♪ ♪ cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone, in for maria bartiromo.is thursday, december 26, your top stories, 6:00 a.m. eastern. today, president-elect trump's christmas message includes a threat to chinese soldiers that he says are stationed at the panama canal, another offer to purchase greenland and a surprising offer to canadian citizens if the country were to become the 51st state. mike johnson's leadership is on the line as allies urge trump to intervene. what you need to know. futures, we are seeing markets pulling back. the dow is down by 168 points right now, nasdaq down 104, s&p down by more than 26. after markets were closed for the christmas holiday. and there's only a few trading days left in the year, four to be exact. all three major indices poised to end the year with the gains. the dow is up almost 15%, nays q up 33%, s&p up 26%. take a look at the banks this morning. look at jp morgan, b of a, citigroup, all in the red, several of the country's biggest banks are set to sue the federal reserve over the annual stress test. take a look

cheryl: a.i.cary to some that hear that type of plan or research, but what's interesting is you also say that sam altmann's open a.i., the chatgpt o-3 is alignment to keep a.i. within bounds and non-toxic, so there's still guardrails is what you're saying? >> there are and this has been something that's been very important i would say broadly in the a.i. community. this idea of interpreting, sort of understanding why my models might do what they do and ultimately, these companies they want to create models that are aligned with human values, because there are scary things when you think about these models teaching themselves, could they go off the rails is sort of a natural question, and there are safeguards being built into the models and i think are doing a good job of preventing that. cheryl: do you think nvidia is still a buy right now? >> nvidia is still a top holding intelligent alpha in our etf, livr, and so we're still believers in nvidia and our a.i. models are still believers in nvidia b

get free shipping at circulon.com cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone, i'm in for maria bartiromo. it is tuesday, december 31st, 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. new year's eve. time for the hot topic of the hour. one of china's intelligence agencies hacking the u.s. treasury. gaining access to several workstations and u.n. classified documents. treasury revealing this in a letter to the senate banking committee writing, quote, treasury was notified by a third party software service provider, beyond trust, that a threat actor had gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud based service used to remotely provide tech support for treasury department offices. the incident's been attributed to a china state sponsored advanced persistent threat actor. it's unclear what hackers were looking for, senior officials think it was a h espionage operation. this comes as the biden administration is dealing with the fallout from the salt typhoon hack, one of the most extensive and damaging chinese operations in history which impacted at least nine u.s. telecom firms. maria spoke with

cheryl: yeah.ell, and some of those names were certainly made during the pandemic and moments after. and and that's a paid off if you look at an apple or netflix, for example. your 5 for 25, let's look at them. >> so there's an a.i. theme in there, but there's also an old economy theme of companies that are pivoting to the new technology. so think of goldman sachs using generative a.i. to do some of the tasks that analysts have done historically. and same with spotfy on the advertising side. but we like these names. the first three are software names that can, that as we shift from building a.i. infrastructure, you need a service now to conduct the traffic, interpret the today a the flow. you need an amazon for cloud compute being. amazon was our pick of the decade in a "wall street journal" interview a couple years back, and we continue to like the the name. of we love the management team, and we love the free cash now. that's certainly one that your viewers should look to buy on weakness. and the

cheryl: exactly.hat's obviously going to be -- we're going to continue on that train whether it's technology with cyber security or with a.i. which is still seems to be the theme for next year, the evolution anyway. you say another big theme we'll talk about in 2025, that's going to be ipos. what are the hottest names on your radar right now and when do you think deal making will pick up. obviously with the change in administration and that change at the ftc and the s.e.c., is that a net positive do you think for the ipo market? >> i certainly think that the ipo market feels that it is. i think that people are dusting off their banker's phone numbers and giving them a call after what's been a few years slowdown for ipos and m&a. i think we're going to see those floodgates open as early as february, march. there are a lot of companies that have needed to ipo that really can't raise more in the private markets and so i think that we're going to see them. the names that i'm most excited about are a lot o

i'm cheryl cheryl casone.ting the ground running, support for president-elect trump's second term growing as more fortune 500 companies shell out donations for his inauguration. at least 15 large corporations and trade organizations have made major contributions. "wall street journal" pointing out it's the first time in at least a decade that goldman sachs, intuit, toyota and pharma if are donating to an inauguration fund at all. a record $200 million already raised, and it's on track to beat the $107 million trump brought in for his first inauguration. president biden's raised only $61 million. all of this following a long list of high profile executives flocking to meet with trump at mar-a-lago ahead of his presidency. joining me now, texas congressman and house oversight committee member pat fallon. congressman, are you surprised to see what seems like an about face from corporate america? if what are you hearing back at home in texas? [laughter] >> well, cheryl, corporate america used to be pragmatic, and

