stuart: he did. lauren: they're still mad about it. stuart: thanks, lauren.ing up, elon musk reportedly secured office space at the white house. how much access will he continue to have with trump? we'll have that story for you. house republicans unveiled a bill that would allow trump to negotiate the purchase of greenland. the people that live there have mixed feelings about that. >> i like a lot about trump and their opinion about trump. >> i hate it, and basically i don't know what his aiming at. stuart: our next guest says acquiring greenland is essential to the national security. tennessee congressman andy ogles will make his case, he's next. ♪ let's go boys. the way that i approach work, post fatherhood, has really been trying to understand the generation that we're building devices for. here in the comcast family, we're building an integrated in-home wifi solution for millions of families, like my own. connectivity is a big part of my boys' lives. it brings people together in meaningful ways. ♪ ♪ stuart: house republicans just introduced a bill that wo

stuart: okay.our top investment theme for 2025? >> i would say my top investment theme is the continuation of the a.i. revolution. but investor shouldn't just lean into the semiconductor and chip space. also look to the periphery in the a.i. ecosystem. the data centers that we always talk about, and how about the cooling solutions that that those data centers need. i see tremendous growth opportunities ahead for those companies that provide the cooling solutions to the data centers. stuart: we talked about this. >> yes. stuart: because the huge problem with these data centers is keeping them cool. >> that's right. stuart: i know somebody who is actually dipping the racks in some kind of fluid concern. >> yes. stuart: -- to keep them cool. it has to be. >> yes. and there's three companies that that highlight that opportunity. vertiv is one, comfort system is another and how about modine manufacturing? sock is up over 100 over the last year -- stock -- and it's got a forward pe of just 26. so relativ

stuart? stuart: chad, thanks very much.ow listen again to what senate minority leader schumer said about the hearings. roll it. >> over the next four days, over a dozen of the president-elect's nominees will testify in committee and make their case to the country. these hearings, in a very real way, are the opening salvo for holding the trump administration accountable to the public. stuart: south dakota senator mike rounds joins me now. mr. senator, are republicans united behind all of trump's picks? will trump get them all in his cabinet? >> well we'll take them one at a time but as far as i can tell right now, i think that they will all be selected. i think they will all be approved, but once again, they are going to have to perform in front of the american public. the president will still have to support them after those public hearings, but with pete hegseth? i don't see a problem today. i think we'll be moving in the right direction. his focus is in the right direction. it's on lethality and the department of defense

stuart: that's right.at. next case is delta. are they up, down or sideways? they're up 7%. lauren: look at that. and you don't like airlines. [laughter] stuart: as an investor. i fly on these things -- lauren: they don't see travel demand slowing down at all this year and fliers are opting for premium seats and products. not only with the fourth quarter strong, it saw four of the top ten revenue days in their history. stuart: okay. constellation brands. they own corona, i think? lauren: modelo. stock is off 6. two big reasons. price is too high and drinkers are dialing back to calorie, lighter alcohol. and then you get that surgeon general warning on alcohol and maybe we change how we drink. stuart: maybe. okay. let's do constellation energy this time. they just bought cal pine energy. is this a nuclear energy company buying a clean energy company is? lauren: yes. constellation is nuclear, but cal pine is a private company headquartered many houston. they generate electricity from natural gas but also geot

stuart: sure thing.ed aer learning that wealthy people are hiring private fire fighters to protect their hos. ashley, how much does a private fire fighter cost? ashley: apparently as much as $2,000 an hour and as you say, that's not going down well with other homeowners that are upset that private fire fighters are being used. i never knew there was such a thing but residents were furious when one local homeowner, a cofounder of real estate investment firm posted on x "does anyone have access to private fire fighters to protect our home in pacific palisades? need to act fast here. our neighbor's houses are burning, we'll pay any amount, thank you". response was quick and angry. incredible nerve. his family was evacuated and he's trying to hire private fire fighters to risk their lives to save a home. he most certainly hay insured. incredibly tone deaf. another said this, you're suggesting that pomoxus ten you believely life saving resources, even if private, should be diverted to save your house because

