i'm brian burg in for stuart varney. brian: the trump defense team to file a motion to discuss has been granted and the communication director call it is a dee sighsive win -- decisive win for president trump. joe concha is here to weigh? on it. joe, great to see you. trump is calling it a decisive win. what do you think? >> i think, i want to look back to say january of 2024, brian. so much has happened. 94 felony counts against donald trump. cases in new york, washington dc, georgia, and he wins the popular vote and swing state and crushes kamala harris electorally and republicans control the senate and house. if you told me that was going to happen in january of 2024, i'd say okay. let's see what happens and we saw what happened. lawfare does not work and peep don't like the weaponization of the justice department against political opponents doesn't matter republican against democrat or democrat against republican and i think democrats will think twice before they try this again because they left a sour taste in every

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of i'm in for stuart varney, stuart will be back on monday. yes, it's black friday in the christmas shopping season, now in full swing. consumers spent a record $6.1 billion on line on thanksgiving already are, that's up almost 9% from the same time last year. shoppers also expected to spend a record $10.8 billion onlined today but, get this, stores are expected to have even greater sales. but there could be shipping problems. amazon workers in 20 countries planning to strike starting today through cyber monday. and meanwhile, anti-israel protesters with free palestine signs screaming and crashing the a macy's thanksgiving day parade. police arrested more than 20 people there. to the markets, futures slightly higher today. today, of course, is a shortened trading day. the dow and s&p, nasdaq can will close at 1 p.m. but, by the way, bitcoin hovering just above $97,000. still slipped from that 100,000 the mark. gold is now trading, let's see, it's up about a $20, up $18.9020 $22,6 -- 2,6800. oil up 50 cents to $69.222. on the show today, meta's

i'm david asman in for stuart varney. it is a short trading day because it is black friday, the day after thanksgiving, the dow's upper hundred points, s&p up 20, nasdaq doing pretty nicely up 101 points. treasury yields are down a bit, 6. 4 basis points, or you'll i believe is trading in the green, up $0.75 just below $70 a barrel, nice day for bitcoin up 98,000 again, heading up towards that one hundred thousand market. get your bets in. senator federman is urging his party to stop freaking out about the loss to donald trump saying, quote, we are not even at thanksgiving, he said that a couple days ago and democrats just can't stop losing our minds every 15 minutes, we really need to pace ourselves, just grab a up. tammy bruce is with me this morning. i don't think the democrats are going to calm down anytime soon. federman is the only one who has kept with about him. >> people are realizing covering real news, being involved, having to think, taking it seriously is tiring, that happens, you get democrats who for some r

i kid my whole weekend in florida, the first question i got asked saturday night, does stuart varney re nuts? probably, but he brings me on anyway. stuart: i think you're funny. >> thanks for that, i'll let them now. stuart: fox news saturday night, 10 p.m. eastern. jimmy, you're all right. i still see red ink for the dow industrials, that's off of 200 points, but the nasdaq, that's completely turned around. now we're up 70. mike murphy with me for the hour. question, has the trump rally faded, and is it now all about profits going forward? >> well, first question, trump rally faded, we can't go straight up forever. we got the election, we got the results that the market wanted, so that's where we are right now. now we're going to shift our focus to earn earnings, as we always get back to earnings. we heard from wall marthe today. -- walmart if today. we're going to hear from nvidia tomorrow. so, yes, the focus is on earnings. but the focus is also on january 20th when the trump administration starts, what type of pro-business initiatives are going to come out that are going to help c

"varney & company" picks it up. stu, take it away. stuart: good monday morning, maria. good morning, everyone. according to "the new york times," the president-elect is fed if up with howard lutnick, apparently, he's been hanging around too much. the other front-runner, wall street guy scott bessent, is also said to be out of favor. some new names are coming up. wall street billionaire mark rowan, former fed governor ken warsh, tennessee the senator bill bill haggerty and robertize hate -- lighthizer. brendan carr has been nominated to run the federal communications commission. trump also tapped an oil man to run energy, chris wright. he's big on fracking, once publicly drinking frack fluid to show is it doesn't affect if drinking water. we've got the video. here's what's happening this monday morning after friday's heavy selling. the dow's down about 40, minor gain for the s&p, minor gain for the nasdaq, up 70 points. bitcoin holding right around $90,000, just dropped to 89,6. interest rates, the 10-year close to 4.5%, 4.46%. the 2-year at 4.31% as of now. the price of

