stuart varney. stuart: i'll take it. the president is back, we are back and the summer begins.ia and the left, could it be? they're still going on about russia or jared kushner's contacts, and they're still on europe, and the young presidency, and speculating about indicting the president of the united states. as you get back to work today. what are you concerned about? well, let's start with your money. here is a positive. the dow closed last week at 21,080.

varney? stuart the socialist dictatorship of venezuela. whether you make a profit on it or not is irrelevant. >> so what what are you suggesting, there should be a statute against it, or it violates the moral law because you disapprove of the government? stuart: i want you to pass some moral judgment on those who support socialist dictatorships. >> my moral judgment is if you can spend $800 million in order to get $2.3 billion, you're pretty smart. stuart: the whole thing is predicated on those bonds being paid off at face value -- >> now we'll get to the paul singer paradigm and the problems he had with argentina which tried to do the same thing to him. he didn't have to seize property, but he was within days before he got -- you're going to see crude oil tankers being seized by u.s. marshals if these guys don't pay the bonds. so the opposition or the government can make all the claims it wants, it's going to have to pay. as long as it has assets, the american courts will reach them. stuart: by the

stuart varney says it's time to admit obamacare has officially collapsed. watch this. >> this thing was structurally flawed from the get-go. they need for more young people, healthy people to enroll in these exchanges and fewer older sicker people. that's not what they got. they got it the other way aroun around. now costs are spiraling upwards. the bottom line here is obamacare is dead. this is the final phase of the death spiral. it's done. stick a fork in this thing because it's finished. the >> sandra: chris coons blames the trump administration for obama cares current woes. watch. >> i think the uncertainty about the direction that the trump administration is going in terms of whether they will continue to enforce provisions for portable care act makes it unstable in the marketplace. unfortunately, we are in a game of chicken right now. >> meghan: that's so dumb. >> harris: that's not right. >> sandra: will start us off? >> meghan: is collapsing. i couldn't have put it better myself, stuart varney saying young people opted into it. it's collapsing into

is that what stuart varney is going to talk about the host of a "varney & company" is back a pleasure. >> good morning, sir. >> i am looking that the report there from walmart just a little bit under the surface, you will see that same-store sales i believe up 1.4% okay got it. look deeper, and online sales were up 63%. i think this is the major story that is not been reported as much as it should be and that is the decline of bricks and mortar and gain of only selling you know the headlines dominated by political scandal that dominated by wrote a sell-off yesterday but underneath the surface this story about decline of bricks-and-mortar retailers especially that creation he have ghost malls that is a lifestyle story, that is an economic story, and something every single one of us sees, and feels. i think it is going under reported when i see that walmart's online selling up 63% writing on wall the wall of ghost malls i don't know where it is going from here i have never seen an industry going to use emotive word trash like bricks-and-mortar is crashing right now. >> you know walmart

here to weigh in from the host of varney and company the host stuart varney.ing what they mean. >> no. this has nothing to do with workers or workers rights or trade unions. nothing to do with that at all. this is the violent left taking to the streets to oppose everything that donald trump, president trump wants to do. this is the violent anti-trump left. they've taken to the street. that's what they are doing. ainsley: is it effecting the markets. >> the stock market, no. not at all. zero, no. absolutely nothing. no impact on your money whatsoever. period. steve: may first, traditionally may day, that's historically been the opportunity, also known as international workers day. but you are saying this year international workers day has been hijacked by the anti-trump he is not my president people. >> totally so. steve: who is funding this group. >> i don't know. steve: clearly organized. >> i can't point the finger to this group or that group or individual. you can't do that all can you say is that the anti-trump left has come together staging violent street

let's get to "varney & company" and stuart. over to you. stuart: thank you very much indeed.he reverses president obama. and a gusher of money is flowing america's way. good monday morning, everyone. our president is now in israel and he received a warm welcome. that's a reversal of president obama's very chilly relationship. president trump arrived there directly from saudi arabia. that's not been done before. the mideast trip builds an alliance, the saudis, america and very quietly, israel, all against iran. the president

