let me welcome back thomas massie. joining me now. getting sassy with massie. welcome back, congressman. i want to read you one of your tweets from today. you wrote, president at real donald trump visits this a.m. is the more charge than media would like you to believe. but i'm still no. he's worried about our elections in 2018. i'm worried about his election on 2020 if he puts his name on this and this becomes trumpcare instead of ryancare. it replaces subjects does, mandates and penalties with subsidies, mandates and penalties. the fda says lite beer has 67% of the calories of a real beer. and this bill has 67% of the subsidies of obamacare. kennedy: what is the most troubling aspect of the legislation. there is something the speaker can do to amended that trouble to bring you on board? >> the amendments they offered don't change much. the most troubling thing this bill are the subjects does. they are called advanced refundable tax credits. gnats money ghosts of straight to the insurance companies. it's welfare. instead of a refundable tax credit, i'm waiting

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i'm bob massi. i'll see you next week. [ woman vocalizing ] good night from new york. >> announcer: from fox business headquarters in new york city, "wall street week." gary: welcome to "wall street week," i'm gary kaminsky. trish rsh -- trish: i'm trish regan. >> to accomplish our goaments ao accomplish our goals we have to make it easier for businesses to do business in the united states. i'm asking all members of congress to join me in dream offing big and bold and daring things for our country. trish: then this happened. >> if we hit 21,000 today -- gary: the rally did slow down towards the end of the week but one of our guests thinks the trump rally has a long way to go. he thinks we'll see 30,000 by labor day. paul, you are saying 23,000. let's talk about this week first. what did you have make of what happened this week and why was it we made these new highs after the speech tuesday night? >> i think as each day goes on we give investors less and less reason to sell. think all those people wh

coming up on "morning joe," steny hoyer and thomas massie will be weighing in and joining us live from capitol hill. >>> also still ahead, while the president's health care plan might be up in the air, his pick for the supreme court neil gorsuch is looking more and more like a sure thing. >>> plus the united states defeats puerto rico to win the world baseball classic. it's one of those moments -- it's like do you believe in miracles? certainly historic in its own way. we'll have the highlights, plus a check on weather when we come right back. kevin, meet your father. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom? life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you. there's nothing more than my vacation.me so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. they offer free cancellation, in case i decide to go from kid-friendly to kid-free. now i can start relaxing even before the vacation begins. your vacation is very important. that's why b

i'm bob massi. i'll see you next week. ♪ important book "what the deep state gets wrong." >> announcer: the new "wall street week." maria: welcome to "wall street week," the show that analyzes the week that was and position you for the week ahead. i'm maria bartiromo. tony robbins will join us in just a bit. but first it was a busy week from main street to k street to wall street. the big event was the jobs number friday. the u.s. economy added 235,000 new jobs in the month of february. the unemployment rate kicked down to 4.7%. it looks for conatiothat the fed will raise interest rates next wednesday when it meets. there is a 90% chance of an interest rate hike at that meeting. the industrials snapping a 4-week winning streak. other big headlines moving the market. the republicans rolled out their noon replace obamacare. the bill facing tough criticism from conservatives. it does eliminate most taxes from obamacare, especially the ones targeting investors, the white house and house speaker paul rya

i'm bob massi. i'll see you next week. [ woman vocalizing ] that's it for us tonight. thanks for being with us. special coverage of the kentucky rally monday. >> announcer: from fox news headquarters in new york city the new "wall street week." reporter: welcome to "wall street week." i'm maria bartiromo. some of the biggest headlines that will continue to impact investors. the federal reserve increased interest rates by a quarter%. >> the simple message is the economy is doing well. we have confidence in the rebustness of the economy and its resilience to shocks. maria: oil and gold both rallied as investors celebrated the federal reserve's move. and the signal only two more hikes may come this year. technology stocks among the best peormers. facebook, alphabet, apple, all tting all-time highs. the trump administration releasing its budget proposal. the white house is seeking a $54 billion increase in military and security spending. it's cutting spending for the epa and the state department. the proposal calls for $1.5 billion for construction of the border wall. it f

