varney?ort for 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:

more varney minutes away.edex has helped us simplify our e-commerce, we could focus on bigger issues, like our passive aggressive environment. we're not passive aggressive. hey, hey, hey, there are no bad suggestions here... no matter how lame they are. well said, ann. i've always admired how you just say what's in your head, without thinking. very brave. good point ted. you're living proof that looks aren't everything. thank you. welcome. so, fedex helped simplify our e-commerce business and this is not a passive aggressive environment. i just wanted to say, you guys are doing a great job. what's that supposed to mean? fedex. helping small business simplify e-commerce. . . . . charles: charles payne in for stuart varney. beg stories, protests in paris, clashing with police. we'll take you there live. media asking why there were so many white men celebrating the rose garden ceremony. claudia tenney who was there in the front row. she will respond. "new york times" criticizes president obama getting 400,000 for

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we cover it all on varney and pane for you -- "varney & company" for yous which is about to given. ♪ ashley: and a quick look at the dow futures for you with. how about that? more green arrows. the dow showing it will be up 42 points or thereabouts at the opening, the s&p and nasdaq also up again after record closing highs yesterday. it just goes on and on. higher profit, by the way, in sales at home depot helped by a strong housing market. premarket up over 1%. nice quarter for home depot. a few more retailers reporting this morning, tjx and marshalls and home goods, weak sales and guidance. weak sales also at dick's sporting goods but encouraging sales at staples. up nearly 2%. all right, let's stay on the economy and bring in economics professor peter morici. tenured professor, stuart likes to point out. [laughter] peter, i would argue that the strong housing market clearly giving the home depots of this world a nice boost and also another positive sign for the economy despite all of the political turmoil, a crisis a day it seems coming out of washington. the economy is going alon

"varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ . >> stop! oh, (bleep).uy 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 it wasn't aggravated enough. american reporting decreasing leg room one to two inches in economy class. apple shares in the premarket. right now, the key was iphone income is expected and the company sitting on $256 billion in cash and you can buy ten border walls for that much money or buy everyone in america a new iphone and kill two birds with one stone. let's bring in shah gilani. it's close to your net worth, i'm not sure you need the money, but the stock hasn't come down? >> it's got so much money to execute buybacks and that's one of the reasons, they bought back between dividends and buy p buybacks. and they're projecting 300 billion. there's a bid, i'd like to see them doing special dividends. >> even though they have the cash pile, thissor about 100 billion. indirectly, they're using that money by taking advantage of of low int

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"varney & company" starts right now. ♪ .harles: we begin on a devastating note where a bus of coptic christians. ashley: at last count, 23 people killed and wounding 25 others, a bus 140 miles south of cairo, they were headed to a monastery and attacked by eight to ten individuals dressed in army fatigues. isis, no one has claimed responsibility, but isis has been targeting coptic christians several times in recent months. there was a terrible bombing or bombings at two churches in april that killed 46 people. an indication how coptic christians are targeted in egypt. charles: so far no hash tags from the media. looks like a lower market. here is market watcher jeff sicca. all right, what can stop this market rally? >> i think obviously with google and amazon, it's going to give the market the fuel to move up. there's optimism, a call for optimism. one thing we have to be aware of is we have a market that's continued to make historic highs which means there's going to be a greater, greater expectation of perfection, so any l

>> i absolutely agree with you, varney.rstand with aetna, as well as united health, all these other types of insurance companies they're pulling out in these different states. in the case of iowa where they're basically, there is one insurer left for these individual markets, and what you're seeing if they pull out, what do iowans have? they don't have an option. stuart: yeah. >> i find what is happening is, with these health insurance companies, yes definitely partly obamacare. the other part of the equation is the uncertainty and instability right now that these insurance companies are experiencing. the problem is, is that the insurance companies themselves are not necessarily agreeing with the gop health plan. they have not basically supported this plan. they're staying on the sidelines and we need more tax credits. we need more cost-sharing. the risk pool amount is not enough. i got to tell you, if we can't, if republicans can't get health insurance on board it will be more difficult moving forward on the bill. stuart:

varney. [laughter] >> a friend of mine from new jersey years ago.t. 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 and that is its tracking of shopping not online shopping, i

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a familiar faces joining us right now host of "varney & company" stuart varney, we missed you -- >> owwyou thinking about. >> i thought going to ask me where i was. >> where were you my daughter's wedding, yeah. >> how great. >> -- that is a beautiful shot. >> yes, it is that is my daughter emma, married to justin married on cape cod monday afternoon monday of this week pb all went well, and as you can see, that is a nice shot brings tears to my eyes my fourth child we assembled entire clan six children nine grand dplirn all over the world on cape cod where i have been three days. >> fantastic we knew had to be important, i did not roy your daughter was getting married congratulations. >> that is important -- one of the things i would go for, i am away for that. not much else. >> what is a advice to the son-in-law. >> to son-in-law? you got me maria you really got me a fine young man i will tell you that, he is a hard worker, desent young guy known him sometime fits right in welcome digs my executive producer sitting next heckling me as i say this a fine young man, are great guy, welcom

"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

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

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stuart varney will be back tomorrow.starts 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 stre

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to talk about that and to weigh in on the tax, host of "varney & company," mr. stuart varney.cks. stuart: why do you love it when i talk about tech stocks. dagen: because you talk about the companies not in terms of stocks, but what they do in terms of business of the company if you're a shareholder. stuart: i've been doing this for 40 years. i'm not sure i've seen five companies dominate like these five. we call them the fabulous five. i'm not sure-- let's see if i can get it right, it's apple, it's alphabet, it's microsoft, and it's amazon and what is it going to do? it's going to give a special dividend to shareholder and i think a lot of shareholders are hoping for that and that accounts for some of the run-up in the stock that we've seen and they can buy back their own stock. they can buy virtually any other company on the planet full cash if they want to. so far they haven't. they could do it and they could bring that money back to america, invest in new factories here and build the iphone in america. i think it's highly unlikely or they can do absolutely nothing at all.