i'm brian brenberg in first stuart varney, straight to your money and markets are, dow, s&p, nasdaq in the green, doubt nicely, 300 plus points, 10 year treasury show me what is going on, down just a little bit. oil, where's that? trading almost 1% and bitcoin is when i was watching, 97-2, waiting to get to 100 k. meantime we are going to go to tammy bruce and talk about the view and what is going on. they are fuming today about joe rogan saying he's not a reliable source. tammy:that's why people know our show, we are checked by abc news. if we are wrong, we have the legal mode here. they want from walter cronkite to this guy, joe rogan who believes in dragons. this is the type of bad information that is going out there. brian: joe rogan responded that's my new x description. he promptly changed to his bio to read dragon be lever. tammy bruce is with me and wants to weigh in on this. the view saying joe rogan is not a reliable news source. tammy:nice to see you on friday. my pontificating -- a harsh taskmaster, that's what you are looking at when it comes to legacy media. the idea of p

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is he going to be napping on the couch in stuart varney's office, probably. >> right. >> steve: jonathanuch. great analysis. pennsylvania is a must-win for both candidates and the polls are just going to open in a couple of minutes and rachel is there right now with a pot of coffee. and we talked to harris campaign surrogate pete buttigieg. he is coming up next. good morning, sir. ♪ nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid for twice as long as pepcid. get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day. choose acid prevention. choose nexium. [dog bark] ♪ [dog whining] is your dog telling you they may have allergic itch? apoquel is the #1 treatment for allergic itch... that veterinarians have trusted for over 15 million dogs... and it starts working in just 4 hours! do not use in dogs with serious infections... may cause worsening of existing parasitic skin infestations... or preexisting cancers... and serious infections. new neoplasias have been observed. do not use in dogs less than 12 months old. ask your vet for apoquel. now available in a tasty chewable. ow! uh oh

i'm david asman in for stuart varney. a shortened trading session that ends at 1 p.m.tern time, the dow is up almost 200 points. s&p, believe, is in record territory, and nasdaq is zooming along, it's up 130 points. zooming close to that 1% mark gain. show me big tech, if we can get through them all there. we have them starting with nvidia. s it is doing nicely todayed the, up 2.3%. apple is up a bit. trading now at $235.83. amazon is up as well, but microsoft and alphabet are down. let's check the 10-year treasury rate. i believe it's down a bit, down 5.4 basis points. it's come back a little from where it was. now let us listen what podcast star joe rogan said about google censoring his pre-election interview with donald trump. listen. >> they a made it impossible to find the video. and we had to complain. they said it was an accident. and if my concern i might be able to do something by mass complaining about your podcast. like, mass flagging it. >> right. >> like, if i have a bot system and i can get, like, a million people to mass flag your video, maybe it gets pu

stuart: the times are a-changing. thanks for joining us, art. we'll see you more in the future. >> thank you, varney. that trump has been elected, new york city's mayor, eric add ap, is weighing -- adams, is weighing in. what did he have the say? lauren: he's willing to work with trump on the migrant crisis after president biden didn't listen to him. >> i'm willing to sit down with this administration, like i tried to sit down with the priest if administration in my ten concern previous administration in my ten trips washington and say we have a problem that's overrunning cities. i'm hoping this administration will listen to some of the ideas that i have been pushing for over a year now. stuart: lauren: adams' ideas, work visas, background checks, working with the city council on policy that will allow the deportation of criminal migrants. he's against mass if depor asians -- deportations, but some common sense there. i do have some good news on the migrant crisis, especially in new york city. it is starting to ease. ten shelters around the city, closing next month. stuart: i believe mayor adams went