cheryl: and good morning, i'm cheryl casone, i'm in for maria bartiromo. it is thursday, december 26th. 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. time for the hot topic of the hour. allies of house speaker mike johnson are warning any effort to remove him as speaker could delay the certification of the 2024 election. lawmakers will hold a speakership vote friday, januar. they'll vote to certify the election on january 6th. if they agree on a speaker. if the speaker is not electioned by that date lawmakers cannot be sworn in, therefore they cannot certify the election. took about three weeks for republicans to replace former speaker kevin mccarthy last year. texas congressman pat fallon is urging president-elect trump to reaffirm his support for johnson, saying the endorsement would be powerful. politico is reporting trump is unhappy with johnson despite say voiding a government shutdown last week. the incoming administration questioning whether johnson is capable of managing the republicans' razor thin majority. trump felt blind sided by the first cr deal johnson struc

cheryl: u.s.year fixed rate at 6.85% as of yesterday, as home insurance and property tax payments make up more than half of monthly mortgage payments for 9% of american single family homes. let's bring in global real estate advisor jenna stauffer. the big question with the fed moves this year, we have not seen any relief for mortgage rates. what are you hearing and seeing out there? >> we haven't seen any relief for mortgage rates. and this is what is so frustrating for so many people that are aspiring to get into the housing market. there was the expectation for sure that rates were going to end the year a lot lower than where they are right now. there was also the expectation at one time that prices were going to be much lower than where they are right now. and with that being said, cheryl, something that i'm seeing happening is people have lower expectations. they really don't expect a lot with the housing market right now in terms of big shifts. so that is one positive thing that i can say is

cheryl: rfk jr.n american health revolution. with us now, fox news senior medical analyst dr. marc siegel and doctor, what are the first steps you think need to be taken and his biggest obstacle might be if he is indeed appointed? >> great question. cheryl: confirmed. >> great question. first step, is to raise public awareness that what's in our food leads to our health problems later on, that this is a direct link between bad food and chronic disease, which is what rfk jr. believes strongly and i believe too. that high fructose corn syrup, a lot of sugar and fat that a lot of salt leads to bad health outcomes later on. i call it the sick care system. trying to raise awareness on that. that's step number one. step number two is a little more difficult. he's got to have a meeting of the minds with elon musk and the office of government efficiency and say that there's long-term and short-term and short-term, i like these tools, cheryl. i like ozempic, wegovn, and zepbound like musk likes them because t

cheryl: good morning, everyone. i am cheryl casone i'm in for maria bartiromo friday, december 27, 8:00 on the east coast time for the hot topic of the hour shocking images show the true extent of a damage caused by christmas day crash of azerbaijan airlines flight hundreds of homes on fuselage tail section of the jet crash-landed in kazakhstan after hundreds of miles off course 38 killed in that crash investigators turning attention to russian forces as likely responsible chechnya boundjet ended up in have area russian air ffs shoot down yuk cranian drone strikes but they said it would be incorrect to suspect the country is responsible it is speculative this morning azerbaijan suspending flights a political game costing lives half a million ukrainians dead untold number russian he forces dead passenger jet not the first time we've seen one shot down over skies of eastern europe russia involved the point that united states has no advantage right now, no negotiating advantage over russia. i think very eye-opening for

cheryl: people forget. lot of our communications are in undersea cables that are vulnerable. >> vulnerable to attack and really shows we need kind of peace across the world stage. otherwise the capital markets will be d dramatically affected. the capital markets don't respond well when cable lines are cut, planes are blast out of the sky so i think it's critically important that the trump administration gets in there and in a strong way puts and end to this stuff. cheryl: i want to ask you this. john bolton has an op-ed in the wall street journal about the united nations and the title is, u.n. reform planned for trump and for stefanik and he points out ms. stefanik, elise stefanik joins a lot long line of u.s. officials dismayed by the u.n. failings including deep seeded bias against israel. but the united nations is where you see actors from russia, zelenskyy, et cetera, coming to new york and making pleas for money and support. what kind of role do you think stefanik could play and how do you think could

