is not a new name to fox varney has been in the company for a few years what can you tell us about fox arts new c.e.o. . the word around d.c. of course is that he's a numbers man that he's a cost cutter and that comes with implications of course for unions especially here in germany who would fear job losses for any more strict cuttings from volkswagen disc aim from b.m.w. almost three years ago as you said how via and he came two months before the diesel scandal hit folks wagon and at the time that he arrived it was said that he had his eyes on the top position that he now it's been confirmed will take over but that of course he came at the wrong time his star fell a little bit especially as he got into a little bit of heat with the unions for his cost cutting tendencies. we've heard that since then of course he's been very close to some of the families that are the biggest stakeholders and movers behind volkswagen and that he's sort of ascended back to the top we don't know exactly what his stamp will be on volkswagen but we look forward to hearing more about it hopefully tomorrow no

varney. you have this great show on fox business. i want your viewers to become my viewers. ney and whitlock or whitlock and varney the greatest show in the history of fox tv. stuart: gee, you really did go to bed late last night. >> i did. i went to a justin timberlake concert last night. stuart: if you have real to beat mine first quarter, who have you got liverpool, roma? >> i would go with liverpool because i like liver. much liver is very tasty. stuart: please. that was good, whitlock. who is the top scorer for liverpool, can you tell me? >> i can not -- don't do this to me. i was having such a good appearance. now you will embarass me. renaldo doesn't play for liverpool. he plays for real madrid. stuart: his name is sala. who is the top scorer for barcelona? >> let me ask you, if we're going to play this game, who is the top player, who is the dallas cowboys quarterback, varney. stuart: hold on? hold on. who is it? >> dak prescott. stuart: come on. when you get to my age, your names, you can't recall very fast. it was fun, whitlock, it really was. >> thank you, varney,

we did hear from none other than larry kudlow, right here on fox business when he told stuart varney,dent is not engaging in a trade war. this is not going to be a trade war, a basically, folks chill out. e nyse tim anderson.floor of are folks chilling out at all? >> well, sure, and you know if we could hold these gains, liz -- trish, if we could hold these gains a very strong day technically for the market. it would be what they call an outside day where we open below yesterday's low and we close above yesterday's high, and technicians would view that very favorable. also, they would be holding the 200-day moving average and closing above s&p 2600. we're not there yet, we had volatile action in the last hour, a number of days in the last couple of weeks, but if we are able to hold the gains and that's what we're going to, want to be positive by a lot of technicians and market strategists. trish: thank you very much, indeed, it would be viewed very positively, in fact, the first time it's ever happened that we've been able to recover from a 500-point loss, so fingers crossed it happen

"varney & company" only on fox business network. [laughter] >> well, isn't that nice. we did move the market when larry kudlow talked china trade on this show is the president tough economic advisor yes join us again today later this it hour. you got to stay tuned for that. quick look at futures as we told you we will be down across the board this friday morning. joining us now market watcher jeff seeger trade fight i can see that's a problem for investors i got that. but what about this disappointing jobs report could that be construed as a plus or for investors? >> yes about here's the why investors have been worried consumed with the potential of rising interest rates specifically a fifth interest rate increase this report for investors first of all it was a weak report wage growth stagnant weak report concerns that the consumers going to be damaged by the -- by the trade war. now, what you have is fed that might back off on raising interest rates and that helps the market. doesn't help not good for the economy. but probably good for the market. >> okay. i character

fox sports 1. good to see you again. >> good to see you, varney.een us of course. why a four-year high for nba ratings? what is the deal here? >> the product is good, they have young interesting stars with steph curry and dynasty with golden state warriors and lebron james what he is trying to accomplish with the cleveland cavaliers, with the philadelphia 76ers with this young kid ben simmons that captured the imagination. i think they have good product and food storylines and fascinating players. stuart: it is interesting as the nba ratings go up about 8% year-over-year football ratings are down 9% year-over-year. what do you make of that? >> well i think we need some context in terms of let's remember, that 9% drop doesn't mean the nba is even close to catching the nfl. so it's great. there is more opportunity for growth in the nba because their ratings hadn't been very good. having said all of that i think the nfl has come through a difficult stretch where politics has overtaken the sports and discussion of politics has overtaken the sport where

varney & company is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: how about this one, just in, fox business has confirmed that house speaker paul ryan willnce he's not running for reelection in november. joining us now congressman adam, republican from illinois. congressman, that spending bill was wildly unpopular, paul ryan got some of the blame, is that why he's out? >> no, no, paul ryan, look, we achieved tax reform, that was his dream for 20 years, he's been waiting on -- he's given a lot to his country and unless somebody questions conservative principles, he was the first that i know talking about entitlement reform requirements, paul ryan is a great man, in fact, he is retiring today, it's a huge loss for the house gop. stuart: you're worried going into midterm elections because you lost quite a few republican leaderships, you lost them. >> it's to expect, we knew going into this year, last year before we even started whenever a party has unified control of government they are going to lose seats, very rarely has not been the case, i think it was 2002 under w. because that was right after 9/11, we have a lot of defending to do. we

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fox nonsense. with respect, governor, we are not exploiting, we are reporting. the third hour of bonnie and company is about to begin -- "varneyned by troy edgar, the mayor of los alamitos california. they voted twice to join a lawsuit against the law and to defy the sanctuary state law. mitch mcconnell slammed the president saying he won't get what he wants. he was speaking with neil cavuto and his a book will go back into that spending bill. president trump not get the rescissions he wanted. what say you. >> we will see how it plays out. he was very happy to see the increase in defense spending but there's a lot of wasteful spending in the bill. we know you don't always get everything you want but i think it's clear that he wants to pursue some revisions to the right. >> can you do it without support from mitch mcconnell? >> politics is politics but how it works out in the end is not something the economist will be thinking about. there is a lot of wasteful spending. it's easy to pick out what the president doesn't like. >> senator mcconnell also suggested he won't change the 60 vote rule. that's not in the constitution. >>

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