stuart: and?ificant age for a woman to re-acespedes what they're going to do next -- reassess what she's going to do next. that's a big middle point. stuart: what are you hinting oturu? lauren: something like this or maybe something else. stuart: gas prices and gas of price of gallon of gas is under $3 in 33 states. look who's back on this program. patrick de haan from gas buddy. will the downward trend continue as part of the gas price when trump takes office? >> gas prices bottomed out in late december last two years and this year could be a bit different. oil prices still under a bit of pressure even though opec extended production cut in 2025 and two other states joined the sub$3 club: maryland and florida now making it 35 states. that's over 105,000 gas stations below the $3 a gallon mark and national average about 301 and dipping belize that $3 a gallon mark here over the weekend. it may stay there i think through lated december and gasoline demand is pretty soft. the prospect is very bright

stuart: 4%? >> yes, sir. stuart: take it.enter and power supply is huge. >> big story. stuart: coming up, trump says south american allies will take back illegal migrants or face economic backlash. >> they're all taking them back, yep. and if they don't, they'll be met very harshly economically. stuart: okay. do those threats work? former acting dhs secretary chad wolf is here on that. >>> canada's deputy prime minister abruptly resigns. it comes as trump's tariff pressure is clearly building. is prime minister trudeau in trouble? is it the trump effect? we'll hear from alberta's premier later in the show. >>> record number of shoppers using the buy now, pay later option this season. if that's the case, why are retail sales so strong? we will deal with that. ♪ tell me why ain't nothing but a heart ache. ♪ tell me why ain't nothing but a mistake. ♪ tell me why, i never wanna hear you say -- ♪ i want it that way ♪ it's hard to say who'll be more excited on the day after christmas. the guy who got a brand new truck from mom and

stuart: right.about the numbers of online friday, what does that tell us about the consumer. >> i have a daughter and a wife. i'm a bit of an expert on this from a distance. this is the most important thing i will say today. big shopping, consumer activity does not create a strong economy. it reflects one. stuart: exactly. >> people spend when they have earnings, when they have save, when they have productivity. you must first produce before you can consume. that's all this is. stuart: so it looks good, doesn't it? >> it certainly does. stuart: it reflects well on the consumer. >> the e-commerce people have done a great job marketing. stuart: trump is threatening 100% tariffs against several brics countries if they abandon the dollar as the reserve currency. what do you think of that. >> i think it's mostly posturing. nobody is abandoning the dollar as a reserve currency. some have transactions they want to do but they have to convert it back to whole dollars. the way to make the dollar the reserve

stuart.iz cheney, adam schiff, and dr. anthony fauci. many republicans are against this and even some democrats too, including one of the napes of course, this sun precedented in the nearly 250 years of this could be triple-demic and texas congressman gooden spoke earlier on "fox & friends". >> it's very cognizant of the fact their justice department is weaponnized and they've been in on an act of criminallalty and many stages of the presidency and they're worried about what's to come. reporter: the,s of issuing the preemptive pardons ahead of president elect's inauguration last month and afraid of retribution and dr. fauci has been afused by many -- accused of many republicans and watch dog groups of fraud and using an e-mail account to do business. senator elect adam schiff tells politico "i'd urge the president not to do that. it would seem defensive and unnecessary. president elect donald trump says he's not interested in retribution. he said that to our own sean hannity. it's important t

stuart: now this. of the largest suppliers to the makers of recreational vehicles in the world, they're going to be ringing the opening bell on the nasdaq tomorrow. the chief executive is andy nemeth and he joins me now. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. stuart: january 1st, you know what's coming, six states mostly out west but also including new jersey, i believe, they want to ban the sale of gasoline powered or diesel powered recreational vehicles. ban the sale. january the first. what are you going to do about that? >> that's correct. our industry works well together with our customers, partners and industry association to do all we can to do what's in the best interest of the consumers. stuart: what are you going to do about a ban? that's not going to go down well. >> from a business perspective, california represents about 15% of the total motorized units sold on an annual basis. they represent 21% of the total units. in total, it's 3% of total rv shipments. for our su perspective,

stuart: good morning, everyone. it crossed the milestone overnight call it the trump bitcoin rally it's now at $102,000 per coin, 102,8, to be precise. the latest move up came after the president-elect nominated paul atkins to the sec. he's crypto-friendly. bitcoin is in record territory. meanwhile, the trump rally in stocks continues. the major averages all hitting record levels this week. a little bit of red ink this morning, but not that much, dow off maybe 40, fractional losses in the s&p and nasdaq. politics. doge goes to capitol hill today selling the war on government waste. elon musk and vivek ramaswamy will be meeting senate and house republicans. they will outline their cost-cutting plans. at the moment the republicans like what they see. if how will they feel their pet projects get the axe? on the show today, president biden in africa, he appears to rest his eyes for a minute, holding his head in his hand. it's not a good look. reporters shouted questions about hunter's pardon, hay got no response. this w