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stuart: really?laughter] >> so -- stuart: are we're going to borrow even more after that. >> it's refinancing. we're not going to create $9 trillion in additional new debt. it's -- what a janet yellen did, instead of issuing debt as debt matured when she was pressure thely secretary and the $8 trillion that they added to the federal debt, she used mostly short-term instruments. so to keep the long end of the yield curve from going much higher, if you remember, something bad happened to to liz truss in the u.k. when long-term interest rates start ad to to go up rapidly. so this is a little bit of three card month ety, in my opinion, by janet yellen -- stuart: she rigged it. >> absolutely. stuart: she rigged the yield curve. >> yes. stuart: okay. i want to talk to you about nvidia. they've got new chips. you're telling me that they are three times the performance for the same price. is this the blackwell chip we're talking about? >> yes. stuart: or something else? >> yes. so everyone -- the main headli

stuart: this year? >> yep. stuart: 2025? >> yes, sir. stuart: not bad, thank you, mark., several different wild fires burning through los angeles county. max gordon joining us and he's now in pacific palisades. max, the big problem at the moment, obviously the fire but it's the wind as well fanning the flames; is that right? reporter: yes, these are wind whipped fires and the santa ana winds. these are offshore winds blowing from the east and they are blowing hard. one mountain top recorded a gust of around 100 miles per hour, and the national weather service says gusts up to 60 miles an hour could continue through tomorrow. now, it is very dry here in southern california, and you can see the destruction these flames have brought. we're standing next to a mobile home park here, burnt to the ground, and i want to give you a picture of just what this place looks like and what it normally looks like. this is the pacific coast highway. a famous highway, people drive it all the time on vacation, and out this way, you can see it looking out to the west should be the ocean. but

stuart: i don't see any near-term. stuart: the dow is up on her 60 points. stuart: up 30 and falling and the nasdaq is down one hundred 20 points, that may be because of the higher yields on the 10 year treasury. thank you. now this. this is a revolution. i know that's a very strong word but we've never seen anything quite like this before. the trump administration is bringing in a new form of government, a government run by business people, not professional politicians. in short, the trump team is trying to bring in the efficiency of private enterprise. that an alien concept in dc. trump is a business guy, has become a very effective politician, musk is the most financially successful american playing a big role in trump's circle. sometimes seems like the copresident, vivek ramaswamy is right by elon's side, so is doug bergam, designated to run the interior department, chris wright, energy secretary nominee, ceo of fossil fuels company. scott bessent, trump's pick for treasury plans to cut costs for business. since when has cost cutting been a government pr

stuart: okay.this rally's for real? the. >> i like it. i like 2025, i like trump being the the president. i think we're going to have deregulation and positive energy which'll help the markets. stuart: kyle wool, i know you're going to the inauguration, have a good time. we'll see you later. >> thanks, student. stuart: the latest on of los angeles, officials bracing for extremely critical fire conditions thanks to the return of the santa ana winds. high wind warnings in place through this evening. the fires have claimed 25 lives so far, 40,000 acres have burned, 12,000 structures have been destroyed. evacuation orders are still in effect for 88,000 residents. the worst of the blazes, that would be the palisades fire, still only 18% contained. and now los angeles county has issued a health emergency warning due to to the smoke. chair of the house democratic caucus, congressman pete aguilar, he will not support any conditions on disaster assistance for california. jason chaffetz, come on in, please.

stuart: okay.l the things -- stuart: what are they going to do about the extremely powerful marijuana that's out there all over the place? lauren: yeah. go after the vaping, very few people still smoke a traditional cigarette, and if you do, you know it's bad. stuart: sorry, todd, i've got to move on. >>> check futures, please. mixed picture emerging, down 3 on the dow, down 70 on the nasdaq. the opening bell is next. ♪ another one bites the dust the. ♪ another one bites the dust. ♪ and another one's gone and another one's gone -- the ♪ another one bites the dust ♪ (sneeze) (hooves approaching) not again. your cold is coming! your cold is coming! thanks...revere. we really need to keep zicam in the house. only if you want to shorten your cold! when you feel a cold coming, shorten it with zicam (revere: hyah) power outages can be unpredictable, inconvenient, and disruptive to your life, posing a real threat to your family's comfort and safety. when the power goes out, you have no lights, no refriger