stuart: we've not you on tape. that the's ooh great. tom homan p great to have you as always, and we'll see you again soon. good luck, sir. >> thanks for having me or, varney city just cut a major benefit for illegal migrants. whoa, cutting a benefit? what was that,s ash? ashley: those voucher credit cards. new york city's pilot program as you, we've talked about many times, distributed debit cards to my grant families staying in city-funded hotels, allowing them to buy their own food. it was very controversial. supporters, though, said look, it costs taxpayers half as much as the original boxed meal delivery service that my grant cans often didn't eat. however, since late march the city has provided prepaid debit cards totaling $3.22 million to 26 the 00 migrant families living in hotels so they can buy food and baby supplies. those cards, by the way, gave a family of four about $350 per week to go shopping. many critics argue that the debit cards are, quote, fundamentally unfair to the city's working poor who certainly do not receive similar benefits from the city. new york city mayor eric adams says the program will end within the next several months, b

varney. i suspect you would concur. stuart: as a matter of fact, i would, yes.s. all right, jeff, you're all right and we'll sew you again real soon. thanks for being with us, adam, for the hour. >>> coming up, mike pompeo has full confidence in trump on the world stage. retired four-star general jack keane is here to react to that. senator elizabeth warren won her contest in massachusetts but by a smaller margin. what does that mean? carine hajjar will break it down. trump took pennsylvania by a narrow margin. was fracking the big issue? if pennsylvania congressman dan meuser has that. more "varney" after this. .. your business needs a network it can count on... even during the unexpected. power's out! power's out! -power's out! power's out! -power's out comcast business has you covered, with wifi backup to help keep you up and running. wifi's up. let's power on! let's power on! let's power on! -let's power on! it's from the company with 99.9% network reliability. plus advanced security. let's power on! power on with the leader in connectivity. powering possibi

"varney & company" takes it. stuart: good morning, everyone. what a great way to start thanksgiving week. a rally that carries stock prices to all-time highs. the dow industrial up over 380 points at the opening bell, the nasdaq up 140, the s&p is up .6% a solid gain there, trump's treasury pick scott bessent is a big hit on wall street he is stimulating some of the rally, his priority is tax cuts you might call this the scott bessent rally. it came down over the weekend for bitcoin but now it's back challenging the 100,000-dollar mark 97500 at this moment. another positive, interest-rate slipping a little, the ten year treasury is below 4.4% expected 431. the two-year close to the tenure at 432. the two year yielding more than the tenure. an interesting situation, politics, borders are tom home and getting to work he will visit the border tomorrow he plans deportation then essentially states and cities he will charge them with a felony. 29 the climate summit is over developing countries are demanding more from $300 billion a year for climate m

stuart: mark tee son, it's greas great to have you on the show. it's a fine thing. >> always have a good time when i'm an the air with stu varney. how can i not. stuart: all right, tepper, as in mark, is still with us. what are your thoughts on this transformation administration? >> i think it's just been spot on so far. and probably my favorite part is this department of government efficiency. i think that has been even leading into the election, one of the most underappreciated components of trump's campaign whereby you have two guys, you've got elon and vivek really focused on eliminating wasteful spending, similar to what javier milei did in argentina and balanced budget over the course of a new months and took inflation down from 20% to 3% over the course of the time frame. you've got two guys and look at vivek back in the first republican primary debate talking about zero baseline bungling. whatever you spent last year, doesn't matter next year. we start from zero and build from there and that's awesome. stuart: i'm big on this meeting with the gop and president elect trump this morning. trump brought in elon musk, he got a standing ovati

varney starts now. stuart: steve forbes with me this morning.e familiar with presidential politics and why is the media intent on nitpicking trump? they can't stand hip, can they? >> that's true. it's powerlessness and didn't have the right policies during the campaign and haven't phased up to that yet and more vigorous and bold and nonsense on spending and crime and shalls and dire straights around the world today. that's a record. stuart: yes, it is, actually. he hasn't got them all through yet. that's a record for doing it quickly. that's for sure. we have this cop 29, the u.s. and other countries, rich countries that s they've agreed to triple their funding for climate change projects and they're supposed to spent at least $300 billion a year given to developing countries by 2035. it's not going to happen, is it? this green stuff is fading, isn't it? >> this colonialism and don't develop your own resources and alternative sources of energy, which don't work. highly expin sieve and hurting their development. never buildup before and a lot of