stuart: djt. t. they're down as president moving $4 billion stake into the media and technology company into a trust and means he has indirect control. stuart: tiktok fighting back against a potential ban. they say it would be a violation of free speech. do they have a case? we'll put that to legal eagle shannon bream. congress what's till immediate night for a spending bill to geg bill to get passed and things are getting ugly on capitol hill. >> extreme members are marching america to a shut down that will crash the economy and hurt working class americans because they would rather enact massive tax cuts for their billionaire donors than fund cancer research for children. stuart: i would beg to differ on that one. however, california congressman darryll issa will tell us where negotiations stand. he'll join us after this. ♪ to go further, you need to be ready for what's down the road. as energy demand continues to rise, we're harnessing breakthrough innovations to increase production in the u.s. gu

stuart? stuart: lucas, thank you very much, indeed.er $1 billion on dei grants. former education secretary betsy devos is here. [laughter] may if i ask, what would you have done with a billion dollars? >> well, stuart, for one thing, it would not be going into dei programs or mig of the sort. the best -- or anything of the sort. the best thing president trump and linda mcmahon can do the take the sundays and block grant them back to the states and local districts, get them closer to the students themselves. unlock education freedom and send money directly to families or with families to support their choices in their children's education. this would end this nonsense that has been going on in the department of education for years to continue to a leftward bent toward everything progressive and liberal and not in the interest of our kids. stuart: you want to abolish the education department. really like to do that. but you can't take the unions, the teachers' unions out of the schools. in my personal opinion, they are a big problem here

stuart?ery much, indeed. >>> a bit of a turn-around for the dow industrials, we're up about 120 points. the s&p 500, that is now up ever so slightly, a tiny loss for the nasdaq. >>> now look at dow winners. what's at the top of that list? i'll tell you, it is unitedhealth, walt disney, johnson & johnson, caterpillar. now the s&p 500. this is an opportunity to see your stocks as most people who are investors have some of these stocks. huntington, cigna, cvs health, unitedhealth group. nasdaq, asml -- and we have -- don't know that one. lauren: mercado libre. stuart: that's right. and on semi on the list. >>> still ahead, liz peek will react to the biden administration not answering direct questions about the mysterious drone sightings. tennessee senator bill hagerty, he's going to be here on the backlash over biden selling border wall materials. ukraine says it assassinated a top russian general. what does that mean for the peace talks? incoming special envoy to ukraine and russia, retired lie

stuart? stuart: all right. thanks very much, indeed, jeff. the year article, trump doubled down on wanting the use the military to round up illegal migrants. his advisers say they're planning to build detention centers to hold these migrants until they can be sent back. texas public safety department lieutenant chris oliveraz joins me. do you think we'll be using the military to guard these detention centers? if so, the that's a big with leap. >> it is, stuart. good morning, great to be with you. i think with the plans in place, i think the military can be beneficial, using them to guard some of these detention centers. it'll alleviate, you know, border patrol agents so they don't have to be at these centers processing, babysitting. now they can get out in the field and seize drugs, look for criminals. for example, in texas our national guard, they have been fundamental as far as what we've been doing on border security and provided so much value to the border operation not only guarding facilities, guarding areas where they can observe any c

stuart: oh.auren: you downsized office space and saved money through covid and years after and workers are saying uh, now what? same pre-deckdeckment lauren: we do you want me to put my stuff? lauren: stay home and going for them and mandate and return to office. stuart: moving onto netflix and doing very well recently. lauren: 904. ups raised to $1,040. not the highest on the street but it's up there and they expect netflix to add 32 million subscribers this year and another 22 million next year. stuart: that's a lot of subscribers. all right, thank you, lauren. coming up, donald trump. could there be a public policy influence. we'll cover it. california plan for a high speed rail is an absolute disaster and more than quadrupled in price and already about four years delayed. we'll bring you an update on this project froms formally golden state. some democrats accuse trump of handing over his power to elon musk. >> elon musk is kind of cos playing co-president here and i don't know why trump hand

stuart? stuart: thank you, alex.on joins me now -- christian whiton. trump wants us to stay out of syria, but we're bombing isis bases. so what is our role in syria? >> our role is probably just the sit back and watch. you know, there is this hope that we're dealing with a kinder and gentler form of jihadist, but if you look, these are battle-hardened jihadists. they have just won a very hard-fought battle, and they are not probably going to govern syria in some sort of classical democracy. we know that. it's unlikely they'll even govern it ine form of moderate dictatorship. these are e have to worry about them that they'll inspire other adherence to political's elim in places like egypt -- islam in places like egypt or saudi arabia. yes, it's good that the united states, turkey and israel are bombing what's left of assad's military, but after that we should probably just stay out and watch. stuart: the way i see it, there are two big losers from, what, the revolt in syria. russia, because they might now lose their w