i'm bob massi, the property man. i'll see you next week. [ woman vocalizing ] thanks for. >> announcer: from fox business headquarters in new york city, a new "wall street week." gary: welcome to "wall street week." i'm gary kaminsky. dagen: i'm dagen mcdowell. this was a week where wall street and washington were closely intertwined. the healthcare saga coming to a close friday in the house of representatives. the president pledge to do tax reform next. the stock market had a losing week in large part because of the healthcare turmoil. the architect of the president's affordable care act zeke man well will be on our show. devin nunes disclosed donald trump's transition team may have been under surveillance. chuck schumer promising a filibuster for supreme court mom knee neil gorsuch despite what was a strong performance in his hearing. schumer is urging his colleagues to vote no with him. a despicable terror attack in london. four people killed and 40 injured after a terrorist mowed down the people on the westminste

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he says even limited use could dedestroy the environment, possibly resulting in n a massi famine. >> we need to get people to understand that these weapons are essentially suicide bombs. and if the states use them, they'll destroy themselves. >> reporter: a world without nuclear weapons is a long way away. he said it will take a lot more diplomacy to get there. he says continued public awareness and pressure could ultimately persuade companies. to give up their arms. emiko lenart, nhk world. >>> malaysia's health minister says the body of the half brother of north korea's leader is still in kuala lumpur. whether it will be handed over to pyongyang is believed to be central to negotiations between the countries. they're trying to end a mutual travel ban put in place as diplomatic relations between them deteriorated. >> the body is still in the hands of the ministry. until such a time we get any information that it should be released or taken out, from the ministry of foreign affairs. and the embassy y department. >> the announcement poured cold water over speculation the countries had

sad. >> thomas massie, are you scared?ause steve bannon says that the jet fuel of air force one is going to come to your district and be clarifying to both you and the teaming masses below air force one? >> are you shaking in your shoes? >> how scared are you? >> are you all right? >> you know what, he can bring air force one, marine one and amtrak one. it's not going to change what i'm going to do. my constituents sent me here -- they sent me to d.c., frankly, to drain the swamp. we were excited. conservatives were excited when we heard donald trump was coming to help us drain the swamp. but now he is taking advice from the swamp creatures. >> yep. >> now you talk about this bill. only a 17% approval rating for this bill. you're back in your district. are people coming up to you, weeping in the street saying, why didn't you support the 17% solution? like are you catching grief for not supporting this bill? >> no. it has a 9% approval rating in my district. so, you know, maybe one in 11 suort this bill. and it's only becau

host: when you hear what rand paul has to say about this bill and what congressman thomas massie of kentucky -- was the main conservative argument against a hca? >> that it is open to care light. host: what does that mean? guest: in the sense that you still have subsidies. tax credits. there are conservatives that don't like that idea and they think it is too much money, too generous and they don't like the essential health benefits and categories of coverage that are required in the bill. they don't think they want that and they just don't like any kind of prescription, if you will, of what has to be covered in the health care bill. they want market forces to find that. those are the key. host: jonathan can be written, oregon. a democrat. caller: my name is john and i have 31 years experience in i.t. and 20 years experience in health care. i was working for a large health downsystem at hospitals through california. i work for a federally qualified health center. one of the things, in terms of medicaid, from what i understand, is i took a form yesterday that had a number of ceos from hospita

republican congressman thomas massie of kentucky is joining us now. congressman. >> thanks for having me on, poppy. >> look, you were going to vote no on this. you're not exactly in the best place with the president on the health care bill right now. let me just read your response to the president tweeting and taking on the house freedom caucus. you wrote, " @realdonaldtrump, it's a swamp, not a hot tub. we both came here to drain it. swampcare folpolls are 17%. bad"! here's the thing, this is someone saying to the dems, i'll work with you over some fellow republicans. are you worried about your party getting too fractured that you're not going to be able to get anything done? >> well, look, we were excited when donald trump said he was going to come and help us drain the swamp, but he's listening to people in the swamp on this health care bill. and if you also notice in that same tweet where he lashed out at the house freedom caucus, he lashed out at every democrat. and the math just doesn't work if he wants to get to 218. he's either going to have t