i third hour of varney starts now. stuart: steve hilton with me this morning.i being extreme saying the climate crowd is a spent force. am i going too far? >> no. i love this topic and love your take on it. stuart, they're the ones who have been extreme. i'm, green is good. we all love the environment and want to protect the environment, but all the desire to save the planet and so on, it's emissions are going up while they've been inflicting all this pain and suffering and misery looking at reality of life in america today l climate extremism going back 20 years and global solutions act of 2006, look at facts of life in california, the main driver of the fact we're the most expensive place to live in the world pretty much, certainly in america. highest water bills and gas fries and housing cost and climate extremism that's driving all of that and none makes sense. they're shutting down the oil industry and importing on giant super tankers and doesn't even make sense on its own terms and you're walking off a cliff much that's what they're doing and people had e

third hour of varney starts now. stuart: do you think this work s? >> it's all they've got. mean, exactly as you say, it's negative from the harris campaign because they have a negative record. where are the ads saying we've done a good job on this and that issue and there's no ads like that because there's nothing positive they can talk about from their four years, same with trump. he's saying it riles up the democrat base and not enough to give them strict x-ray all the signs we're seeing, momentum with trump and he's been positive and side of the character we haven't seen much of in previous elections and he's winning that argument in terms of the last few days of this campaign. the energy is there, momentum is there. we'll see if the fear mongering works but it's a sad state of affair when is that's all you've got as a candidate and party. stuart: steve, you're our california guy. the democrats want to flip four california house seats -- flip four seats and gop held now. the democrats want to flip them to democrat. flip the four seats and retack control of the house and

thank, everybody, chris mcmahon and cheryl casone, we will send it over to "varney" & company right now. stuart

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third hour of varney starts now. stuart: joe concha is the gentleman on the right hand side, $100 million a week and democrats still lost. did they learn anything, joe? >> we learned a holt. you need a it up hour to go through all the things they spent money on in the span of 15 weeks and especially towards the end of the campaign. you brought up before, jen o'malley, dylan that ran the campaign and stephanie cutter and david pluff. we were told they were campaign geniuses because they ran the obama campaign 12 years ago. sure, they ran this and they'll probably never work on another major campaign. i hope the team that posted your monologue was one of your best and you broke it down so clearly. i hope they posted on social media and everyone should see that. for starters, meeting him at mar-a-lago over the weekend and these two call him hitler, a fascist, natzi sympathizer and going r them and xenaphobe and going for the comments on the page this morning, their viewers in full revolt over the meeting at mar-a-lago and two

"varney & company" picks it up. stuart: good morning, everyone. the president-elect is off and running. he's making very clear what he will do on day one of his administration. last night, a bombshell. trump announced he would impose tariffs on mexico, canada and china if they didn't work with him on migrants and drugs. it is a specific threat. 25% on items coming in from mexico and canada and an extra 10% over and above any existing tariffs op on china. he wants an end to the flow of illegal imgration and drugs -- immigration. the dow is down 1404, but the s&p -- 140, but the s&p and the nasdaq are higher. bitcoin is heading south. st coated -- quoted at $92,200 a change. -- a coin. jack smith has ended his legal pursuit of donald trump. he spent $50 million of taxpayer money. the biden-harris team tried lawfare to beat their political opponent. it failed miserably. trump will be president. on the show today, a ceasefire deal between israel and hezbollah many remember are non, it favors israel -- in lebanon. "the new york times" says iran wants i

varney and "varney & company" picks it up. stuart: the president-elect's picks are as contentious as ever. rfk jr. will run health and human services. kennedys has radical plans. what he calls the caron cantic disease epidemic, he's taking aim at them all. the medical community is alarmed. the president-elect wants to get his cabinet installed fast. he wants them installed with recess appointments meaning no long, drawn-out senate hearings. senate majority leader john thune says all options are on the table. bottom line here, trump will get most, if not all his appointees through. his transformation of governments has begun. to the markets, affected by fed chair powell's declaration that he's in no hurry to cut interest rates. the dow do off 160, and look at the nasdaq, down close to 200 points. interest rates actually little changed, the yield on the 10-year is up fractionally at 4.45, and the 32-year is coming in at 4.34% -- 2-year. not much change. bitcoin, last time we checked it was $89,000, moved up, $90,000 a coin. oil is at $