stuart: no, i just can't. >> they're pretty cool. stuart: i'm an old guy.. >> you want your horse and buggy back? stuart: get out of here. [laughter] then we have microsoft announcing a big investment in india. what's it for? >> $3 billion in inned ya in the next to two years, all on data centers. -- in india. stuart: what are lofty expectations for a vaccine company? >> they're looking to get ten new approvals for vaccines by 2027. this would help the sales of existing drugs as well as they have a pretty good late-stage pipeline that they're looking at, again, trying to boost revenue. so, again, if they can get new approvals for things, it helps the pipeline. stuart: got it. we used to call this news you can use. mcdonald's launching a new mcvalue menu. what's on it, how much? >> the key news for me, i'll answer your question, it's national. so remember when i said last fall we were talking about how each franchise was testing out that $5 value meal, right, and you could do buy one, add one on option for an extra dollar? if mcdonald's now wants to make thi

stuart: no. >> i can't imagine. stuart: sets it back as you suggest. liz thank you very much for being here. got to get back to the market. see how the rallies going. it's still going. dow is up 670 but the nasdaq, that's up more than 2%. it's very solid gain there. scott shelledy with us this morning. looking at the stock market, are we off to the races? >> right now we are and a lot of folks put that up to the cpi but i think the cpi came in as expected and i know you hate those expectations, stuart, because the expectations were for i hotter cpi than what we had last month which it was but there are those on wall street that think if we meet expectations, that's a good thing and i think that's took the stock market up a little higher but this is on the back of the fact that you saw those four banks. wells fargo, city bank, jpmorgan, all posting very good numbers here today. i think that says something more about the broader health of our economy and you just can't get in the way of it so if i could put it into compare it to say a soccer team, stuart

stuart: thanks very much. i've got to change the subject, serious stuff, right now los angeles is burning. at least five out-of-control wildfires spreading in different parts of la county fueled by a life-threatening and destructive windstorm. >> the problem is this is a wind driven fire and spotted multiple miles ahead of the fire and we could have another 500 firefighters here on this incident and we still wouldn't be able to stop this fire. stuart: we are going to bring you updates throughout the school as we get them. trump's middle east envoy, good things to announce on the hamas hostages before trump's inauguration, rise me of the 1980 iran hostage release which we will get into that with former ambassador to nato kurt volker, his next. 've always bee than just football. ♪ even as a kid, i wanted to get my money right— and have the financial freedom to support the next generation of athletes. just like my family supported me. i joined sofi because they've helped millions of members earn more money, save

thank you, stuart. stuart: yes, indeed they are. thank you, jonathan.companies donating to trump's inauguration. which is the latest, madison? >> boeing and google. each company has given $1 million to president-elect trump's inaugural committee. google's donation, they're also going to to get a live stream on youtube, which they own, so not a bad deal for them. google and boeing have donated to other presidential inaugural funds, boeing says for the 35s three inaugurations. chevron also joining the list, but they will not say how much they've given to the fund. but that list is very long. as as a reminder, meta, amazon, uber. those companies you're seeing, they've all contributed to trump's inaugural fund. car companies toyota and ford also on that list, they have even given $1 million. businesses looking to curry favor with the incoming administration. should be divide the inauguration. stuart: i'm dying to see -- >> i can't wait, yeah. stuart: coming up, we've got the long-awaited trump sentencing in the new york hush money case. the president-elect

stuart. stuart: rich edison, thank you very much.oom for new solar panel development. lauren, what do they have -- extraordinary news here. what do they have to do to prepare? lauren: head scratcher, cut down 420 acres of forest in michigan. so deforestation is needed to go green. michigan is committed to achieving 100% clean energy by 2040. apparently at all costs. this land would be leased after a period of public comment and any trees in the way would be cut down. solar farms. last i checked, michigan is not sunny. and critics say this effort is all an attempt by the state to grab tax credits. some say lawmakers are so outraged they're calling for anyone involved in the decision at department of nash rale resources in the state -- natural resources in the state to be fired. stuart: well said. my personal opinion. lauren: michigan is not sunny. stuart: it's not. really isn't. the dow 30, please, we always say get a sense of the market. my sense is there's an awful lot of buying going on. lot of winners, plenty of green. dow is up 3