"varney & company" begins right now. here is stuart. stuart: thanks so much, maria.be back. my thanks to my colleague, charles payne, for all his hard work over the past week. here we go. comey, comey, comey everywhere. despite the nonstop, over the top coverage, investors have barely blinked. we'll get to the money angle in just a moment. first of all, just look at this, please. new york times, trump is insulting our intelligence. and, again, new york times, sense of crisis deepens as trump defends fbi firing. how about the washington post? ouster lengthens the shadow

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kevin kelly, "varney & company," stuart, take it away. stuart: good morning, everyone.etail ice age. we've been covering it. now, it's in deep freeze mode. the big name stores are in deepening trouble. the last two days, disaster for macy's. its sales are falling. same store with nordstrom, same-store sales are down. in a half hour you'll see j.c. penney stock take another big tumble. this is dramatic. not only are household names disappearing from the retail landscape, the shopping malls are emptying, fewer foot traffic, fewer anchor stores and ghost malls are popping up all over. like it o

and stuart varney, laura ingram, once upon a time ran the big wrestling company linda mcmahon.to challenge, he would like her job. she wants to keep her job. a busy three hours, from right now. >> stay with us. [fbi agent] you're a brave man, mr. stevens. your testimony will save lives. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible. [hero] i'll take my chances. ♪ it is a new dawn ♪ a new day ♪ and i am feeling ♪ blue ♪ >> that is a beautiful shot. clayton: and a beautiful song. heather: as the sun rises on the nation's capital happening today just hours from now united and american airlines in the hot seat on capitol hill over passenger confrontation. clayton: the effort to keep passengers safe in the skies. >> reporter: two hearings on capitol hill to address the issue, customer service at the nation's airline, house transportation infrastructure committee, united ceo oscar nunez and representatives from alaska, american and southwest airlines, several lawmakers propose legislation that would bar airlin

steve: stuart varney the host of varney and company is here live.t to ours so he stopped by. these two men are very different when it comes to politics. i know when you talk about the leader of the catholic church you don't normally think about politics but this particular pontiff is a little political. >> it's day and night. our president, president trump is a capitalist, he is brash, he revels in his wealth. pope francis is the other side of the coin. he is, i'm going to say a moralist and a collectivist. president trump says i am very irish. i like my money. is he brash. is he a capitalist. he believes that capitalism delivers prosperity and frankly i'm on his side in that argument. pope francis does the other way. is he from the are argentinian. steve: is he from the street. >> he has the argentinian tradition whereas a very strong state in charge of redistributing the wealth that the crony crony capitalism and argentinian government in the past has not stolen already. day and night. i think capitalism delivers prosperity. the pope believes that

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here to react is host of "varney & company," his name is stuart varney.o be the day when the socialists took the day off and work prettied through the streets in favor of socialism. it's a big deal in europe. here, i think the socialist theme has been hijacked by identity politics of the theft. you look at the banners today, it's all about immigrant rights, muslim rights, trans rights. it's identity politics planting socialism. which i guess is a good thing, but this is what's happening. steve: back in 2006, we were on the couch, and we showed may day 2016, and it was all people pushing immigration reform. what it's about is people who were in this country illegally should have the same civil rights as an american citizen. >> . >> this year, some private enterprise companies are going to give their employees the day off without any punishment or anything like that to attend these kinds of rallies in favor of immigrants. not being separated from their families. facebook, for example. it says "if any of our employees employees want to take the day off and p

stuart varney keep coming back. they were for jim comey before they were against him. now they're for him again. you can track all these flip-flops from the democrats who got hillary clinton's campaign manager flip flopping all over the place on fbi director james comby. hear what he is saying now after this. >> we didn't cause this problem. james comey opened this door. at crowne plaza we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. 'a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. which is what we do. crowne plaza. we're all business, mostly. ♪ here comes the fun with sea-doo. starting at just $5,299 and get 0 percent financing. visit sea-doo.com today. you know how painful heartburn can be. for fast-acting, long-lasting relief, try doctor recommended gaviscon. it quickly neutralizes stomach acid and helps keep acid down for hours. relieve heartburn with fast- acting, long-lasting gaviscon. . >> the fbi has been frustratingly noncommittal, and they don't say a thing when it comes to donald trump and investigations against