third hour of varney starts now. ♪ stuart: guy benson with me now.re tactics have failed and have the democrats learned anything from this? >> i don't think a lot of lessons are learned in politics anymore, stu. maybe for a hot minute a technical term, a hot minute might second guess some of the things they did, and i do find it very interesting. have you noticed how it seems like the entire center left has simply move on from all the court cases against trump? forget the documents in court and dismissals and in terms of emphasis and priorities, they've put it in their rear-view mirror and in many cases, especially new york, the whole point wasn't to seek justice. the whole point was to stop donald trump from winning an election. then he won the election. that's not how the judicial system should be used and criminal justice and use that had way and tried and failed and a lot of others think that's a good thing. stuart: take the populous working class proposal at his word or proudly supports tend to. guy, does old fashion liberalism, id politics, is

"varney & company" picks it up now. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria. good morning, everyone. the extent to the of trump's win is becoming apparent. it was truly historic. a county-by-county analysis shows him winning just about everywhere with almost all demographic groups. the republicans have cemented their control of the senate. dave mccormick won in pennsylvania giving the the gop 53 seats. there are still two races to be called. and the house looks likely the remain republican. that would cement a clean sweep. meanwhile, the democrats are in absolute disarray. kjp storms out of the press conference. despairing democrats are all over social media. one cutting her hair or in protest. to the markets. thursday, a quarter point rate cut. stocks went up some more. in this morning no serious selloff. the dow off maybe 20 the -- sorry, up 20. s&p down 5 and the nasdaq down 60-odd points. by the way, powell says he is not leaving the federal reserve even if asked by trump. a new high for bitcoin early this morning, it moves well above $76,000 a coin. right

"varney & company" picks it up now, stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, everybody. the president-elect is rapidly consolidating his power. the transformation of government is in place. the republicans have retain thed control of the house. they got the white house, the senate and, yes, the house. trump is finalizing his cabinet. he's appointing loyalists who will follow the maga movement. they accept trump's policies and his authority. his latest pick, matt gaetz for attorney general. that is controversial. gaets is a political firebrand. he's not going to be a shoo-in, but the stage is set for government unified behind the president-elect. anyone inflation numbers out this morning, prices paid by business. in the last year they've begun up 2.4%, and that is slightly hotter than expected. stocks, though, on the rise again this morning. the dow jones industrial average looks like it's up about 70 points, but we've got a downside move to the s&p and the nasdaq down 35 at this point. interest rates just a little higher after that inflation report. the 10-year is 4.46%,

"varney & company" pick it up. stuart: good morning, everyone.president-elect donald trump ap thing pam bonn key the at his attorney -- bondi as his attorney general nominee. bonn bondi is a longtime trump a ally and was one of his lawyers during the first impeachment trial. trump chooses another loyalist who does well on television. the hunt is still on for a treasury secretary. "the wall street journal" reports that trump is considering fed governor kevin war, with the intention of eventually -- warsh with the intention of eventually tapping him as fed chair. overseas putin escalating his threats to the west just hours after russia launched a ballistic missile into ukraine. the kremlin threatened the attack a new american defense pace in to poland with advanced weapons. -- base. how about that? let's get to the markets. you have to start with bitcoin. has it hit $100,000 a coin yet? not quite with. it backed off to $97,7000. let there be no doubt this is trump's crypto rally. now now get to stocks. the dow is up, what, 16, minor loss for the s&

varney and "varney & company" picks it up. stuart: the president-elect's picks are as

maria: we'll leave it there have a great day, "varney" & company picks it up, stu take it away. stuart: see this smile? good morning, maria, and good morning, everyone. donald trump is the president-elect. he won the electoral college and the popular vote. the gop has won, or is projected to win control of the senate. the house is still undecided but it's leaning strongly to the republicans. it's a huge trump win. it is a political realignment. the gop is now the party of the working class. the democrats are the party of the elites. harris underperformed with blacks and hispanics. that's compared to biden in 2020. republicans are stunned by the size of the win. democrats shocked and demoralized. okay, that politics. now look at the financial reaction. there is a huge rally in progress right now. look at the dow. maybe up 1,200 points at the opening bell, s&p up 119. the nasdaq is up 330 points, all of them 2% up for the dow, nearly 3%, s&p 2%, 1.6% for the nasdaq, big gain. and look at this. tesla, a big gain there. investors like elon musk's association with the president-elect. up 30