stuart: trump called on newsom to resign.ld agree with that. >> i would agree that a person who is the governor of a state like california should be in a position to handle a crisis like this in a much better way than this governor did. if resignation is the solution then maybe he should. that is down the line. i don't see the governor redesigning today. what i'm hopeful for the my governor is an actual response that includes not just taking care of everyone affected by this today but i'm talking about the future. that pacific palisades will be rebuilt. i guarantee you fat. it is somewhere that is going to come back. my home was likely saved i just found out yesterday but i have nowhere to go to. the house is in ruins, the town is in ruins. if you ask me if the governor should resign it won't matter necessarily at the moment it has been done. what happened has been done. what can we do going forward? i see a blame game happening, you saw it when confronted the governor, you saw nonchalance. i could go on and on. stuart: when

host: stuart eizenstat, when did you first meet jimmy carter? stuart: in an unusual way. i had worked for a year in the linden johnson white house and then for six months i was hubert humphrey's research director in the company against richard nix nixon. when he lost i went back to atlanta and made a beilein for sanders, a very wealthy, prominent lawyer and i told him i'd like to work for him. high school friend of mine, henry bours said you need to meet this man named jimmy carter who's running for a second time for georgia. but i finally agreed and it was the opposite of the sanders interview, which was a beautiful law office, mahogany, coat and tie. this was in a bare-bones office. he came wearing khakis and work boots. we met on a metal polling table with metal chairs and my initial reaction was what am i doing here? it took me about five minutes to realize that he was the real thing. here was someone from southwest georgia, a farmer but who understood urban issues. he favored mass transit for atlanta. he fared education reform. he was a moderate on civil right and i

stuart: good morning, everyone. if this is back to normal the normal is going to be a very busy year, here's what's happening despite a major snowstorm congress will convene today to certify the election results. no confusion, trump is the 47th president. lake strategy meeting coming trump gets together with house republicans of mar-a-lago. he wants everything included in a monster legislative package bringing together taxes, the border and energy. that is a big lift for the income president that was a very fast start dividing doing best to block trump's policies. his banning oil and gas all around america's coastline. hundreds 5 million acres, environmentalist love it. the voters that want drill baby drill, not so much. the markets to stand out the tech stocks in the dow industrials upside to the tune of all of them on the upside very nicely so. then we have the dow looking for a gain of over 200 points. the nasdaq up to a 31. look at the nasdaq show. rates holding elevated levels, the tenure about 4.6%. the two-ye

stuart. stuart: daft spunt thank you very much.fornia senator adam schiff will not rule out the possibility of investigating trump during his second term. watch. we keep a focus on trying to get for the country but a lot will depending on how he chooses to governor if he violates the law and abuses his office we will viring rowsly push back, stand up to them as we had to do during his first term in office. but my priority is to try to get things done for my california constituents, realizing, though, they also expect me to stand up to him when he attacks the constitution or their freedom. stuart: that's kind of rich isn't it senator masha blackburn republican from tennessee joins me now. i don't have a specific question madam senator but i want you to respond to senator adam schiff. >> and stuart, here is the guy who does not have respect for the rule of law. and who violated his position as chairman of the committee so subpoena phone calls with journalist, records, and when after the top republican on the house intel committee. an

stuart: tough stuff. want you to listen to what governor newsom said about his role in dealing with the fires. roll tape. >> are you passing the blame onto other people. >> how could it be with an independent investigation and we want the adjudication of the fact is not about finger-pointing. >> does the buck stop with you. >> on your governor of california i'm eyes will be the mayor california were all in this together, were all better off when working together to take care of people make sure people are supported, we are empathetic and here not just in the immediacy of the crisis but were here after the crisis. as opposed to creating a crisis in the middle of this by trying to divide people and play political shots. stuart: is not taking any responsibility. you blame gavin newsom for any part of this? >> i'm not trying to point fingers at anybody but we can't control wind. that is nature we get if there is a fire and wind kicks up i get that. but of all the homeowners that i've been talking with that lo