joining us right now republican congressman thomas massy of kentucky who is against the bill. congressman, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me on, wolf. >> thank you. are there changes you're seeking that potentially could result in a yea vote from your perspective, but maybe that could doom the overall health care bill? because moderates won't like it? >> well, the biggest change we want should be acceptable to everyone, which is to make affordable health insurance legal again. and specifically what i'm talking about is the essential health benefits and dealing with preexisting conditions. not forcing healthy people to say pay the same price for health insurance as unhealthy people. those are the changes that we're hoping to make. so we can get back to health insurance that people can afford without subsidies. >> how do you expect your more moderate republican colleagues in the house, some of those who are in danger in districts in pennsylvania or new york or new jersey, how do you expect some of them to vote for the bill that strips what they would re

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together their act and puts together some streaming video thing, it's going to be a very difficult, massiassive head wind for netflix. >>> from hot stocks to one that's been fizzling. coke is the worst-performing chart stock. but they think it can make a come back. >> talk about dogs for dow. this is the worst-performing stock in the dow jones average. what we do know is the consumer staples as a group have started to come back to life and have actually outperformed the market. coca-cola is perhaps the preeminent staple stock there is. and i want to put this in context. take a look at these stats. these are some of the biggest movers. these are killing the market year-to-date, obviously, we've got smokes here, diapers here, bleach here. big numbers. procter and then down here, lagging in a big kind of way, every one of those stocks i just showed you, killing the market. in a way, this is maybe the most important in the longest sort of pedigree of all. i want to look at coke and talk about it as a catch-up trade. okay. so before i do that, let's talk about the difficuvidends. this goes in

representative thomas massie vote last night going from no to no. >> i don't know where this thing is lyt lands in the ocean, and this thing >> reporter: the numbers are fluid, butt dozen republicansluh to kill the legii leave more people without coverage. a agree onote if it ha the wire. it is ther obamacare, as i called. weighing in today saying this is a measure that's helped he supporting that it stays in pla have urged new leadership today to pull the bill, rewrite it, for a vote at a later plan b. they expect it to the senate. >>> this morninghilalphia are w how the gop affect residents. is live in center city.e affordable care act, you'reticuts to medicaid. it's what the discuss today. if repealed, 1 in 6 adults in the to lose coverage. from mental h care, those benefitpr. they'll all lose out on coverage. health care proio coverage costs will go up and so will wait >> as a doctor, i can say this. care. this bill cruelty. it hurts the people who our care the most. it's wrong for d it's wrong for the and propone the bill sayt competition. it would eliminate penalties fo. they al

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and in others leak congressman massie complained bob pressure to get onboard. how to vote, and what will be allowed to work on, if vote fails is that a republic. with tension building some tried to play the role of peacemaker. >> we have support from freedom caucus members from this bill. and we have opponents in both camps, tblame any single group would be a huge mistake. reporter: there was also tension of more traditional kind between republicans and democrats, and anger erupting with accusation that g.o.p. lowered volume on democrats floor microphone. >> this debate is too important to have our microphones at a lower scale. >> what does g.o.p. stand for, get old people. that is what this bill does. that is what people are voting yes for today. let me say, we have an obligation. reporter: healthcare deadline day began early with those favoring this repeal and replace plan calling for action. >> i appreciate the input of the administration, i appreciate the fact that the directive to us last night, was to put our pencils down and turn our papers in it is time

kennedy: thomas massie made the best pointed to cut the department of education parents will send -- still syndicates a skull and also if you make cuts to the epa people will want a clean environment. you believe that or do you think government is the only thing keeping us from being destroyed by our own causes? >> at think of these cuts are implemented i don't think the world will be dead. i'm pretty sure we would go on but again the key point here is th is a lot noise. u have a lot of republicans who say let's cut the foreign aid budget and democrats say let's raise taxes. neither of these things solve the long-term fiscal picture. the entitlement reform, a small part of the budget that is not determinative whether we fix our fiscal picture. entitlements entitlements entitlements and donald trump does not want to touch entitlements. kennedy: i think democrats and republicans breathed a sigh of relief every time a president says that. basically we are never going to have a meaningful budget that actually takes us out of financial crisis. >> we really aren't especially as you mention