sit-down with maria bartiromo, former reagan campaign manager ed rollins host of "varney & company" stuart varneyat is on mr. varney's mind but you will find out later this hour. president trump set to speak with vladimir putin this afternoon the first phone conversation since russia denounced u.s. military strike, against syria last month. blake burman live at the white house, with the very latest good morning from a sunny d.c. reporter: it is beautiful 75 here i think no complaints. hi dagen national security official this morning on beautiful d.c. morning telling me that it was indeed vladimir putin who has initiated this phone call that is what i am told the phone call will take place, 12:30 this afternoon between president trump, and vladimir putin, as you know these two have had minimal communications since the president took office a little more than 100 days ago. democrats on both sides from both countries, have said that the relationship between u.s. and russia are now at all-time low or at least near that, after the chemical weapons attack in sir bashar al-assad government you know how

steve: let's talk to stuart varney. he's the host of "varney & company" over on fox business.president. buried is some very good news on the economy. you just mentioned that the claims for unemployment benefits at the lowest in nearly 30 years. that's very good. that means that the firing trend has come to an end. second point, profits are very strong. strongest in six years. okay. ignore what the left is telling you profits are bad. profits actually are very, very good. steve: wait, who's saying profits are bad? brian: ainsley. ainsley: i hate profits. >> the left does not like profitability. profits are bad. steve: why? >> because, oh, they're putting profits before people. that's the line. steve: oh, i get you. >> if you've got strong profits, you've got the money to invest, et cetera, et cetera. now, get this one. hold on a second, brian. hold on. at starting salaries for this year's college congratulates, the highest in decades averaging $49,785 that's why the number of first time homebuyers is double the number of first time renters. because now they've got some more mon

stuart has been out for a few days. more want to know where he is. this from colleen. where is varney? did i miss him on vacation. d stuart leave the show or out for a few days. i haven't seen him on for days. bring him back, exclamation points. the last one from joe, mr. varney, have you been fired? [laughter] liz, we have to reassure the viewers, stuart has not been fired. liz: he is out kitesurfing off of cape cod like john considerry. ashley: my theory, he was with his family, his daughter got married, through the big wedding. i think he is recovering from getting the catering bill. charles: speaking engagements. maybe that is where he is. liz: talking somewhere with his mcdonald's buck 50 coffee. charles: you remember how he apparently quit cnn? i don't think the audience will worry. if he ever leaves -- liz: he will die in the chair. charles: three hours a day, every single chair, you must love it. he is a beast. he loves the news an loves his audience. thank you all very much. stuart varney will be back very soon. so new touch screens... and biometrics. in 574 branches. all done by... yesterday. ♪ ♪ banks a

i'm charles payne in for stuart varney.e, it's back to the drawing board. this hour we have a senator, well, he says he wants to build a path to so-call kimmel test and sarah clayburn, the woman was killed in san bernardino attack in 2015, victim's families are suing the social media companies on your screen saying they allowed terror groups allow to spread propaganda. sarah's father will be with us as well. exclusive. new social network where people can perform music together. 54million up round led by company. jack-packed hour, the third hour of varney & company starts right now. >> i think we knew that macron was going to win. i don't think the french were ready for brexit in the way that we were last year in our country . charles: you heard frit the man himself nigel farage. we are all over that. first, your money. let's check on the big board. dow jones industrial average down 10 points right now. we have been down as much as 35, every time it peeks into the green it pulls back. the euro is sitting a 6-month high after