one other thing, cheryl. in the history, in the history of the s&p, only twice, only twice has 30 day implied volatility or protection been cheaper than it is now in the s&p, so if somebody wants to ride this marketplace, santa claus is here, they want to ride it into the end of the year, it's going higher, now is the opportunity to buy that really cheap insurance, to buy that protection, that gets you out a month from now. literally two times in the history has it ever been cheaper. charles: scott i think it's not santa claus as donald j. trump right now but let me ask you about this because you mentioned fiscal policy and that's really important to br bring up to our viewers because we're sitting as a nation on over $36 trillion in debt and that sustainability just in the payments that we're making on the interest is something that is a market factor and does affect investors in particular, so look, if elon musk and vivek ramaswamy can actually deliver on promises maybe they can cut $2 trillion in spending

cheryl: good morning, i'm cheryl casone, i'm in for maria bartiromo. it is monday, december 30th. breaking news at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. former president jimmy carter has died at the age of 100. a look at his life and legacy all morning long. and other stories we're watching for you this morning, president-elect trump is urging the supreme court to halt the ban on tiktok if it cannot find an american buyer. meanwhile, as congress readies its vote for speaker this friday and president biden remains on vacation, his administration is told to stop auctioning off parts of the border wall while intense debate over the h1b visa program is erupting online right now. everything you need to know. taking a look at markets this morning. futures right now are in the red, just slightly, dow down 79, nasdaq down 44, s&p down 13. it is of course another holiday shortened week, markets will be closed on wednesday for the new year's day holiday. so we have two trading days left for the month of december. the fourth quarter all of the year and investors are putting their money into a few differen

cheryl: -- menace to this world. cheryl: congressman, very interesting with the shipping issue. lot to unpack there. thank you, sir. we appreciate it. congressman mark alford. we have a lot more coming up this morning. a major cyber attack by china of. lonthe treasury department raisg security fears weeks before president trump takes office again. heritage foundation senior fellow for china michael pillsbury is next on how the white house can protect itself from ccp infiltration. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ [sofi mnemonic] can a personal loan unlock your ambitions? oh yeah. borrow up to a hundred thousand dollars to consolidate bad debt and save money for your next goal. take a swing at your kitchen reno... meant that literally. or design your actual dream wedding. consolidate bad debt and fund all your ambitions with a sofi personal loan. go to sofi.com to view your rate. sofi. get your money right. cheryl: a chinese state sponsored actor hacking the u.s. treasury department in what's being called a major cyber security breach. the hackers remo

cheryl: good morning. i'm cheryl casone in for maria bartiromo. it is thursday, december 26, 8:00 a.m. on the east coast merry christmas thank you so much for joining us this morning, time for the hot topic of the hour trump upcoming inauguration just 25 days from now on track to become most lucrative yet, inauguration officials estimate trump will rake in par past 107 million in first inauguration 93 biden, by the way, raised 61 million dollars, in contrast. big companions are also going all in for trump, amazon meta openai ford intuit toyota pharmaceutical research manufacturers donating more than one million, uber donating two million dollars other donors goldman sachs gm by the way, at&t, stanley, black & decker ashley your thoughts looking proprietied or maybe nervous about second. ashley: a fit to that, if mark zuckerberg first button to do million everyone followed there is a lot of making up to do in regards to the past election, and i think trying to step up i mean if i looking at what happened in this election how decisive it was, in reg

more than cheryl and i. ej a don't know your football situation but we love watching the game on sunday but that doesn't also mean we shouldn't hold up to high esteem. >> king. those individuals need to be allotted for their achievement so more people want to do that. everybody can be the starting quarterback but everybody could be really good at math if they try and have the educational system to support them. right now the culture does not want that to seem to happen we want to focus on the fluffy stuff in the reality tv shows. i think that's what he's getting a and to that extent he is right. cheryl: a lot on the maga side are saying a lot of the tech pros are having too much say too much power in the ear of donald trump, how do you react to that. >> is a very healthy debate one of the things i love about trump in the people he surrounds himself with their all disruptors they ask questions for some reason were not supposed to ask trump asked why do we need nato anymore it was created to keep us in europe