stuart: you sometimes handle cultural issues and you can handle one today. meta ceo mark zuckerberg defended masculinity and corporate culture, watch this. >> it's one thing to say we want to be welcoming and make a good environment for everyone and i think it is another to say that masculinity is bad. i think we swung culturally to that part of the spectrum. having a culture that celebrates the aggression a bit more and has its own merits that are really positive. >> you love this story. people are suspicious about whether mark zuckerberg means it or not. my view let the guy show was if he needs it. he's done good things that meta. here's what i agree on masculinity. right now in america too often the word toxic gets attached to masculinity we don't talk about masculinity as such what do men do in the workplace what behaviors characterize maybe more risk taking indirect and try things out whether then talk about what's wrong with the there's nothing wrong. >> your comments are sexist. >> you going to call me names. >> are not sexist to say one of the matter

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and stuart referred to that. >> yeah.and he defended their record and said talked about the duration of that and how he's changed the presidency and listed off a lot of that, that maybe a lot of people don't remember. because you do talk people talk about the iran hostage crisis or inflation or the other measures that marked his presidency. and he spent that time talking about those moments that that also defined the carter presidency and have still shaped it, because after we heard from from gerald ford's words from his son, we also heard walter mondale as well, and jimmy carter fundamentally reshaped not only walter mondale's vice presidency, but but for jd vance sitting in there, what it's going to be like for him in the next four years, he'll have an office in the west wing. that's because of jimmy carter and that relationship between presidents and vice presidents. speaking of trump and vice president pence, just that entire dynamic, and obama and biden shifted because of jimmy carter. and so i think stuart made a gr

stuart: monday morning, why not it is monday morning, there is six avenue new york. i just started to snow. not very much but were getting some of it. much more snow in d.c. good morning it is 10:00 o'clock eastern street to the money. greenback again a strong open now were back up into 250-point gain for the now 61 up for the s&p, look at that nasdaq. it's close to 300 points, the ten year treasury yield, last time is about 4.6%. the price of oil moving up to 74, $75 a barrel, gas is up as well. as for bitcoin is that $100,000 a coin. that's the markets. >> the end of a failed presidency is not pretty. joe biden has a few days left in office and he's not happy. he's angry. >> more world leaders than anyone of you ever met in your whole life. i know it, what really hurts we talk about immigration. his aide just shot things down. they don't want you to see an angry old man but they cannot stop them from interfering with upcoming a administration biden has blocked almost all oil and gas in u.s. waters under borders all around the coastline 625 million acres, no drillin

pastor stuart, thank you for your decades of service to our community. your legacy is one of love, inclusivity and hope. pastor stuart, we wish you the very best in the next chapter. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: mr. speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: mr. speaker, i rise to recognize the importance of uplifting and empowering our skilled workforce. across the country skills gaps are plaguing employers, and barring workers from filling millions of open job opportunities. this is why today i was proud to introduce the bipartisan skills investment act. this commonsense legislation allows workers at any point in their career to contribute to coverdale lifelong learning accounts, which are tax advantage savings opportunities that will allow americans to pursue new job skills and better career prospec

stuart: there is always that potential.lized relations with china, as tense as they are. we have a middle east that is on fire, but a middle east in which people built on his abraham accords. and i will predict sitting here that within a year or two, the saudis will also normalize. i think many of the things he has done a really lasting. let me give you two that would be one expected. one is he created the entire office of inspector general's to root out fraud, waste and abuse. just this last week the inspector general for justice issued a very important report about what was happening in the trump administration. and the other is a special counsel legislation. that has endured. the form of it has somewhat changed but the notion of having an independent counsel to look at wrongdoing. so all the ethics laws we , d as point out, the eulogyhave by stephen ford from his dad was that both of those men, jerry and jimmy, married up. that is my first piece of advice to any people who would want to be president at some point. if you

stuart: we will see.employment rate is the single most important data point they are following. if that number stays low and they're forecasting will plan now, which i think is a bullish forecast for u.s. equities if that happens. then you can get 10 year yields higher, if that sequencing of data comes out. i think it is the labor market and you need to focus on it. as we played around with payrolls and claims, it's actually the unemployment rate that is the biggest human data point we are going to get. lisa: did we learn over 2024, essentially that this market is insensitive to rate hikes? that basically this is not one that response given the fact that you continue to say ultimately that doesn't matter as much as the raw data. and if the raw data holds up, guess what, it isn't in that restrictive after all? stuart: i think it's the why. the inflation we got on july 11 convinced the market that this inflation number is moving lower. once you took that upside tail out of inflation, then the hikes and cuts