thank, everybody, chris mcmahon and cheryl casone, we will send it over to "varney" & company right now. stuart: i'll take it good morning, maria, good morning, everyone. is this the most consequential election or what? two very different people with very different views on how america should be governed. the candidates have wrapped up their campaigns. donald trump was still on the stage at 2:00 in the morning. he was addressing a rally in grand rapids, michigan. that's where he ended his campaign in 2016. it was his fourth rally of the day but energetic to the end. joined by his family he promised to fix problems and he will be voting at 11 eastern in palm beach, florida. kamala harris closed out her campaign surrounded by celebrities. oprah winfrey said if trump wins this could be the last election we'll see. harris said, the true measure of the leader is not who beat you down, but who lifts you up. she spoke on a stage at the rocky steps scene of the movie. it's in philadelphia. she spent the whole day in pennsylvania, considered the must-win state so what's happening on the markets on elect

third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ stuart: look who's here, deroy murdock joins us on the set in new s i can only imagine what the media's going to do to try to split these who to apart. they don't want them together, do they. >> no, that's a lot of force together. this this is a lot more than they'd like to see in the same direction. but i think trump and musk have sort of a father-son vibe, they seem to have a wonderful personal relationship not just a personal -- professional relationship. this is a business program, so i wonder the business angle here, how long will the investors in musk's companies tolerate him spending all this time on public service and not running tesla and spacex and all of that. will they start to get itchy and say go back to the work -- stuart: unless the work inside the government helps his companies. >> that's right. and going in and rooting out all this waves, abuse and fraud and what not leads the economy to take off and benefits the entire economy in which case, please, enjoy your extracurriculars. stuart: it's fascinating to watch as it fold if out t

third hour of varney starts right now. ♪ stuart: steve forbes with me now.s this the beginning of the end of green movement or am i wildly exaggerating? >> not at all. >> we have cheap fuel and energy and we're going to allow to have natural gas exported again. stuart: wouldn't that make a difference and natural gasteluer polluting than oil or coal. why redistrict export or restriction production of it. >> china is an importer and directly or indirectly will be the source of it. that's a global situation today and that's good. stuart: ro khanna said his party's messaging on the economy was a failure. roll tape. >> e with did not have a excelling enough economic vision. the democratic party should have one simple mission, and that is to address the economic hardships and struggles of many of americans, not just working class americans, a large slice of americans who feel the american dream has slipped away for their families and their kids. stuart: but the trouble is, steve, the democrats have never really shifted away from a basic policy of tax and spend, ev

varney and company up next, take it away. [laughter] stuart: what wases that, you're fired? if. maria: i'm talking about illegals, not trisha. trisha's not fired. stuart: i got it. good morning, maria. good morning, everyone. it was exciting. nvidia's numbers rolled in late wednesday afternoon, the king of a.i. chips turned in a spectacular report. revenue if almost doubled. $35 if billion in one quarter. the ceo with, jensen huang, says the a.i. gold rush continues full steam. his words. if however, because the numbers weren't spectacular enough, the stock dropped initially. but look at it now, it's coming back, up $2 in premarket a action. another financial headline, bitcoin hits $97,000. there are reports that the white house is considering appointing a crypto czar. trump is cleary helping bitcoin. -- clearly helping bitcoin. politics, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy lay out their cost-cutting plan in today's "wall street journal." they would submit a list of regulations to president trump, he would take executive action to pause or abolish them. they take their authority from

. -- "varney" starts now. ♪ ♪ [laughter] stuart: brian brenberg -- that was a good comment, you caught the media doesn't get it. will they ever get over their elitism? >> no. you made the great point about they can't relate to the average person, hay don't try to relate. the tim walz thing was an attempt to do it, and it flopped. then they thought, well, let's trot out the shiny objects, the celebrities. we're going the put them up on stage. they just came in succession, it was like a parade. you want to be like them, they're going to vote for me, do what they say which is the most condescending thing you can do the a thinking, feeling human being who is capable of having independent thoughts. that's their problem. stuart: bernie sanders says the dem the accurate party has abandoned the working class -- democrat party. newt gingrich told me this morning trump created a substantial political call movement. watch this. >> what you had on the one side was a political campaign. that was harris. what you had on the other side is an enormous and growing political movement. and when you have