cheryl: u.s.rd loan default highest in nearly 15 years americans unable to pay debts jeff flock joins us with more, jeff people have bern chargeing a lot. >> i am not good to do this when with i was unioning poor needed money did not credit cards you were in debt to friends parents mobbor something amount of credit card debt written off by issuers, 46 billion dollars first three-quarters up 50% year-over-year the worst since 2008 recession, latest numbers on how much that is costing us in terms of charging things paying interest, how about 170 billion dollars what paying right now, friend ramsey says paying cash if possible, you should, worst delinquency rates in o nevada almost 1% are delinquent florida arkansas texas also bad. as i said back in my day not so many credit cards now average household has five cards, and 10,000 dollars of credit card debt. total credit card debt in country right now 1.17 trillion dollars, you know christmas a bad time because you want to do christmas, right, well, 3

cheryl: good morning i am cheryl casone i am in for maria bartiromo. it is monday, december 30th 8:00 a.m. on the east coast time for the hot topic of the hour, president-elect trump asking supreme court to halt the upcoming tiktok ban goes into effect january 19th, one day before he aassumes office second time amicus brief trump lawyers asking for stay from plan that forces tiktok sold to american company for trump to make executive decisions of that nature after inauguration. tuesday attorneys general from virginia, montana filing amicus brief of their own asking supreme court to uphold saying tiktok cannot operate in states owned by chinese dpaen with potential ties to ccp montana attorney general speaking to "fox & friends" first earlier, watch. >> if anyone capable of negotiating this deal closing a deal getting china and bytedance die invested from tiktok i think president donald trump congress got this right tiktok chinese spy application the chinese communist party claiming first amendment rights here first amendment does not guarantee the chin

what does that mean, cheryl? >> cheryl: this entire op-ed baffles my mind.or donald trump, for republicans in several districts leaning left her in the center and they went right. look at a map of the country. >> charles: new york city. look at the map of new york city. >> cheryl: upper east side. >> charles: the shift is amazing. >> cheryl: the issues where the economy, number one, and number two u.s. immigration. "the new york times" can sit there and cry all they want in their op-ed section about what went wrong. this is completely misguided. >> charles: barack obama sat masculinity. >> kayleigh: this is the publication that apologized in 2016. they didn't learn many lessons. >> harris: was it a real apology? now we know. he lost a lot of people with the argument that somebody with xy chromosomes has a uterus. it really was baseline. when you go from a man having a uterus to where we are now -- >> charles: getting pregnant. >> harris: that's what the uterus would be for. [laughter] i love the fact that you maybe didn't know that. i'm just kidding. [laught

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cheryl casone from fox news is here with details. i thought shareholders aspprove this and say what a compensation package is, not a judge? >> cheryl: a judge says this was o overreach by elon musk and the shareholders and basically elon musk has too much control. this was a large pay package. look, he's okay without it. headline from fox business, elon m musk's compensation package re rejected by a delaware judge. musk responded saying shareholders should control, not judges. in january this became a legal issue and musk has taken corporation of tesla and space x and incorporated in texas. talk about cowboys, i can't take the pain. tesla stock is up 42% since the election 150 billion for him. he is the world's richest man, he's okay. funny post, he said never i incorporate in delaware. >> todd: if this business comes to united states under trump, corporations have to think strongly about do i go to delaware, which was always a safe harbor for corporations if this is how court inject themselves in my business. interesting to see what

would cheryl please find her, asked her dad. went through there-- the lucky's, the burger king, where she was supposed to be, walmart. back, came back 15 minutes later. keith morrison (voiceover): and when she went back into her dad's house, she found-- cheryl deanda: one of the worst sites i've ever seen in my life. he was laying face down on the floor in a pool of blood. it was horrible. what did you think happened then? i thought he had fallen, because he had a big gash in the back of his head. i just went to the kitchen phone and called 911. keith morrison (voiceover): but when she rolled him over, she could see wounds all across his chest. he'd been stabbed many times. it was every time i started doing cpr to him, every time i breathed into him, i could hear like bubbling, and air escaping. then i could-- then i started hearing-- feeling it on-- on his chest. keith morrison (voiceover): it's not often little placentia, california has a murder. daron wyatt: about 10 o'clock at night when i got the call. keith morrison (voice

>> well thanks, cheryl. i think to tag on what dutch was talking about his long duration trades, i think the biggest surprise of 2025 is going to be that the 10-year treasury gets big. yields compress. what we saw in 2016 after the election, treasury sold off, yields went up and after the inauguration of trump bonds got big, yields compressed and that will help dutch's long duration trades but we like simpler stocks. boeing is a headline today. that one is still down 60% and you can't give it away but guess what? kelly ortberg is fixing the ship with the union problem solved and the 737 back on the line and a half a trillion dollar backlog over the next 10 years, so i think it's going to surprise people that boeing continues to climb higher. >> but the concern about boeing though is correct any if i'm wrong about 60% of the revenue, the payment for each plane doesn't come into the company until they actually deliver the aircraft so all of this delay is one of the issues that hit the stock during the strike.