stuart, i'm really excited to talk to you. i'm sorry. it's under these circumstances you've been photographing wildfires for over a decade and currently work with the forest service, documenting some of these events with your camera, browsing some of your shots a little while ago. they're so impactful and they show scenes that really resemble more of an atomic blast site. so you see the charred tree trunks, what's left of houses and cars. i'm curious, what's the message that you're trying to capture in each one of your stills? >> sure. and thank you for having me on. so wildfire is a fact of life in southern california. and unfortunately, we're experiencing one of the most severe, if not the most severe wildfire event of my career of photographing 150 fires over the last decade. and what i'm trying to show folks, is this is happening in our backyards. and i think because of the severity of this event, it's pretty obvious to everybody in the area. but i want people to see what's happening on the front lines, educate themselves about wildf

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stuart: you got it all in there.nk you very much, adam. >>> house speaker mike johnson says it is crucial that he keeps his job on capitol hill. >> we will get this done. we live in very serious times. we cannot afford any palace drama here. there's no time to waste, we have the today unified. ashley: we don't want palace drama, that's for sure. does the new orleans terror attack change the tone and urgency to reelect speaker johnson? we're going to ask congressman daryl ice a saw. plus, new details about the the new orleans' terror suspect's disturbing online9 footprint, claiming he was inspired by isis and had a desire to kill. the fbi just raided the suspect's home in houston. we'll have that next. ♪ ♪ advil liqui-gels are faster and stronger than tylenol rapid release gels. ♪ also from advil, advil targeted relief, the only topical with 4 powerful pain fighting ingredients that start working on contact and lasts up to 8 hours. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy -

stuart clausen is the zoo's aquatics director.n. 0ur teams are actually been here since yesterday afternoon, riding out the storm and taking care of ouranimals, making sure the lights stay on and the heat stay on. 0ur teams are wrapping up their routines for the afternoon right now, and currently our weather is pretty severe. as you heard in that previous report, we are experiencing some white out conditions. a lot of our local highways and roads are closed because of those conditions. so we are looking at probably hunkering down and staying safe and making sure our animals are taken care of for the night. and of course, there are the animals that will be hating the cold weather, but others would love it. so just tell us, how are the animals at the zoo coping with what's happening? sure. as you said, we have a wide range of animals here in our collection. everything from elephants to giraffes, which of course are inside in this sort of weather. we have buildings specially constructed for them to make sure that they're warm and com

. >> you know, tim naftali to you, ambassador stuart eizenstat was with me for just a moment. he'll be back later in the show, and he recently just sunday wrote a piece for the washington post and said that the narrative about the carter presidency and service is wrong is that he was redeemed in his post-presidency, and it's his time in office was a failure, he says. that's that's a wrong accounting of his service. what's your take? >> ambassador eizenstat has written some very important books about jimmy carter and he led really carter's domestic program, domestic programs. so he understands sort of the unexamined presidency of carter. the the fact that carter was beginning the process of making our economy more efficient, for example, um, something that was unusual for a democrat. but but jimmy carter was an unusual democrat, and i think it's really important as we watch this, uh, funeral, uh, begin this whole process. of moving the late president up to atlanta that we think about how his life encapsulated a very significant set of changes in our country. jimmy carter was bo

my name is stuart landed and i'm the director of community engagement here at the cinema not be your host and moderator for this afternoon's program. thank you all forfo joining us. we are so happy that we are here and we hope you enjoyed the events with your timesse best-selling author abbott kahler at the 12th annual harrisburg book festival. some quick housekeeping notes before we get started. first of all thank you so much for making your way here to the cinema. for k those who are in the knowa couple of months ago we took some water in and had to take that moment to not only do some renovations for the flooding damage also to redo the lobbies of this coming friday october 18 we will have our grand reopening isn't that exciting >> a lobby with actual all the actual time.e. it's been a journey and we are appreciative of the hard work that the contractors are doing and our employees are doing to get ready for that big grand opening. for those whoho are members you will get free movies on friday to celebrate. are you those of you who aren't members as well and we have live music in