german defense, here talking about german uas he relations horticulture of "varney & company" stuart varneytay with us on that, and we go back to that top story axios reporting that president trump made the decision, to withdraw from the paris climate accord fox business network blake burman is at the white house with the very latest blake, good morning to you. reporter: maria, good morning to you as well very important off the top is to say web site objectionios solely reporting this morning the president decided to withdraw the u.s. from paris climate agreement, yesterday, during the white house press briefing the press secretary sean spicer stoke about this topic saying at this point a decision would be coming soon he said, that the president was in consultation spoke being about this with g-7 leaders when in sicily, over the weekend, and spicer said the president quote his ultimatumly wants a fair deal for the american people. as it relates to this paris climate agreement, we have reached out to the white house this morning, and so far no official response from the white house. to this

it's a stuart varney phone, it's not complicated. charles: that's when nokia ruled the world.tock in europe and probably held that brand too long. ashley: retro is cool. charles: retro is a cool. you never expect to hear this from spike lee. very critical of hillary clinton at the cannes film festival and called her entitled and you can't win a presidency if you're chilling in martha's vineyard. great point. more varney after this. id... ...raised two rough and tumble boys... ...and kept my town moving. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and he prescribed lyrica. nerve damage from diabetes causes diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is fda approved to treat this pain. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling or blurry vision. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of h

stuart: stuart varney question, how much. >> about $125,000. h every penny, i might add. >> absolutely. stuart: now i've never actually seen a heisman trophy and i'm not going to ask to hold it up. that's extraordinarily heavy. >> yes. stuart: whose is it? >> paul hornung when he wan it for this. stuart: why have i not seen this more? >> they're the most sought after, more than the world series, and they rarely go for sale and recently the athletic club, heisman award, stop and made the athletes sign a contract like the oscars do, if you win this you're not allowed to sell it. paul hornung was an exception and sold it. >> how much. >> the estimate and comes with a signed letter from paul hornung i am self. go to golden auctions.com and place a bid. it's a live event 7 p.m. in midtown manhattan. stuart: i want to squeeze this in. do people buy them to put it into the museum? is it for museums or wealthy individuals? >> it's wealthy individuals who have their own museums. build man caves ap and display the items. stuart: ken golden, everyone, i th

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stuart: did him a lot of good. everyone, we'll be back with a whole lot more on "varney & company" right after this. r, president trump is about to meet israel's benjamin netanyahu. watch the optics between them when they get together. it will be very, very different from the almost open hostility that was so obvious when president obama met israel's leader. earlier the saudis rolled out a very long and very welcoming red carpet for our president. mr. trump went to riyadh to renew another township that had chilled in the last -- friendship that had chilled in the last eight years. at the heart, is a dramatic reversal of america's mideast policy. therethat's what our president w pushing for. he's uniting sunni muslims against shia iran with the quiet approval and assistance of israel. that's like day and night from the obama years, isn't it? we should be paying attention to this. our future is not about comey or the russians, and it's certainly not about impeachment. it's about's, security and, yes -- it's about peace, security and, yes, prosperity at home. the president faces an unrelenting barrage o

"varney & company" begins now. stuart, take it away, my friend. stuart: i shall, my friend.stage right now. good friday morning, everyone. goodbye d.c., the president of the united states leaves downtown for the green pastures of diplomacy and big time deal make and i mean big time. president trump takes off to a nine day, five city trip in europe. he left a parting shot, all investigations are into a hunt. and now he's off to the saudis, they like this president.

former goldman sachs senior partner, peter keirnen, guy i like to say makes stuart varney looks good.u. neil: i always love to hear your sweeping sense of history. one of the things that comes up, these are going to be comprehensive tax cuts the likes we haven't seen since reagan but by definition they can't be because of narrow margins we're looking at f they can't be, you hear talk about hike in the gas tax or ways to pay for this, without import tax, isn't every attempt like that going to mitigate their effect? >> it does. what you have to do is let the stimulus actually take place. what is going on here. we relied on the fed for stimulus. now we're looking for fiscal stimulus. tough let that happen. we're very hung up on history as you say. i was pretty involved in watching the tax reform act of 1986. that ancient history. neil: don't date yourself. >> we haven't raised the gas tax since 1993. these are old-time religion cures that won't work. we need to stimulate the economy. if you stimulate the economy with a tax cut, consumers, who have not been spending, didn't buy cars, this