>> cheryl: not break dance, break it down. good morning, guys.the bell great aga again at the new york stock exchange. he talked about american businesses. this is the trillion dollar question, if you will. he talked about getting taxes down, corporate texts, 21%, his tax cuts expire next year he wants to extend it and he's talking about 15%. if you make your goods and services in the united states. tariffs on canada and mexico, more levees on china, drill, baby, drill. these things are what hes will bring companies back to the united states, bring businesses back to the united states. there is a lot of excitement around that. we have another read on inflation. he talked about grocery prices yesterday. we need grocery prices to come down, eggs and beef are two biggest hits in this week's report. those are staples. >> todd: eggs are bad again. >> cheryl: make eggs great again. these are staples of american families. there is a lot coming in. scott bessent was there with him yesterday, treasury nominee, i think he is going to spearhead a lot of thi

don't miss cheryl on mornings with maria, she is hosting today, going to be a great show.me point. >> todd: oregon rolling out a new toolkit to crack down on illegal immigration. every person has right to live, work and play in oregon, i'll have conversations to know your rights and understand what protection sanctuary laws provide and make a plan for what to do if immigration officials come to your home or place of business. joining us is owner of bison coffee house. is a sanctuary policy like that going to make oregon a better, safer place to live? >> i don't think so. i mean, they are going to do what they want to do as they continue to do the things they want, those who are running our state. we know the federal does trump state laws. >> todd: what was your reaction when you heard about this? >> i don't know, i was like, i feel like they would be putting people in dafsnger if they refu to cooperate with federal. the federal trumps the state at the end of the day. our governor is waiting to see what is mandating, but our ag says rosenblum is getting ready to go out. >>

cheryl. >> cheryl: this is one of the most catastrophic crashes we have seen over the years, that planeinternational at this airport. the pilots had reasonable amount of experience. bird strike is a main suspicion, ntsb, officials from boeing and faa are en route to do an investigation. a boeing aircraft. control tower had warned the plane about a possible bird strike, two minutes later, there was a may day call. they should have had other choices, but they did not take them. why didn't pilots land in water like miracle on the hudson? they landed in the water and efrp survived. that is not what happened here. this is airport is surrounded by water. two survivors, two flight a attendants in the back was the plane and tail. a lot of questions about what happened. it is a tragedy. other thing is they did not put the flaps up. flaps slow the plane down when you are coming in to land. those were not up. i'm thinking engines were dis disabled. aviation experts are talking about, you could have flown out and burned off fuel and then came in for belly landing and alert the airport to do foam an

cheryl has been following this closely. >> cheryl: revelations came out a week ago, now the problem is infrastructures cleaned up. this has been known since 2019, now money needs to be approp appropriationsed by this group. fcc chair woman said the program, which was established in 2019 to replace insecure equipment in 126 carriers faces shortfall that puts national security at risk. so the w"wall street journal" dd reporting on this about dozens of countries hit, voice, video, text, salt typhoon is ongoing. they did not just break in, look around and leave, does not work like this. they are monitoring this. other things we learned, phones of donald trump, j.d. vance, staffers, u.s. security officials, verizon, at&t, t-mobile. it seems to be region al attack, focused on u.s. security officials. they are looking for classified information from staffers in our government. there was a briefing last week on this and it is bipartisan, frustration with this. senators whiteen and smith want investigation into the department of defense on communications networks. they are saying, how can you h

it'll be exciting, cheryl. cheryl: rfk jr.ffler and other distinguished guests. maria: anding of course, the why have of the owner of the new york stock exchange, kelly loeffler, with trump. thank you, john, tiana and cheryl. stuart picks it up. he's going to be all over this

what did we learn yesterday, cheryl?e expect to see, he is serious with tariffs, about the border and will probably leave jerome powell alone. axios makes point trump would spike inflation, which is something american voters said they did not want to see more of. national retail federation says 60% tariff on china could cost $624 a year for american hours holds. full tariff plan would put middle income households in the hole. tariffs are threats and he's using for political threat with canada and mexico, china is a different story. w "wall street journal" wrote protection and pain. they are talking about, i won't get into the weeds of this, there is diminimus tariff exemption. the chinese company, temu and shein, have used this exemption to get african american the tariff situation, they are using mexico more. we shall see. other side of this interview yesterday was issue of jerome powell, will he leave jerome powell in his job? here is what he said. >> no, i don't think so, i don't see it. i think if i told him to, he w

