming back to the hedge fund business. this guy is always pretty secretive. aside from buying expensive art and insider trading allegations you don't really see that much about him but now we're running the numbers. this guy is emerging one of the top gop fund-raisers, particularly now giving money to mitch mcconnell's super-pac. mitch mcconnell has a super-pac designed, h

griff: neil you'll talk to bernie marcus, right? neil: right the home depot co- founder. scooped up his liquor enterprise, but he's big on giving all his money away before he goes and i asked him did you sit down with your kids and discuss this and apparently they were all okay with that but we're seeing a lot more of that and he thinks this tax cut is going to generate even more of that, coming up. pete: good stuff. rachel: thanks neil. pete: watch from 10-12 eastern time. appreciate it. well look whose back and looking around the corner. abbey is here for the first time since becoming a mom. baby isabelle grace and husband is with them, next. don't leave. ♪ isn't she lovely when you combine ancestry's dna test with its historical records... ...you could learn you're from ireland... ...donegal, ireland... ...and your ancestor was a fisherman. with blue eyes. just like you. begin your journey at ancestry.com pete: welcome back remember this moment on fox & friends from june? >> abby: yes i will show all of our viewers out there that have been so great about writing me, we