stuart: okay.lly stays in place despite the slight uptick in inflation, that's your position? >> yes, sir. stuart: and going higher in 2025? >> i think 2025's going to be a good year in the market -- stuart: not as good as '23 and '24, surely. >> we say that every year. stuart: that's true. >> trump's going to bring the irk finish o market back, you're seeing deregulation with the banks across the board, and i wouldn't be surprised if we release a lot of these a.i. companies. cerebrus has already filed an s1. stuart: everything's looking up, isn't it? >> well, it's christmas time. [laughter] stuart: kyle wool, thanks for joining us this morning, we appreciate. >> thank you. stuart: the new york attorney general, letitia james, her office says they will not drop the $486 million civil fraud judgmenting against trump. trump's team says that decision will interfere with the, with trump's duties as president. todd, i'm sorry, this is outrageous. how will new york's judiciary ever get its reputation bac

stuart: thank you for joining us this morning. >> always, stuart. stuart: secretary -- secretary of state antony blinken giving long awaited testimony on botched afghan exit. just as he began his opening remarks, he was interrupted bay gaza protester who called blinken a war criminal and was escorted out. there are more protesters in the room. blinken started his testimony by admitting biden's administration didn't anticipate the afghan government would collapse so rapidly in the face of the taliban advances and he's still testifying and they are still protesting. turning to the markets, the dow right now -- flat i have to say. it's down 50. look at nasdaq up 272 points. mark tepper with me for the hour. start with your outlook for 2025. where are we going? >> two ways to look at outlook. number one, the economy is super strong and look at where we've been over the course of the last four years and then the four years before that. in my opinion, the best way to really pressure the strength of the u.s. economy is to look at the quality of life we all

stuart: a little.ction were held again now, you think trump would get much more support in new york city? >> trump is never going to win new york city. we have to put that out of our minds. he already made historic gains in the city during the election because people are fed up, look at the economy, prices, migrants anywhere. i think people recognize there's a problem and you saw that. every district swung toward trump in new york. he didn't win but the gains were undeniable. stuart: do you see any trump packed in the city? >> i have seen much more openness in ways large and small. >> not that i've done this but you could wear a red am80 a hat in new york city has not get heckled today. i see it all the time. stuart: you can walk down sixth avenue with a red hat. >> if anything you get a nod. >> you might get a lot of these. >> 8 years ago you would have been ganged up on. you would not have made it down -- stuart: things are changing fast. thanks for being with us. still ahead, where does kamala harri

stuart? stuart: chad, thank you very much.ays and means committee, nicole malliotakis, joins me now. you don't support this spending bill, so can you tell me what happens next? >> so i had to come out against this bill two days ago, well before elon musk, and the reason was because of the process. what happens next, we don't know there's a lack of communication from our leadership to the rank and file members. and that is part of the problem. that is part of the reason why there was so much opposition to this. speaker made a deal with the democrats but didn't in inform us, the members of the congress, and allow us to weigh in before doing the handshake. and that's why you saw this type of rebellion take place. i think members are very frustrated because either we would have a clean c.r. just continuing for the next 35 days or 3 months until we can get president trump sworn in and do the work that the american people elected us to do and they spoke loudly about, or you -- if you're going to open up this c.r., then at least figh

stuart: thank you, tammy.k to the markets. >> president trump has his extra two months and getting his things in order and already getting what he wants to get done done. that's a big push for the markets. and economy and interest rates that he wants rates to be lower and fed's already were bier looking at about 90% and interest rates lower in the coming year and another tail winter storm for the market and the economy is sensorineural vent and strong and inflation starting to somehow down a bit and the economy is holding up. and then less regulation and add all that together and going higher. stuart: going higher. 12, 13 years since we had a market that just went like this. we've had a bull market for seems like s15 years to me. >> yes, there's been blips along the way, stuart and sometimes we've had a couple of down years in there and couple of flat years in there but really when you look back, if you expand for time horizon past years and out to 50 years or 100 years and market ends it to go higher. >> we r

stuart. stuart: got it. thanks, hillary. good stuff.buchar does not support the idea, she's a democrat, she does not support the idea of preemptive pardons. >> i am not a fan of these. i didn't like the pardon of the president's son. i didn't think that that was prudent, but i also am very concerned about this idea of preemptive pardons. i am of everyone a very concerned about what trump will do with this justice department. so this is, you know, the president has this power. i would prefer that we actually trump abused this pardon power. i think that we should have pardon reform. it is a right of these presidents. stuart: all right, the powerful chair of house oversight committee james comer joins me now. congressman, what do you make of preemptive pardons for people that may be trump's future targets? >> well, preemptive pardons are corrupt by nature. it doesn't matter who the president is. but you look at klobuchar and other democrats coming out of the wood work criticizing joe biden and his family's influence peddling schemes and cr