varney & company." charles payne is in for stuart. charles: thank you, maria.ories, 211,000 jobs added in april, that's a very solid report. the real unemployment rate drops to its lowest point in almost a decade. gary cohn from the president's economic team will join us in studio later this hour. that's a first on fox business interview. meanwhile, house republicans gave president trump a huge win on health care, but democrats taunted them. wait until you hear what they had to say after the vote. another incident on a plane caught on video. this time a family forced to get off an overbooked plane

charles: varney will be back just in time for stuart. thanks a lot, tracy.his out, china proposing a 1.4 trillion dollar infrastructure plan, building roads, rails, africa and asia, all of these places as the trump administration is kicking off their infrastructure plan. and former deputy director for the trump campaign, david, we're struggling in this country to figure out how to patch up roads. in the meantime, china is cutting through jungles in sir larena to build this road in sri lanka. they think long-term. in this country we have to do budgets by the week, it seems, but look, president trump got elect elected, as part of his campaign promise to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. barack obama ignored it for eight years, it was ignored for the eight or ten years before that. so, we're 20 years behind where we need to be. and i think that president trump has a laser-like focus when it comes to infrastructure and planning. look, we need new roads, we need new bridges, we need to have our rail system rebuilt. we need to have air traffic control system t

varney & company" begins now. here is charles payne. >> good morning, i'm charles payne in for stuart. we've got the tech stocks and health care in the house today. facebook has two billion people using it every month and revenues soaring, and it may be hit ago wall as far as the number of ads it can run and what does it mean for the wild ride for the stock you're looking at right now. tim cook says that apple will invest a billion dollars and what he calls advanced manufacturing in america, but what that means, he probably won't build factories or make iphones in the country. in politics, the house will vote on the g.o.p. health care plan. it will be a partisan vote and it's just the first step in a lengthy process to ultimately make this bill a law, but we begin with late night politics. steven colbert he doesn't completely back walk or walk back from his vulgar anti-trump monologue. "varney & company" begins. ♪ >> folks, if you saw my monologue on monday, you know that i was a little upset with donald trump for insulting a friend of mine. so, at the end of that monologue, i had a fe

stuart varney will be back tomorrow. tarts right now. >> when i heard about it i found it hard to believe, comey, thought had some degree of integrity would do this. >> i thought he made a mistake on this he clearly has a double standard. if you're not in it for a while, you can't take the heat. i think he just couldn't take the heat from the republicans. charles: more on democrats response to comey's firing. let's check on the big board, dow jones industrial average off 54 points. this is one of the big reasons why. shares of disney, the biggest loser on the dow right now, of course weighing in, weighing it down. speaking of losers, look at yelp. they changed the symbol to yikes! weaker forecast. the stock is getting hammered. on the other side, remember alibaba kind of looked like it lost its way a little bit? the stock hit a all-time high. that is the chinese version of amazon. things not so hot at wendy's, profits did beat, the stock was up now. it was done a little bit. maybe because it's a 15-dollar stock wall stree

stuart: the ratings are good. >> god love you, mr. varney. ibertarian when he was my friend. stuart: quiet on the set. president trump vote with pope francis on the third leg of trip, shook hands before heading into the pope's private study. father francis gave the president a small statute of olive tree and told him it symbol sideses peace and president gave him a book of letters from martin luther king, jr. the price tag nearly $700,000. i want that music and i'm going to play it on this program because we paid for it. [laughter] stuart: nike signs a record-breaking shoe deal with new york giants wide receiver odell beckham, jr., biggest in history. we have one of beckham's teammates. thank you. he's with us. by the way. look at this. fleet week, we will be back nicole: nicole petallides with your fox business brief. we are keeping a close eye on google. google's parent alphabet. we are watching google hitting a record all-time high today of 976.49, stocks up more than 30% in the last 52 weeks. we are also watching some big news on google an