cheryl casone, always a pleasure.overage on this story. >> todd: don't miss cheryl on mornings with maria. tonight is sixth an patriot reward. carley shimkus live at the tillis center to give us backstage look at all the fun happening tonight. do we have my colleague? thanks for showing up to work, carley. >> carley: todd! everything looks great, i'm excited for you to come down and see this. everything is being set up. i'm standing on official fox nation red carpet, your fox favorites will lineup and take pictures tonight. i want to show you more. follow me. this is what we're calling radio row. this is where brian kilmeade and jimmy failla will be doing their radio shows later today. this is all-were approximate, multi functional event. this is radio row here. we are in the tillis center, this is huge fevenue space for patriot award. when you walk in here, we have fox shop. you can buy some -- people scattered, you can be in the shot. you can buy christmas gifts if you need a pa patriot reward har snow globe. t-shir

>> cheryl: he was right by the hotel.t individual had -- the surveillance video had been waiting outside for some time in the cold at least. so waiting, they knew -- he knew who the target was. let's be clear. >> kayleigh: how did he know where he was staying, at the l the investors conference? >> emily: that's before four million people came for the tree lighting. there's a lot of theories floating around. what say you? >> julie: we won't speculate. yes, of course working at the largest insurance company in america, it was a personal ven vendetta. nobody assassinates somebody on the street unless you're out to get the person. whether they knew each other, that is questionable. i will say this. the nypd will find this guy. that theory has floated around, that he could have potentially committed suicide right now. he's not an egoistic killer like where they want to confront a cop and go out in a blaze. that's not this guy. is he a trained assassin? he was pretty good on the gun. he was able to fix it in seconds after it ja

. >> carley: cheryl casone is here. >> cheryl: it is cpi day, excited.numbers. we are looking for inflation to tick higher than last month. estimate is 3% month over month. 2.7% is tick higher than 2.6%. yesterday president biden gives a major address to the nation trying to defence his leg acy ad talk about the economy. here is what hes caused inflation. >> entire world faced spike in inflation from the pandemic and putin's war in ukraine. we acted quickly with help of republicans and democrats, inflation came down to pre-pandemic levels. >> cheryl: dan north says looking at this measure, nothings inflation dragon has been slain. he says inflation is still here, we don't have convincing move it will hit 2%. something he said i thought was interesting, he said wages have increased. they have not kept up with inflation, that is me saying this. struggle with high prices for housing and groceries and daily needs of life. you have been president for four years, that is why your party lost the election and voters have told pollsters that the economy was the n

i know cheryl's a realtor.he american dream is still very much alive in the united states of america and part of that is home ownership. building equity as you move along in life, you get married, have kids, you're trading up to a newer house and investing that equity of your existing house in the next house that you buy. i'm there. i'm 61. we're benefiting from that now having bought houses over a number of years. the average age now to buy their first home in america is 38 years. and this president wants to do away with title insurance. have you heard of anything crazier, maria? title insurance is a way to secure your title, to make sure there are no clouds on the title, maybe someone later comes back and claims an easement. maybe they say they own the property. for this president to call it a junk fee is preposterous and i think it shows the ignorance and lack of leadership on his part. maria: we will keep watching that. certainly keep a spotlight on it. congressman, thank you. we'll be watching your work, s

cheryl casone. >> i can't wait for that to pass.e what doge does with the epa, maria. maria: that'll be lee zeldin running things. thank you so much, guys. have a great weekend. "varney & company" picks it up now. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, everyone. todaying up -- tying up loose ends, the president-elect wants to hit the ground running. he's agreed he

cheryl: thank you, so have you. taylor: we have a fox market alert stocks heading lower on the last friday of 2024. hello i am taylor riggs i am in for liz claman. this was shaping up to be a significant sell-off but as you can see , we're a little bit off the lows of the session. at one point the s&p was up more than 1%, the nasdaq was up more than 2% and we're sort of coming back up off those lows so that's good news. here is other good news stocks are holding on to gains for the week. the s&p 500 is on track to snap a two-week losing streak. the dow and the russel 2000 are the small cap stocks also on pace to snap a three-week losing streak. and tech stocks also continue to lead for the week you have the nasdaq on pace for a fifth up week in six. let's stick with big tech because that is the focus particularly with apple. we are on $4 trillion market cap watch. i think that number we said was around 264. you're about 10 points away from that but again if we hit that 264, you're right around $4 trillion. we're doi