stuart: now this. council meeting, chicago mayor brendan johnson ordered the removal of people protesting his action on migrants. watch this. >> you caused this money to go to illegal immigrants. you are going to be held accountable for it. you are trying to cover up where our money actually went. >> it is your fault because you gave the money to illegals. >> you still feel you have to harbor these illegals which is not a good idea. >> can you do the job? it is looking like you can't do the job. stuart: pastor cory brooks joins us now. if the election were held today, would brandon johnson still be the mayor? >> he would not be the mayor. we are in the midst of a leadership crisis in chicago. just had a budget approved to appease voters. it doesn't do anything for us long-term, as relates to illegal migrants and illegal immigrants. of the election was held today, no question he would not win based on his past record. stuart: what the answer to the migrant crisis in chicago? mass deportation? >> we have

stuart. stuart: thank you, we'll be watching. clinton adding to the list of excuses about why kamala harris lost for donald trump. watch this. >> vice president harris had an almost mappable job because r are she became a candidate when she couldn't legally access the money given to joe biden is she was essentially a stranger to people. stuart: jimmy failla a stranger this morning and harris was the only option if they ped to keep biden's cash and they were stuck with her. >> that really sum this is up in a nutshell and their priority was themselves and their money and that was the biggest criticism of them during the election and they kept telling you everything was fine because they wanted you to believe it and was they'd be find that was the big lecture on the economy and going for $7. it's the surrogates on tv and they're not your problem. it's the cash register and bill clinton is telling the truth about the border and remember when he was campaigning and said maybe if they vetted the migrants that young lady wouldn't have g

stuart. stuart: brooke, thank you very much indeed. border czar, tom homan, say the cartels are changing strategy ahead of the next trump term. watch this. >> i think the cartels are breaking up into smaller groups and that way the president of mexico can say i've stopped these caravans and working with the cartels to put them in smaller groups across the border. this will not stop. stuart: ron vitiello joining me. ron, there'll be no change at the board eric till january 20th. still using catch and release and using the app to fly them in. have i got that right? >> that's right. they've moved illegal traffic to the air and air travel for people coming from overseas directly into the united states and they're just as illegal and have the same status as people crossing the river illegally down in texas. so we have an administration that has lied to us about what's happening on the border for about four years and had unprecedented surge in illegal entries in the border and going in the boarder and the biden harris administration and it'l

same to you, stuart. stuart: look at the markets.in right there, you're up 139 points. not bad. the nasdaq, by the way, that is a new all-time high. look at that, closing in on 20,000 on the nasdaq. have a look at the s&p winners headed by lululemon, now up 17%. ulta brew -- beauty's up 12%. hewlett-packard, dollar general, all higher. nasdaq winners, the top performer there is lululemon. moderna, sirius, mongo db and dollar tree. we have a big friday show coming up for you. we'll a hear from jason jason chaffetz on the "morning joe" crew calling doge an unrealist willic -- unrealistic scam. karol markowitz. steve hilton looks at trump's upcoming trip to france. he seems to be taking more and more presidential power. we will be back with more. what does a good investment opportunity look like? at t. rowe price we let curiosity light the way. asking smart questions about opportunities like ai. and how the industries born to support ai might better support us all. .. ♪ i have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well. ♪ ♪ it's a little pil

stuart: got it.t charlamagne tha god said about the democrats and hunter's pardon. >> hunter was singled out because he broke the law. that's number one. he was singled out because he had an illegal gun and tax evasion. i just want about the democrats to stop acting like they're on the moral high ground politically when they have shown us heir not p. things like biden pardoning his son, stop acting like y'all are the pure party republicans aren't. stuart: how can the democrats now complain if trump goes after the kiss credited justice department -- discredited? how do they complain now, congressman? fellow, they can't. look, everyone's starting to wake up to the hypocrisy of the democratic party where for the longest time they said we believe in the rule of law. when he found out, president biden, that he couldn't utilize his position to influence the the outcome and his son was going to be charged, he then stepped in to pardon him. i tell you, i think what's happening, stuart, is that tax evasion ch

stuart: are more new highs on the way? >> yes, stuart. i am fully invested on behalf of my clients because i believe we will continue to see new highs. this is not just a honeymoon period that we're experiencing right now in the market. yes, it's been a wonderful first month since elections, but i think there is more to come because not only do we have gdp that's growing at 3%, not only do we have earnings growing at 10-12, not only do we have unemployment very low, down to 4%, we also have a fed cutting interest rates and, most importantly, we have a white house that is coming in that is sensitive to the american people and to american businesses and providing the incentives so that they can prosper individually and collectively. lauren: and people are excited about that a. >> yes. lauren: the fox polling shows that 54% of voters said they're hopeful postelection. 50% relieved, 48% excited. >> excited. stuart: i believe there's a new mood in this country. lauren: yep. >> yes. stuart: it's a positive mood, andst because of trump and what