more varney after this. stuartming a generation of home buyers, tracy carrasco has the story which fascinating me, go. >> according to some data from the census bureau they are saying that 854,000 new owner households in the first three months of the year, that's more than doubled, 365,000 new renter households. stuart: whoa. look at that. i've got it on the screen. first quarter of this year. 854,000 first-time newly formed high schools -- new homeowners. stuart: 365 were renters. >> builders are making it more appealing for millennials to buying homes. they are designing homes with millennials in mind, they have the features they are looking for, if a new home wants to rent out another room, they've got separate bedrooms, bathrooms to help supplement the stuart: i thought the last few years it was renting, renting made sense apparently but now it's not? >> no, millennials are making more money, so they want to invest. home is a good place to invest. stuart: ladies and gentlemen, i bring you good news. that's a po

"varney & company" begins right now and here is charles payne in for stuart. take it away. >> good morning, thank you very much, maria. i'm charles payne in for stuart and you've got a lot, apple cash pile makes them a very powerful company. and think about all the things you could buy with that money. nevertheless, the stock is reacting to the news that the iphone missed last quarter. hillary clinton, let's face it, she can't get over it. blaming the fbi director, wikileaks, everyone for her election loss and president trump and kellyanne conway responding on twitter. wait until you hear what they have to say. and director mick mulvaney blasting the democrats for taking a victory lap and he says the shutdown in september is still a possibility. >> and richard branson says bringing back coal is the worst idea he's ever heard. we'll ask about that. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ . >> stop! oh, (bleep). guy is crazy. >> that's right, that's not world heavy weight boxing, it's better. two passengers aboard a los angeles-bound nippon flight, the fighting

owner of the falcons home depot cofounder joining us us as well plus host of "varney & company" stuart varney stay with us as we kick it off with top story, two top members of the trump administration, budget director mulvaney treasury seek mnuchin ahead at capitol hill to testify about the president's budget o proposal four trillion-dollar spending plan criticized by democrats and some republicans, for unrealistic cuts to social and examine domestic programs paul ryan said time to take a look at where the money is going. >> we should measure whether there is successful or not are we actually getting the outcomes we want or are we measuring success in washington based on how much money we throw at programs by automatic spending increases i don't think should mush success that way measure success based on outcomes. >> calling for 2.6 billion dollars, for a wall along the u.s.-mexico border joining us right now chairman of the house aways means committee texas congressman ken brady good to see you thanks for joining news good morning. >> walk us through, the most important parts of this budget,

here to weigh in is stuart varney. is she right? >> good morning, all. right. americans want news that is a part of their everyday lives. they want news about their jobs, their money, their mortgage, their careers. that's what they want to hear about. instead, they are hearing about as the lady said, russia, russia, russia. what possible relevance to everyone's every day life is whether jared kushner met with this person or that person. what relevance are all these leaks anonymous leaks apparently coordinated with the media to undermine our presidency? that's what we're returning to work to today. it's tuesday morning. back after a long hollywood weekend. the summer is about to begin. what have we got? oh russia, russia, russia. get out of here. brian: just a report now on another network that they have some unverified sources that tell them that there is some financial leverage over the trump administration and they also include in that story that they -- this could be news coming out of russia put out to deceive. what are you wasting our time for? >> i

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stuart: it says on the prompter we're not done yet. [laughter] more "varney" after this. e down 87 -- 140 favorite story of the day. ashley: favorite but retire being public employees getting credit for unused sick days. a college professor in massachusetts, one-time payment 260,000 for 1250 unused six days. stuart: public employees? ashley: yeah. stuart: don't use the sick day, you get paid for it when you retire. liz: nearly 2 billion in the state jersey alone. stuart: i'm out raged. on that note, here is neil cavuto. neil: i have never taken a sick day in my life, give or take a few months. good to see you back. thank you very much. as you've been saying, pounding these last three years, this distraction, whatever you want to call it over the comey matter is having an effect on stocks here. only good news not as bad after an effect. interest rates have been backing up. we got surprisingly jobless claims report, lowest level in close to three decades. the fact that wholesale