stuart eizenstat you were jimmy carter's chief white house domestic policy adviser. did you really anticipate that what we're about to see today, tomorrow, and during the course of this week, this enormous outpouring of love and appreciation for jimmy carter would, in fact, take place? >> i did, i did. i first met him in 1969. i had finished a year in the johnson white house and six months on hubert humphrey's presidential campaign came back to atlanta. and then a high school friend of mine, henry bauer, said, you've got to see this state senator. he's going to be the next governor, i think. and i had never heard of him. i went, in fact, to see the former governor, carl sanders, who was the odds on favorite. i went to see governor carter, a then state senator. carter, and he came into a plain room with a folding table and two metal chairs and work boots and khakis. and i said to myself, what am i getting into? why? why do i want to work for this guy? but it didn't take very long, wolf, to see that he understood urban problems as a south georgia person, he favored mas

ambassador to the european union stuart eizenstat.e also served as chief, white house domestic policy adviser to president jimmy carter. mr. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us this morning, casey. >> thank you for having me. >> i'd like to start just with your reflections. there about the former president. and i was actually struck by that one person in plains, georgia, who talked about the integrity of former president carter. and and, you know, you wrote about this. and let me just read a little bit of what you said, quote, conventional wisdom holds that jimmy carter was a failure as president, redeemed only by his philanthropy and efforts to promote democracy in his post-presidential years. this is palpably wrong. why is carter's presidency remembered so harshly? it is due in part to his unorthodox approach to the presidency. he believed he could park politics at the oval office door and procure. another term by concentrating on doing the right thing, forgetting that a president must be a politician in chief. talk a littl

. >> former fbi agent stuart caplan and steve friend join me now.tuart i mean, i listened to john kennedy there, and he says, after we get to the bottom of this, they need to tell the american people the truth. i mean, that's very curious. so there's something we don't know, that it seems like the senator wants us to know. stuart. >> well, those were very sobering and telling remarks. >> and keep in mind, i think it was done with the intent, quite frankly, the press conference that was held at 2 p.m. today really almost was like a circus like atmosphere. i question where director christopher wray is or where the deputy director, paula bait is, or at least the assistant director is. if, in fact the fbi is the lead law enforcement agency working this case, they need to have the top echelon front and center. you don't pass off a national security investigation with the gravity that is played out at 315 this morning to a special agent in charge of a local field office. and i think that fueled, quite frankly, senator kennedy's frustration. but i also, to

also, stuart eisenstat struck me. it was a beautiful eulogy. for this and wrote a book about this and i agree. i should have mentioned him as well. i thought he was excellent. i don't think there were any mistakes and certainly biden's message was aimed at a certain person in the room and i thought that was fine but that certain person in the room stuck through the whole service and it was interesting to see him talk to obama and to see others move away from him. >> donald trump and barack obama talked very jovially with exchanges. there was no more than a handshake between mike pence and donald trump. >> i got a kiss from mike pence. he is an old friend and we served five terms together in the white house. absolutely. the message shouldn't be missed, not just the pomp and circumstance but the fact our country transitions power and honors presidents who came before. it wouldn't have been done better than it was done today. >> speaking of that, the music. jonathan alter is with us and wrote the carter biography pointed out that not only is every

stuartook, obviously the agenda is front and center the markets are rallying around the idea that the tariff situation will be as bad as some of them expected. also the idea that mike johnson is pushing tax cuts all the way to the top of the year. we'll see if they can get it done one package without breaking news yesterday. >> i think that's right and i think they're cheering the fact that mike johnson is very much on board with the trump agenda. meanwhile joe biden is doing everything possible to make half the country if not more than half the country despise him. the moves that he's making honoring george soros taking more land off drilling possibly, what is he think he's doing read it's offensive, january 20th cannot come soon enough. >> it's two weeks from today. president trump will start his second term fast and we were ready seeing what is taking place ahead of it. thank you, good show, liz peek, rebecca walser. "varney & company" is up next. stuart