stuart: how about tesla? to 411 and going for them to upgrade to buy and target of 380 and accommodated regulatory environment and software 13 and getting rave reviews from drivers that have been able to try it. stuart: tesla is up again. thanks, lauren. new york city paying hundreds of millions of dollars to house those migrants lydia hu, legit to be paying for the foreign country? >> talking about pakistan, stuart. the roosevelt hotel is owned by pakistan international airlines, which is a state controlled entity city. new york city entered a contract to pay $220 million to use the roosevelt hotel and more than 1,000 rooms for migrants and illegal migrants coming into the city. "a taxpayer-funded hotel for illegal migrants owned by the pakistan jim jordan government and means taxpayers are going to pay a foreign government to house illegals in our own country. this is nuts". ramaswamy will lead the department of government efficiency, or goge with them and going for them to cut federal spending and waste af

stuart: yeah, it does.ker you have a wonderful weekend, and i wish you a merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you as well. thank you. stuart see you later, kenny. we have the latest read on inflation. the personal consumption expenditure report, the fed's preferred inflation indicator. what do we know? lauren annual numbers, 2.4% in november. lighter than expected but more than the previous month. that is the number, as you said, that the fed pegs their 2% inflation target to. and at 2.4%, it's still above 2%. if you look at the core pce price index, 2.8%. that's same as the prior month but, again, less than expected. bottom line, inflation coming in lighter, more favorable, however, still sticky and too high. stuart tiewfort got it. let's have a look at bitcoin, shall we? well below 100 grand this morning. lauren: hit 108k week, now it's the at 94. some are calling this crypto bloodbath. that's harsh. i think it's really just getting caught up in this broader caution on risk assets especially after the n

stuart: get out of here.er] we've got to start with this, incoming senate majority leader john thune is planning a sweeping bill on the border, defense and energy, and it's the expected within trump's first 30 days in office. he wants to use the budget reconciliation package to provide funding for border wall construction and for border agencies. his proposal to also convert discretionary defense spending into mandatory spending. the new republican senate is going to move very quickly on trump's agenda. the president-elect is telling the gop he wants the pick to -- ready to move in on day one. here's senator shelley moore capito. >> he thinks we are ready to go and he sort of celebrated some of the wins and some of the difficult states like pennsylvania and ohio, and and so we were excited to hear from him. he gave us a few chuckles along the way too. [laughter] stuart: okay. all right. todd piro with me this morning. trump's hitting the ground running. has his rapid action caught the democrats by surprise? >

stuart? stuart: thank you very much, indeed.ca roasted president biden for essentially disappearing after trump's win. watch. >> trump isn't president yet. a fact that's getting easier and easier to forget as joe biden seems to be disappearing from the public stage as his term comes to an end. >> i guess what i'm more concerned is less am i seeing joe biden enough, it's more like do i feel confident that joe biden behind the scenes is thinking about every single way he can try to future-proof the white house, and do i think joe biden himself is at, like, command thinking about this? right now, like, i don't. [laughter] stuart: that's kind of left-leaning podcast, i suspect. bill hemmer's here. this is -- we are living now in the live action trump presidency. >> yeah. stuart: he is the president. >> yeah. i think it's fascinating to watch and see it develop. and i get the impression that a trump really wants to manage it, wants to hit the ground running. i thought the best quote from that was tommy vitor who worked for obama. he

stuart: now this.ailure to pass the government funding bill shows how difficult it will be to extend the trump's tax cuts. that has rattled the stock market. late last night, 38 republicans in the house voted against a trump supported spending and debt deal, trump had demanded a yes vote and threaten to primary anyone stupid enough, his words, to oppose him. oppose him they did and the bill went to defeat and the government faces a shut down at midnight tonight. at this point the republican party is split. trump's control of the party has been challenged and there is some resentment of elon musk. on the other side, biden is still president, he supposed to be in charge, nearly 200 democrats voted against funding the government, they are shutting things down. they are playing politics. that's what they are doing next year when the new congress takes over. it will be hard to extend the trump tax cuts when the gop has only a razor thin majority in the house, and the party is divided. there is no republican

stuart: now this.ooping cough, not sure of the pronunciation, on the rise across america. ten times more cases reported compared to last year. doctor frank contra sessa joins us now. don't we get vaccinated for it? >> yes we do. typically we see seasonal rises in whooping cough, back to a pre-pandemic level, before the pandemic, we do get vaccinated for the starting in infancy, four, six months you start to get boosters for this. we do but we are also seeing falling vaccination rates, skepticism of the pandemic towards vaccines led to a lower vaccine rate. it is treatable with antibiotics, only a threat to the young and old and sick. if you get it for a short while the cough can last for months. not something to panic about but we have to deal with it. stuart: vitamin c could increase the chance of survival. is this a big breakthrough? >> it was a small study, they took high doses of vitamin c, a thousand milligrams is the typical vitamin c supplements people take. 75 times that amount given three time