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fox news legal analyst bob massi has been following the hearings very closely. ainsley: i'm great. thank you. let's start with senator leahy. this is what he was asking the judge on corporations. listen and then we will get your reaction. >> okay. okay. >> we elevate the rights of corporations over those of real people and we rubber stamp a president whose administration has asserted that executive power is not subject to judicial review. ainsley: okay. bob? >> so he is trying to get him in a corn tore try to basically show he is for the big people, that he is an elitist that, in fact, is he partisan, that is he pro-business. he is pro-employer. he is pro-trump. and gorsuch is too smart for this. he basically answered in a way to say, look, again, i will make all decisions that come to me on the law that's before me. i am not a partisan judge. justices sit there to give the interpretation of the constitution of the law before me. and so, again, the theme of all these democrats, ainsley, is going to be the big versus the small, and that's who he is for. ainsley:

. >>> massi ud was shot. he had driven a car through crowds causing many casualties. >> on thursday there was a 75- year-old man has also died when his life support was switched off. bringing the total number of fatalities to four. one of the dead is being named as kirk udrain from utah on a trip to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary when he was killed. his friends have been paying tribute. >> he was one of those guys, you know you wanted him to be your friend within five minutes. >> thousands of londoners gathered and caught up in the attack. the crowd was addressed. >> we come together as londoners tonight to remember those that lost their lives and all of those affected by the horrific attack yesterday. but also to send a clear message londons will never be affected by terrorism. >> the city is getting back to normal but the attack won't be quickly forgotten. people continue to lay flowers to remember those that died. although isis say they inspired the attack police say there is no evidence but they h

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thomas massy said he was changing his vote from no to hell no. >> i'm not going anywhere. this will not pass. >> reporter: joe biden seemed to revel in the drama. don't rule out a last-minute deal orchestrated by the president who knows that more than health care may be at stake. what he is saying to republican members, moderates and conservatives, get on board on this and we can do so much other bigger things, tax reform, tax cuts, infrastructure, immigration. let's get past this. let's get it behind us. if we don't, it is going to sink us. so the white house has a lot at stake in this. the president personally has put a lot of weight behind this. in about an hour and a half he will meet with the house freedom caucus, a group of the conservative house republicans. he may try to offer them some inducements to get them on board. the challenge is doing that and not turning off more house moderate republican who's are concerned about some of the things that the conservatives want. this is a real balancing act for the president and republican leaders here in congress. >> thank

thomas massie of kentucky "sorry to let you down, i'm changing my vote from no to hell no."ere are enough votes publicly stated to sink the bill but public whip counts in these situations are notoriously unreliable and there's also reporting the gop leadership is going to bring the bill to the floor even if they are seven votes short so they're planning to go through with this without knowing if they have the votes. the tremendous risks and consequences for a president already playing defense next. >> i want to get to taxes, i want to cut the hell out of taxes but, but -- i had no choice. this is the silverado special edition. this is one gorgeous truck. oh, did i say there's only one special edition? because, actually there's five. ooohh!! aaaahh!! uh! hooooly mackerel. wow. nice. strength and style. it's truck month. get 0% financing for 60 months plus find your tag and get $5500 on select chevy silverado pick-ups when you finance with gm financial. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. >> i want to get to taxes, i want to cut the hell out of taxes but, but -- i had n

bob massi, thank you, my friend. >> the prodigal son returns, my friend. stuart: whatever you say.action. adobe, nice gain, 5% higher. adobe is technology company, got photoshop. good demand for the stock in the adobe umbrella. tiffany doing well in japan and china. high-end jewelry selling well there. not so good in north america. asian sales are good enough to push the stock up nearly 3%. market scan, please. have a look at the entire dow 30. where are we? plenty of green. plenty of red. i would call that pretty much a mixed market with the dow down eight. >>> show me the white house steps again please because by our estimation, we're about one or two minutes away from the arrival of germany's chance lore angela merkel on the doorstep. ashley: german timing. stuart: that's right. liz: watch for the smiles. stuart: germans known for punctuality. i want to see if there big smiles when the chancellor gets out of the car and greets president trump. i will guarranty there are smiles. >>> we're celebrating st. patrick's day on "varney & company." check out the bagpipers on "fox & frien