"varney & company" picks it up. stu, take it away. stuart: all right, good morning, everyone. bigtime developments on the border, in retailing and on the international front. that's where we begin. putin is rattling his nukes. last night the ukrainians used american missiles to strike deep inside russia. this morning putin has responded by loosening the rules on the first use of nuclear weapons. he has lowered the threshold for their use. perhaps he's playing on president biden's weakness which was again evident when he failed to show up for a g20 photo op. reporters found him behind a palm tree. that that's not going down well, the dow took a dip when the news was released, and it's headed further south. look at that. dow off maybe 500 points at the opening bell, the nasdaq down another 200 points. gold, that is rallying. it's a safe haven. it's moving up now to $2,638 an ounce. as for bitcoin, firmly above the $90,000 the level, 91,000 and small change. now to the border. president-elect trump says he will declare a national emergency and bring in the military to help with m

second hour of "varney" just getting started. ♪ ♪ stuart: charlie hurt joining us this monday morningjust put trump in a bind. should president-elect trump verse the use of these missiles to be used deep inside russia? >> i think you're exactly right. president biden is not thumbing his nose at vladimir putin, he's thumbing his nose at the american people who just had an election, and it was very much about this issue, and president trump's promise that he was going to bring a quick end to this. and voters register thing their dissatisfaction with the campaign to keep this war with going. and so i think you're exactly right about it. and it does put president trump in a bind, and it makes it extra difficult because at a moment like this, you want the country to be unified in facing a foe, and this makes that very difficult by, as you point out, president trump -- president biden literally reversing course on in this issue to make it basically leave a ticking time bomb in the lap of the incoming president. stuart: house speaker mike johnson, he thinks the ethics committee should not re

see you again soon, "varney & company" picks it up. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, everyone. president-elect trump moving very fast to put his team in place, and that team will reverse all of biden's policies. trump is putting marco rubio in charge of foreign policy as secretary of state, mike waltz heads up national security, or lee zeldin at the epa, custody nome, department of homeland security. -- kristi noem. add these names to tom homan and elise stefanik, and you have an administration that is exactly opposite everything we've seen during the biden years. and it is the having impact. look at this. bitcoin hit a new high of $89 ,000 earlier this morning, now it's $86,000 and change. trump is a crypto guy and is expected to unshackle the industry from current sec chair gary gensler. the impact is already apparent on the stock market. minor selling this morning after a series of record highs for stocks. the dow, though, likely to be the up another 70 points at the opening bell, a tiny gain for the nasdaq. the bond market reopens and rates inch hig

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varney and company ten picks it up. stu, take the it away. stuart: here it is, the last big report on the economy before the election, yes, it's jobs day. in october only 12,000 jobs were added to the economy, the low number in about four years. some effect from the hurricanes and strikes built into this very low number. the unemployment rate stayed at 4.1%. there's political significance to this. clearly, a weak labor market right before the vote is. all right. now the market reaction coming after a sharp selloff yesterday, thursday. the dow up this morning maybe 200, s&p up about 25, 26. the nasdaq up about 85 points. quickly to apple's stock, it's actually moving lower. their financial report showed solid iphone sales, but they're down because of that $14 billion european if tax payment they had to make. amazon, they're going straight up. their growth rate has improved over the last few quarters. that stock is up a solid 6%. here's the big story of the day, interest rates. they're going down, way down, on that weak jobs number. the 10-year treasu

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stuart: thank you. still had, trump is meeting with house republicans, sources say elon musk is there and musk got a standing ovation. trump told the room he was 100% with speaker johnson. much more varney next. 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: the president meeting with house republicans which we have sources in that meeting which tell us musk is there and musk, as in elon, got a standing ovation, trump told the room he was 100% with johnson. he's going for unity with house republicans and one hundred% for speaker johnson, i think he will get the unity wants. check those markets, the dow is up 90 points, nasdaq down 22. still a split decision. the action is in the cryptos. look at bitcoin. 9100, it's approaching $92,000, that's an all-time high. tell us what the future looks like under trump. ashley: according to some, donald trump could be tiktok's saving grace years after threatening to ban the apps in his first term as president was biparti