maria: have you ever seen this, cheryl? paying for interviews. okay.nterviews in a couple of weeks. he went on joe rogan. he would never pay for any interviews. people wanted to hear what he had to say. not to pay for it. have you ever heard of that, paying for interviews? >> the al sharpton example i find egregious. it's reported that staffers at msnbc say this can't go on, it's an in insult to their viewers. paying for the interviews is egregious. february 1st, the dnc has to elect a new leader. they better make a wise choice. they've got a lot of problems right now. maria: john, do you want to say anything. >> money isn't everything. john morgan knows how the average american taxpayer feels about the democrats having thrown the money at the problems and not getting any positive results. maria: there you go. let's get the weather check. snow hammering -- i said it, snow, hammering the great lakes region, millions still under winter weather warnings. fox weather meteorologist marissa torres now with an update. marissa, wow, look at those pictures. >>

find cheryl on mornings with maria. sorry my head entered that shot.own as crunchy moms celebrating nomination of r.f.k. jr. to oversee health and human services as trump focuses on making health a big part of his agenda. diaand and tess join me now. hot topic of discussion. what is a crunchy moms? why are you called a crunchy moms, tess? >> so crunchy moms, gra nola mom, basically a mom who makes cleaner, healthier lifestyle choices for their kids. the term was making fun of people, they are crazy and they are conspiracy theorists, to me, it is low toxic lifestyle. >> todd: as someone who grew up liberal, voted for biden in 2020, why did r.f.k. jr. teaming up with trump get you to vote for donald trump in 2024? >> it was exciting, i was excited to see a politician talking about something that is important to me and has been really important to me for a really long time. i feel like i haven't heard anyone in politics talk about issues with food and water and our environment and everything temperature is cool to see someone advocating and for big pharma

siegel thank you so much for being here we appreciate it. >> great to see you cheryl. cheryl: well, as the housing market continues to be a challenge for prospective home buyers you can watch my solemon "american dream home" to see the hidden gems in states and cities you may not have considered all episodes streaming on fox nation and that is it for me. i'm once again going to say hello to taylor riggs. taylor: i'm just glad if i'm doing double duty i'm doing double duty with you. we keep tossing back and forth to each other. cheryl: see you at 4:00. taylor: meanwhile, stocks are a little bit finally in the green. this is the first trading day after the christmas holiday. i'm taylor riggs, i'm in for liz claman. let's talk about it. it is the santa claus rally officially kicked off on tuesday this year, it runs through january 3rd. now, we're ending the year in positive territory, but still trying to reclaim those record highs. can the santa claus rally help us get there? meanwhile, one of the biggest stories of the year continues to be nvidia. new data showing retail

cheryl: new yorks. santa claus -- [inaudible conversations] only santa and the reindeer have are the right to speed if -- >> on christmas. cheryl: -- especially on christmas eve when it's very important the make sure all the kids get their presents on time. >> the has true. cheryl: a quick check of markets, just pour days -- if you include today -- left for trading. right now you've bot the dow down by 155 points, nasdaq down by 76, the s&p is down by 21. john lonski, ashley davis, thank you so much. "varney & company" if is on now, and it's ashley webster in for stu. hey, morning. ashley: thank you very much, cheryl. good morning, everyone. indeed, i'm ashley webster in for stuart varney today n. a series of christmas day posts on truth social, president-elect trump, oh, yeah, he went off to the canada, greenland and the panama canal. why not? if canada became the 51st state, their taxes would be cut by more than 60%. he claims america needs greenland for national security purposes and that the u.s. sh

cheryl mosey doesn't believe she can pass the added costs onto her customers. cambodia and india. if you're talking about adding tariffs on everything that comes in, people are going to be more concerned about buying their kids clothes and things that they need in their home, nota bag. now to the film business — because in the last hour or so we've had the nominations for this year's golden globes awards. box—office hit wicked is is squaring off against netflix drama emilia perez, in the best musical or comedy movie category — with conclave and dune part 2 among the moninations for best drama. but whoever picks up the prizes injanuary — this year, cinema itself is a clear winner. here in the us box office takings over thanksgiving soared to a record $415 million, way ahead of the record set before the pandemic. that's despite widespread concerns that cinema—going had been dealt a fatal blow by the rise of streaming services. richard cooper is research director at ampere analysis — which provides data on the global entertainment business. great to see you. let's