stuart: a cold up his cup alien. stuart: working on it.ate? should there be a role for christianity in public schools? that is happening in some states. >> we see specifically texas some laws being put into place, basically what they are trying to avoid his ideology of any sort pushed onto kids and part of that is being let's teach the bible as a historic book. that is fine. do we want to involve the state in our churches? absolutely not. the only place our constitution talks about religion is in the first amendment, the state shall not establish any one religion over another and secondly congress shall pass no law that prohibits the free exercise of religion. that is sound, solid, we don't want to get rid of that and trust me, if we say other states should get involved with religion, one day or the next we are going to have a very sad involvement of state and religion and that is not healthy either. stuart: we have to -- >> proper separation according to the constitution. blue and come back soon because i want to discuss this more. progra

stuart: autozone.parts seller, the ceo is optimistic about same-store sales in the us, us margins came in strong. 3,370 one dollars, that is a new high. stuart: they don't believe in splits. the house financial services committee is going to start looking at claims of the banking. dozens of crypto executors have fallen victim to this. grady trimble joins us. what exactly does the banking mean? >> reporter: banks refused to work with certain clients or businesses particularly those that might be seen as risky. those in tech and crypto currency claim they are being blocked from the banking system. a congressman vying for the top spot and house financial services committee says the committee will investigate these claims. it comes after venture capital's mark and recent told joe rogan that 30 tech vendors have been the bank during the biden administration, two crypto comp -- companies tell fox business it is happening to them. coin base has documents that show the fdic's directing it. >> the fdic's or any

stuart: stuart: today is december 12th. in 1980, december 12, '44 years ago today, ipo, apple went public. the ipo price was $22 a share. please do the math for me. what is it worth today? >> $66,000 because shares were 13,803 after four stock splits. a good investment with the first share. it is pretty impressive. stuart: very impressive indeed. what when a company. thanks for being with us. always appreciate it. thank you very much. looking at the movers, starting with what a name for company, riot. stuart: starboard volume is taking her steak and pushing to convert riots mining facilities to space for big data centers. i see that as crypto and ai working together. neil: uber, i have a thin piece of it, it has been going down recently. lauren: it is up 2%. the cfo out with positive comments, he said their algorithms are sophisticated and will deepen their partnership with google's position in autonomous vehicles. stuart: did pepsi get an upgrade? lauren: so did all 3 from deutsche bank, nonalcoholic beverages are coming b

stuart: still ahead. anxiety pills, graffiti, a garage full of luxury cars, the world is getting its first look inside bashar assad's abandoned palace. get ready for this. a regular-season nfl game in 2025 which is american football taking over? i don't think so but we will ask the question. congress working to protect kids online, the bill is picking up support from trump and even elon musk. senator marsha blackburn is a lead sponsor of this bill and she's next. ♪ an alternative to pills, voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement. what does a good investment opportunity look like? at t. rowe price we let curiosity light the way. asking smart questions about opportunities like clean water. and what promising new treatment advances can make a new tomorrow possible. better questions. better outcomes. stuart: 46 minutes into the trading session

stuart: i kind of like this. not exactly religious christmas music about carol of the bills is reasonable. good morning. a curmudgeon, aren't i, good morning, 10:00 eastern, straight to the money and i see plenty, dowse up 60, nasdaq top 27, 10 year treasury yield coming down, looking at 4.15%. the price of oil is down, $67 a barrel, bitcoin struggling to get back up close to one hundred thousand dollars, it's close, 99-3 as we speak, numbers just coming in, consumer sentiment index. lauren: the numbers charles: that rose more than expected, this is a limiter number for the month of december, truly captures the sentiment around the country after the election. came in the highest since april and it rose as our belief that inflation will go up also rose to 2. 9%. this is the country feeling things will change even if inflation doesn't come down. stuart: things are looking up and that's reflected in that number and now this. biden is taking us down a sinkhole. the idea of preemptive pardons makes a mockery of consti

stuart? stuart: rich edson, thank you very much. now this.d trump's attorneys have filed a motion to have the new york hush money case completely dismissed. they referenced the president's sweeping pardon of hunter biden saying the new york case is the result of the type of political theater that was condemned in the pardon. former u.s. attorney guy lewis jones me now. does trump's team have a case for complete dismissal? >> stuart, what originally they did not, in my view, based on the selective prosecution, but this is another reason why the president biden's pardon of his son is too cute by half. they have now taken his own language, president biden's own language, put it in their pleading, and then walked into court in new york and said look, even the president of the united states in his son's case, the justice system is selectively prosecuted him. it was unfair, it was inappropriate. i had to put a stop to it. i think what he said was enough is enough. so they've used that language to go in and say hey, if the president of the united st