kentucky representative thomas massy did change his vote overnight going from no to hell no. including members of the conservative freedom caucus standing firm against the measure. >> i don't know where this thing is going to land. hopefully it lands in the ocean and this thing just sinks. >> reporter: the numbers are fluid but right now two dozen republicans are in the no or leaning in the no columns, enough to kill the legislation. to flip those votes gop leaders are considering changes that will allow insurers to sell scaled back plans with less coverage, giving consumers more choice, but critics argue that would leave more people without coverage. one thing all sides seem to agree on here, the vote, if it happens, will go down to the wire. and that vote, no coincidence, it was scheduled for today, seven days to the year after president obama signed the affordable care act. today he issued a written statement touting the benefits of that plan and saying that more than 20 million americans now have insurance who otherwise would not. look, some republicans are urging their l

thomas massie of kentucky "sorry to l you down, i'm changing my vote from no to hell no."ublicly stated to sink the bill but public whip counts in these situations are notoriously unreliable and there's also reporting the gop leadership is going to bring the bill to the floor even if they are seven votes short so they're planning to go through with this without knowing if they have the votes. the tremendous risks and consequences for a president already playing defense next. distracting you? doctors recommend taking non-drowsy claritin every day of your allergy season for continuous relief. with claritin, you get powerful, non-drowsy relief, 24-hours a day. day after day. and with fewer symptoms to distract you, you can focus on the extraordinary things you do every single day. live claritin clear. every day. [kids cheering] [kids screaming] call the clown! parents aren't perfect but then they make us kraft mac & cheese and everything's good again. >> i want to get to taxes, i want to cut the hell out of taxes but, but -- i had no choice. i had to go with health care first

. >>> "out front" now, republican congressman from kentucky thomas massi.hanks for the time. >> thanks for having me on. >> you have been a no vote on the bill. no surprise. according to twitter today you've changed your vote as of this afternoon. >> yes. >> from no to, hell no. please explain. >> well, i thought i would double down. there's a lot of speculation as to whether members are changing their votes right now and i just wanted to let people know that i was steadfastly in the no category. frankly, i think that's indicative of a lot of my colleagues. i've counted 30 conservatives who are voting no on this, and they really aren't changing their position and haven't changed their position in the last 24 hours. >> that's very interesting because you hear a very different message from the white house and from republican leaders right now. the white house saying that the momentum's all in their favor, house speaker paul ryan saying they're adding votes, not losing votes today, and a spokesman for mark meadow who is you know well, the chair of the freedom

representative massie said, frankly, it's not very well thought out. so i don't think people are huddling. i think people are dispersed. so it makes me even more worried about what we're going to see later today. and by the way, all we are saying -- all we're asking is that we actually see the bill. we had a rules committee yesterday on a bill that quite frankly will not be the bill we're going to consider later today or tomorrow or saturday or sunday or monday. i mean, we're talking about health care that affects millions and millions of people and nobody in this chamber has seen what we're going to vote on. en what're g to vote s is ludicr ho can is b? wh areou thng? dohis right ers nru. stnompetin this is ludicrous. how can this be? what are you thinking? do this right. there's no rush. you don't compet points for being fast. and you know what -- you don't get extra points for being fast. and you know what we talk about, going after essential services that basically help the most vulnerable in this country, services like mental health treatment, tre

congressman thomas massie, ally of the freedom caucus, he was on the show moments ago.ng to need the democrats to help pass it. roll tape. is so you won't move at all. i mean, despite what the president has done overnight, you're not moving. >> no, absolutely, i will move. listen, stuart, the medicaid reform that's stuck inside of this bill is a good part of the bill. we should do it tomorrow. it saves $800 billion, and that's the part that lets us do tax reform. freedom caucus will vote for that, i will vote for that. let's get the stuff we can agree on, get that on the table, bring it for a vote. and the stuff we can't agree on, frankly, stuart, trump might need democrats if he wants to pass obamacare lite because it's not what conservatives campaigned on. stuart: that man on your screens right now, former senior hill staffer, a man who knows his way around washington bigtime, joins us now. david, do you think perhaps it was a bad strategy on the part of the president to directly confront and i -- and attack the freedom caucus? >> i think he should have done it a litt

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