morning long wealth advisor chris mcmanus here "fox & friends" cohost todd piro and fox business cherylone, "mornings with maria" is live right now. we when it's time for the hot topic of hour president-elect agenda taking shape on trade in foreign policy with incoming commander-in-chief not mincing words when it comes to the tear promises digital political correspondent brooke sigman with the latest. >> good morning president-elect donald trump is laying out goals for his new administration foreign policy and trade agendas as new details are emerging about his friday night dinner with canadian prime minister justin trudeau the president-elect proposed 25% tariff on canada and mexico could reportedly cost each country more than $110 billion which is raising concerns for the canadian prime minister, trudeau told trout he cannot support the tariff because it would completely kill the canadian economy trump reportedly responding your country can't survive unless it's ripping off the u.s. in the tune of $100 billion, trump jokingly suggested that candida become the 51st state which caused t

cheryl: hurt. >> yeah. we'll be talking about this a lot in 2025. cheryl: thank you, jon, appreciate it. happy new year's to all of you at home. taylor riggs in for liz claman. taylor: okay, cheryl, this is the last time we're doing this. ly miss it. i want to wish you happy new year, cheryl. meanwhile, welcome, everyone. they're celebrating new year's in dubai at this hour. take a look at that beautiful country, beautiful, tall building there. we're going to be across it all. this is as here in the u.s. we are entering the last hour of trading for your 2024. there certainly was a lot to celebrate. i'm taylor riggs in for liz claman. let's do it. the s&p 500 on pace for the best two years since 1998. you have back to back gains of more than 20%. the top winners in the s&p 500, palantir, vistra energy, nvidia all up anywhere from 350 to 170%. and then there was bitcoin. remember that? it more than doubled. at one point it was up to to $108,000. we're below 100,000, but you're still up more than 100 on the year. there's a tale of two chipmakers this y

cheryl: absolutely the fate of u.s.el is an interesting question mark, i say that, because of the cfius review process later this month, after that review is done, president biden, still president could say "yes" to the deal. on the campaign trail, i am not saying will i am saying he could. on campaign trail both kamala harris and donald trump he exposed it u.s. steal workers he opposed the pennsylvania a swing state very important to election now that election is over interesting o to see what happens, this is japan, the u.s. ally, to be clear. but the u.s. steelworkers still a they will lose pensions if they believe they will lose jobs, if nippon steel takes over not quite question you asked but that is my take on what could happen, for u.s., nippon. >> an try arguably one of those industries thaz should be protected, given its -- relative nature in defense. i mean there is that as well todd president trump looking not just to protect this steelworkers in america, but also looking at this in a national security review

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maria: um-hmm what do you think cheryl.he other part that i thought so interesting when she asked him if he wanted to fire jerome powell he said no, look are originally appointed jerome powell. >>. liz: not going to reappoint powell. maria: he never said he was going to fire him in the middle of his term never said that. cheryl: she is asking that, and he is like i just don't see it, like i hope he does right thing interest rates, that is a key focus of this december meeting, beyond. but, you know, it is interesting how all these you know this -- these -- this democrats before the election you know, donald trump is back in office going to destroy the country democracy going to owned? all this, that person that interview yesterday, did not you know give them their witch did not give them what they were looking for his detractors at all. maria: -- want could be clear he said many time told me as well doesn't like powell's work he made mistakes but was never going to fire him in the middle of term not going to reappoint him in

cheryl cast -- thank you both for joining us. i want to pull up this graphic.ord credit card debt that americans are facing $1.7 trillion in credit card debt. that's up 8% from last year. what do you make of that number? what concerns you the most when you see that? >> we're addicted to debt. a nation addicted to spending. americans got all those stimulus checks and all the free money handed out in 2020, 2021 and went into 2022 and they haven't been able to bring that back to reality. i think that's a big piece of the problem. the other is we spend $1 hundred more than we did last year i think that's kind of that well, it's not going to come to roost. on my credit card. you will have to worry about it. what the banks are telling us, they're seeing more and more defaults on credit cards. so those americans that got so used to charging and spending more money are defaulting more and more and missing payments. those numbers are going up. when your financial institutions tell you americans are going to debt and missing payments and see numbers like this. i don't li