here's white house national economic council chairman gary cohn on "varney & co.". here's stuart. >> starting down the path of taxes and unlike health care, we are out talking to all the groups that are going to be interested in our tax plan. by the time we get a bill drafted, we're going to know everyone's issues and we think it's substantially easier to get it through congress. >> going to be so easy. will the gop be on the same page when they finally come up with a bill? all right, so jehmu, here's one thing republicans and democrats agree on. they love spending money! whether it's on entitlements or the military, tomahawk missiles or medicare, they love jamming a big full budget, but the problem is tax cuts are great but you have to cut spending and no one is willing to do that. >> look, the health care bill we just talked about did not affect health policies, this was initial part of the tax reform by giving a 20% cut or significant cuts to the 20% wealthiest people in this country. they've taken a very big step towards tax reform. they are taking away $880 billion in medica

dagen: "varney & company" starts right now. stuart: yes, it does, thank you, dagen. good stuff. the president caves on government spending. the democrats exploit a divided republican party and claim a big win. good morning, everyone, the republican party cannot agree on health care, government spending or taxes and to get anything done, they have to give in to democrats. cornyn says, we can't pass anything. it does not include anything with the wall, but keeps money flowing to sanctuary cities. that's why the president it talking about gas tax to pay for cuts. and continuing subsidies for obamacare and keep the government open plan includes new domestic spending, all of this contrary to president trump's election promises and the republican party is still divided on taxes and they're still several votes short of agreement on health care reform. despite winning the house, the senate, the white house, the republicans cannot get anything done. that's the current state of politics. on the money front, it's all about these guys, the fabulous five. they are sucking in all the money. t

ashley: another varney in the building? stuart: you know what that means, "fox & friends"? ashley: getting very early. stuart: call time is 4:00 a.m happy birthday, angie. you will love it at fox. neil cavuto. seriously, it is yours. neil: does she get up every morning and go ka-ching, ka-ching? stuart: what? where did that come from, cavuto? neil: she is very lucky young lady. her dad is international anchor star. if she plays her cards right, stays on her good side, might not have to worry about working ever, right? stuart: no, that is not the case. let's scotch that right from the beginning here. neil: you've been cheap throughout the poor girl's life. stuart: absolutely. neil: i wanted to confirm all that. thank you, stuart. we have a lot going on here. the president meeting with the prime minister of belgium. elsewhere police investigating a network now of suspects behind that attack at a ariana grande concert a couple nights ago. connell mcshane with the late of the. reporter: terror threat in the uk doesn't get higher than it is right now. the investigation into the

. >> "varney & company" starts now, and here is charles payne. >> i'm in for stuart. we begin as we often do with the tech juggernauts, amazon, google, apple, facebook are at or near all-time highs, some are asking is this 2001 all over again? i'm comparing to 1973, widow's on orphan stocks, you bought some stocks and held forever. nifty fifty and now they're consumer product stocks, and travel, and a number of industries, the only competition is from each other and investigators are giving them the benefit of the doubt for now. as far as the comparisons to 1973, the nifty fifty stocks, when i say when it comes to the tech stocks, it's not even 1970. "varney & company," we've got a lot to do. we're about to begin. ♪ . >> when you look at paris, you know, what's right about this issue is making sure that we have international discussion with respect to how good a job we're doing across the globe with respecting our co footprint. and what is wrong is a bad business deal for this company. it causes a contraction to our economy when we're leading already in reducing our c

"varney & company" begins now, charles payne. >> stuart will be back after the holiday. we've got lot for you and only three hours to cover it all. first, talk about a bounceback. the stock market has recovered all of its losses from a week ago today and then some. we've got a new all-time high for the dow, within our reach, we probly hit witn the first hour of trading. take a look at retailers, no ice age on these guys, they're bucking the trends and higher sales. before the open you see big, big names are going to be up huge. doesn't that mean they beat expectations or is there something really going on there? meantime, president trump meeting with nato leaders and open borders and terror, issues bigger than before. and also meeting with angela merkel. they're going to make a statement in the next hour. also the meeting takes added importance, of course, as we learn more about the u.k. terror bombers, three members of his family are now under arrest, including his father and two brothers and the bomber was an isis fighter in libya. it's a very busy day in the world and