stuart: 200 billion.there appreciated doing that job and quality of the questions and the tone. the tone was a little bit nicer. >> yeah and the quality and tone of the answers as well. stuart: exactly. >> you don't have to be a partisan to look at what we witnessed yesterday and saying where all respect, the sitting president is not capable of that right now. he just isn't. jacqui: that is true. guy benson, thank you for joining us. see you soon. now this, the house doge caucus holding first meeting on capitol hill. what's at top of agenda. do we know? lauren: work from home, considering nine and ten federal employees don't go into the office yet the government owns and runs 7700 empty buildings, and those workers want to stay home. president elect trump says he plans to challenge their union deal that will allow them to until 2029. other places that doge could cut waste, heritage foundation points to 3 million for girl's centered climate action in brazil and 125 million for racializing public health and

stuart: thanks very much.retary says the chinese hacking campaign is still going on. >> you correctly describe this as a very very serious matter. china has hacked into our telecommunications provider and the extent of it is serious. i should say in response to that, we've taken action. our cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency published best practices that everyone should read. >> reporter: retired 4-star general jack keane joins me now. don't we need a stronger response than a memo? >> no doubt about it. let me state a couple facts, china is conducting cyber warfare in international power in a way we've not seen before. russia is also very good at it. china has stolen significant amounts of intellectual property averaging somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 billion a year, the greatest transfer of funding and property in history. what is happening here, china is using cyber warfare to penetrate some of our critical infrastructure while we are at peace, to understand what the challenges are associ

stuart: rich friends. we are talking about plutocrats and billionaires in the administration so the song is appropriate. rich friends as you gather on 6th ave. new york where it is very very cold. it is 10:00 eastern. straight to the money, the nasdaq hit a new all-time high, now we are at 20,032. the treasury bond, treasury securities a yield, 4. 36%. the price of oil $70 a barrel this morning and bitcoin holding onto $100,000. that's the markets. now this. to be a part of the trump administration, it helps to be very wealthy and successful in a capitalist. also helps to have made big contributions to the trump campaign. hard to remember anything on a scale like this. 8 appointees to the administration, all billionaires. elon musk, vivek ramaswamy, howard lutnick, warren stevens, jared isaacman, steve wycoff, kelly leffler, leaving out musk, their net worth is over $11 billion. musk himself has moved above 400 billion. these people earned is this money, they are successful in their line of business, repea

stuart: china is angry.ve invited social media companies to a meeting and it'll be in mid-december, what are they meeting about? >> a lot of this comes about their policies around drug sales online and mainly fentanyl that is become a big political issue one of the reasons trump wants to close the border with mexico, he wants to understand how these companies are surveilling online drug sales, what barriers they have around it, other monitoring this stuff just to get more information. stuart: tomorrow microsoft will announce whether or not they will buy some bitcoin, what we know about this. >> tomorrow we will have about whether they should publicly assess putting bitcoin on the balance sheet, board members at microsoft actually are voting against the proposal, we already look at all of these alternative ways to think about making the company stronger national center for public policy research is supporting the proposal and they said bitcoin is excellent if not the best hedge against inflation and will get

stuart: well well well.udeau reportedly told donald trump that his proposed tariffs would kill the canadian economy. how did trump respond to that? >> reporter: trump said of canada can't survive without ripping off the united states to the tune of one hundred billion dollars then canada should just become the 50 first state. justin trudeau nervously laughed at that idea but trump went further to offer justin trudeau the job of governor if canada were to become part of the united states. everyone was laughing throughout this conversation according to forces that were at the table trump and trudeau but the point was delivered and made clear that trump expects change before he gets into office on january 20th. trump wasn't just hammering home that trudeau needs to tighten up the northern border but the trade deficit between the two countries needs to be addressed asap. trump said of trudeau doesn't fix that there will be a tariff on all canadian goods on day one when he gets into office and if that were to hap

stuart: thank you warren.h mixed immigration status, watch this. >> i don't want to break up families. the only way you don't break up the family as you keep them together and you have to send them all back. we have to do our job and have a series of standards in a series of laws and in the end our country is a mess. chris cabrera joins us a national border patrol council vice president. how do you see breaking up families are making them all leave if one or two is undocumented, that's good to be seen as a little harsh. >> i don't think the intent is to make anybody leave what always happens and was always the case is apparent is the anchor not the child and if the parent is here illegally, the parent goes back to the home country in the child fall is apparent, that's how it's always been in as long as i've been a border patrol probably longer that's the protocol it is nothing new it just hasn't been done we put policy above law for the last four years. it is something new that shouldn't be. stuart: i think it