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thanks, stuart. not taking that call. but let's go to calls from our viewers. kimberly is in westchester, new york. good evening. i have a couple of questions, if i may, for the state dinner is there a particular protocol for when it's white tie as opposed to black tie? and the second part of the question is we may have for the first time a first gentleman. well his role will be analogous to the traditional role of the first lady. thank you. well, it's the decision of the president and the first lady in consultation with the state department and the ambassador, the visiting head of state, as to what the attire would be. my recollection is the last time there was a white tie dinner, which is the most formal would have been when george w bush and laura bush hosted elizabeth. usually is a black tie dinner for a state for a state dinner. first gentleman, you know what's going to be interesting to see if that happens. i don't know. i don't know if he would take on the traditional functions that we understand the first lady would have or if someone else on the presid

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now this is the honorable stuart eizenstat, former white house domestic affairs adviser. as john karl pointed out a short time ago, so many of jimmy carter's friends and so many of the people he served with and who he chose to serve in his cabinet to fill out his white house, he survived them by many, many years, though there are still members, obviously, of that era that time. and we will hear now from the honorable stuart eizenstat. >> jimmy carter was as close to being a renaissance man. as any president entering the oval office in modern times. he was skilled in an astonishing array of activities farmer, businessman, nuclear engineer, naval submarine officer, woodworker, painter, fly fisherman, music lover, poet, author, sunday school teacher, creator of the carter center and yes, loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather and nobel peace prize winner. behind that toothy smile was a man of steel determination, discipline and self-confidence. in 1974, when he was governor of georgia, has suggested that if he ran for president and won a few southern prima

stuart: the crus of tariffs and can't have a strong dollar and have it be effective. you're long in dollar and dollar holds or goes higher? >> we're long dollar and think it goes higher and next 12 month asks one thing back to constitutional per spect and i have most of the clients are long on the dollar and we do expect increase and we'd have to see sort of all the tariffs that were in this scenario. it's a meaningful lineup. charles: expensive and magnificent seven trading and by the same token, they're also earning more money and they've got more free cash flow and argument to be long from that position and then going to the exact other end of the table and there's that's been really, really hot and finding opportunities right now. >> taking sectors and locations aside, globally looking for those type of companies that have sales tied to dollar assets, whether they're listed here or somewhere else, that might help with some of the concentration resident and can thinking about alternatives and whole spectrum and some things on the previous slide like commodities for

and then stuart simonton, you mentioned from missouri. they resigned from the committee in protest in 1954 because of the behavior of mccarthy in the way he treated. two other familiar names were part of this investigation. royko, cohn and robert f kennedy. well, what were their roles? well, roy cohn was hired in 1953 when senator mccarthy took over the permanent subcommittee on investigations. he hired cohn to be the chief counsel. cohn was relatively well-known because he had been on the team that prosecuted ethel and julius rosenberg, who were spies, who were convicted of spying and actually executed. so he had a reputation as a very aggressive investigator, a prosecutor. it later became clear that he was very unethical and very abrasive and unethical, but he was the kind of person that would really be an attack dog in the kind of lawyer that that mccarthy needed. and robert kennedy. robert kennedy was also hired to be assistant counsel on the permanent subcommittee at about the same time in 1953. of course, he was a scion of the massa

stuart according to the american farm bureau 1.9 million farms and ranches and that u.s. at 95% of them are family operated. farmers and ranchers equal about 2% of the u.s. population. farmers and ranchers receive about 15 cents on each food dollar spent. ninety-five% still family operated. >> guest: that's absolutely write the broader context on thoseht numbers we once had 6.5 million farms in this country that was the height and has gone down to less than 2 million. that's about 70% the loss of for the past century price spoke with the farm bureau for the book as well as critics of modern apartment to talk to people on all angles. the cost of that massive disappearance the nearly 2 million farms left nutley or 90% of the family on but 88% are small farms people are shocked to hear that. everyone envision a great big farm that's replaced farms of the past. here's a rails of his nearly 2 million farms most are small farms most are not making a full-time a living. the much larger firms peruse the bulk of our food. smaller farms 88% are small they working two -- three they'