"varney & company" begins now, charles payne. >> stuart will be back after the holiday. market has recovered all of its losses from a week ago today and then some. we've got a new all-time high for the dow, within our reach, we probly hit witn the first hour of trading. take a look at retailers, no ice age on these guys, they're bucking the trends and higher sales. before the open you see big, big names are going to be up huge. doesn't that mean they beat expectations or is there something really going on there? meantime, president trump

stuart: how about 18,000 terror suspects in tiny belgium. how about that? brian, you're pressed for time. thank you very much for your time being with us on "varneyny." we'll see you again soon. >> go get them, stuart. stuart: will do. 21 points higher for the dow jones industrial average despite what you see on the left-hand side of your screen. you will see a lot of these videos. these are people stampeding out of the stadium right after a pop concert, right after a suicide bomber blew himself up right outside of the stadium, shredding human lives. we'll be right back. ♪ ashley: ash national security analyst ryan mauro says terrorists are taking out a terror strategy. roll tape. >> it causes economic damage but there is also a strategic plan they have that publish very few people talk about. called the extinction of the gray zone. what this is, the idea is to carry out horrible attacks, most provocative attacks possible in europe, in hopes, random people, than attack innocent muslims. they published this, what will happen the gray zone are the muslims not on the side of isis but not quite on the side of the west either. they believe in anti-mus

"varney & company," and here is charles payne. >> i'm charles payne, stuart will be back on thursday. is being used to describe this attack that hit hundreds of thousands of people and organizations and 150 and continues to spread this morning. it really is, even though the damage has been mitigated, it has been significant enough that it's believed to be the world's biggest on-line extortion attack ever. cyber security stocks right now, indicating higher this morning. meanwhile, in china, 1.4 trillion dollar plan to build roadways

stuart is and he explained last week. >> it was a week-long gathering with the varney clan, my six children, nine grandchildren came in fromew jersey, by the way my fourth child to marry, two more still to go. some think that stuart is about to retire. quote, stuart has gone again, soon he will be like johnny carson and fill-in host for his own show and only be there once a week. no. we promise you, stuart is taking time to visit with family. when you fly in from australia you don't say bye, good-bye. liz: i was going to say are you the ed mcman. [laughter] ashley: stuart is most definitely here full-time. liz: he's probably in the take-out line in mcdonalds for a buck 50 and heading to guests. stuart: he hasn't retired but he's cheap. liz: he's cheap. i don't think he will ever retire and die in that share. [laughter] ashley: that's how dedicated he is on ratings here. i hope you are enjoying yourself, spending time with your family, relaxing and not thinking about what's going on here. you need a break. it's a long show and he does it with a smile every day. all right, stuart will be back on thursday and we will be right

. >> "varney & company" starts now, and here is charles payne. >> i'm in for stuart.mazon, google, apple, facebook are at or near all-time highs, some are asking is this 2001 all over again? i'm comparing to 1973, widow's on orphan stocks, you bought some stocks and held forever. nifty fifty and now

"varney & company" begins right now and here is charles payne in for stuart.nk you very much, maria. i'm charles payne in for stuart and you've got a lot, apple cash pile makes them a very powerful company. and think about all the things you could buy with that money. nevertheless, the stock is reacting to the news that the iphone missed last quarter. hillary clinton, let's face it, she can't get over it. blaming the fbi director, wikileaks, everyone for her election loss and president trump and kellyanne conway responding on twitter. wait until you hear what they have to say.

varney & company" with charles payne. >> thank you, good morning, i'm charles payne in for stuart. here is what we have today.d president trump for the health care law's failure. and meanwhile, g.o.p. bill moves to the senate where there are battle lines drawn, and they may have to rebuild this from the ground up. >> and hillary clinton sending a tweet about the french election and taking a swipe at the media in the process? and we're all over it, "varney