stuart: todd piro with me.ns aspire to be wealthy why the democrats demonize wealth. >> that is the point tim walz at the democrats wanted this to be a binary choice rich guy bad, poor guy like me good, that's not how americans view it they don't be a donald trump's wealth and elon musk's wealth as ill-gotten they view the individuals who worked their entire lives 24 hours a day seven days a week and they aspire to that, what they clearly rejected was the notion of getting rich off the backs of the government whether it becomes a handout from the government or living your entire life in government service and somehow making money off of your influence that is bad trump made the point and now look what they'll be doing with regulation they will remove regulation get government out of the way and let the private sector take off. stuart: things are looking up stay with me for the hour. bitcoin and other new milestone over the weekend. a wet and over $105,000. >> make that 106,000 for the first time ever a small pu

stuart: candy cane lane by sia.initely new song and singer to maine are you youngsters familiar with sia? >> we're definitely familiar with sia, yes. stuart: steve forbes is with me. have you heard of sia? >> sounds like c-i-a. stuart: waiting for donald trump's comments on the $100 billion investment from soft bank and he's expected to begin speaking very soon. you'll hear what he's got to say when he says it. on the markets, i see green for that nasdaq. look at it go. reached all time high just a few minutes ago. well above 20,000 now. dow's up 40, s&p up 25. big tech, a mixed picture mostly higher. we've got one loser and that's nvidia, but alphabet, amazon, meta all up. elevated levels and back at 440 -- actually 439 as of right now. now this, the president elect is on a roll. this weekend he went into high gear and this man is enjoying himself. getting things started friday, he met with apple ceo tim cook. the two have long had a friendly relationship. cook wants help with ai regulation, china policy, and pesky

stuart: i want to move on to brain rot.sen brain rot as the word of the year, some believe that endless scrolling social media rocks our brains. what do you think, scrolling produces brain rot? >> i want to point out oxford university press is saying brain rot is the word of the year. over there on the other side of the pond it is two words, brain rot is two words. and as far as this is concerned i think all of this scrolling or taking little bites here and there watching youtube not reading a book, not talking anyone anymore i think it does have impact on the cognitive sectors of the brain. there is something called the have no lua the center of the brain that has to do with putting it all together, the microprocessor in her brain and if you're listening elon musk, microprocessor in her brain and we are always stressing by doing more and more things and more stimuli in the short amount of time that's a problem. i think we need attention on one thing, "varney & company" for three hours. stuart: i think it has given me atten

she's my aunt and stuart's big sister. susan scott. >> you know, tamara, i never expected to be doing this. and it is one of the joys life. >> when she's not conquering the business world, she honors her brother's legacy, working with the v foundation and the event for the stuart scott cancer memorial research fund, which has invested more than $17 million over ten years. >> there's now a body of more than 50 researchers who have focused on the disparities in cancer research and treatment for people of color. >> do you think in his wildest dreams he thought it would come to this, like where it is right now? >> he would never have been able to imagine this. stuart was really good at playing a long game, a trait he has in common with one of the featured researchers this year, doctor adam murphy in chicago. >> it's a long game, and so i don't get disheartened by it. >> doctor murphy's focus on prostate cancer disparities in minorities is already changing outcomes. >> we were able to really leverage the work that we did in the

and if you know stuart, he's like, delighted. >> and she would know she's my aunt and stuart's big sister, i never expected to be doing this. and it is one of the joys of my life. >> when she's not conquering the business world, she honors her brother's legacy, working with the v foundation and the booyah event for the stuart scott cancer memorial research fund, which has invested more than $17 million over ten years. >> there's now a body of more than 50 researchers who have focused on the disparities in cancer research and treatment for people of color. >> do you think in his wildest dreams he thought it would come to this, like where it is right now? >> he would never have been able to imagine this. stuart was really good at playing a long game, a trait he has in common with one of the featured researchers. >> this year, doctor adam murphy in chicago. >> it's a long day, and so i don't get disheartened by it. >> doctor murphy's focus on prostate cancer disparities in minorities is already changing outcomes. >> we were able to really leverage the work that we did in the in the v foundat

charles stuart.rd bill barnes served in the united states army 85th division, known as the custer division in north africa and italy during world war ii. after the war, he used the g.i. bill to attend college and law school. he then joined the air force, retired as a colonel after 28 years in the jack core. let's recognize bill barnes. colonel joe mcphail joined the marines in 1941 and became a flying legend, serving in the marine fighter squadron, he flew 140 combat missions during world war ii, earning two distinguished flying crosses and 11 air medals. a letter served -- he later served in the korean war continuing his legacy of valor. please honor joe mcvail. born in denton, taxes on september 28, 1926, jack stowe will just 15 years old when pearl harbor was attacked. he altered his documents to join the navy. he was assigned to a seaplane base in the solomon islands where he witnessed battles and naval engagements. he served courageously before being discharged in january 1946. we honor jack sto