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

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

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

. >> host of "varney & company" stuart varney how expediting yint dro to stuart are you a gambler. >>tion for you at all no blackjack action at all you don't -- >> i hate the idea of gambling you lose everything put down your dollar you stand a chance losing all of it an investment worst you lose 90% i digress what i wanted to tell you oscars in macau have you been there? >> yes, i have. >> is it a let's inform viewers difference between vegas oscars a-- and macau seven yes ago theyn casinos was opening first thing is silence not vegas where ding, ding, ding, ding not like that at all fairly quiet you casually hear roar of one who won big money difference number one sound, number two, very few slots, it is almost all table games. you see enormous amount of cash big thick wads of cash walked around with slap down on table, it is trefk, atmosphere terrific constantly clad young women offer drinks in las vegas different than macau ladies offer you boldz water tea if you try to find bar for a drink good luck not many bars on floor casinos, in macau there are differences here is one more,

maria: next week, the french elections and "varney & company." charles payne is in for stuart. maria. we have a lot of stories, 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

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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

& company" stuart varney weighs in big hour don't miss it, stay with us on that, and we go back to thatident 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 report. also, today, president trump will be meeting with first leader, from th

thank you very much for your time being with us on "varney & company."ee 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-muslim backlash

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

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

the host of "varney & company," stuart varney, good morning to you.s creating more american jobs. i think it's creating a political problem for all concerned. if you look at it, i've counted the cash on hand of just three silicon valley companies. they've got almost a half trillion dollars in cash. this week we're going to find out that apple has more than a quarter trillion dollars in cash, just that one company. well, what are they going to do with all of that money? the politicians would love to get their hands on some of it. what are they going to do to get some of that money? i think it's emerging as a significant political problem. i don't think ever before in history private enterprise companies have amassed so much money in cash at the same time. i've never seen it before. i think there's going to be political repercussions. i don't know what they are, by the way. maria: and by the way, one of the reasons they're amassed all of that money is the tax policy. they felt, stu, they were getting taxed twice. stuart: that's right, and they were. if

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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

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neil: only thing that i worry, inget angry emails from people, usually from varney.eeds to cave a lot. just my impression. i could be very, very wrong, i am not here to second-guess him, i guess i'm second-guessing him, to keep the lights on, no movement on the environmental protection agency for funding for that, planned parenthood a lot of funding for that. keep domestic spending priorities. having military commitment he wanted, to move past, fine, i understand the rational for that. fight another day, bigger battle like health care law and, the tax cuts. but don't people have your number when they see you folding like that? >> here's the thing. i believe that you have to be a basically a president before you can be a statesman. a lot of people ran for president, and made their kind of commitments to cave early. he got elected. he is finding some things very tricky to get done. what he has to do is not pay attention to the shiny objects. forget the gas tax. get a tax cut done. get health care. neil: focus, priority ties? >> absolutely. neil: wait a minute. i wonder

. ♪ liz: the retail ice age that "varney & company" coins that you have been hearing about, well, considerfreeze mode right now. we have big-name department stores, macy's jcpenney, target, nordstrom, all taking pretty significant plunges here. jcpenney down 14%. nordstrom down 10% due to couple different things but that underlying sort of what you call it, art world when you can still see when is underneath the actual painting, rise of amazon and online shopping leaving shopping malls and anchor stores boeing out of a business or with a smatter offing people. these images on the screen earning title ghost malls. oppenheimer managing director brian nagel what is really at work here. it can't all be just amazon, is it? >> no. i think amazon is a big piece of it or a piece of it. other factors at play. in my view, i've been talking about for a while, we have a sluggish consumer environment. the consumer is not performing as well as one would expect in the economic cycle. on top of that recently, weather, we don't like to use weather, it sounds like an excuse, weather has been a challenge for

option there, the president's first campaign manager of course was corey lewandowski, he was on "varney & co." earlier today and reminded that withdrawing from the paris climate agreement was indeed a campaign promise from this president. >> i think this president is looking at this and saying i'm here as the president of the united states is. that the right thing for our country? if he comes to the decision, which i think he will, that it is not the right thing, he will remove us from this terrible idea. >> reporter: big business all across this country in favor of staying in this agreement. and one of the biggest ceos weighed in just a little while ago. elon musk, of course, of tesla and spacex fame tweeted out the following half hour ago. here's what musk said, don't know which way tariffs will go, i've done all i can to advise directly to potus and via councils that we remain. musk is on several of the high-profile councils. he was asked on twitter, what will you do if he, meaning the president, decides to leave. musk responded we will have no choice but to part councils in that cas

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 bil

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

richard, we have a democratic strategist on the varney show earlier today, and we said the what do thehis situation as the turmoil continues? he said absolutely nothing. we stand on the sidelines and just watch it all unfold. from the democrats perspective what is going on in the white house, what is your take on all of this? >> i hope it is clear nobody wishes ill on the markets or nobody wants to have a president that can't function, who can't function. the problem though is, do a thought experiment here, ashley. if we had isis that got hillary clinton into the white house in part, and that she then asked comey for his loyalty because maybe he was investigating obama, and that isis was brought into the oval office and she took out the u.s. press but allowed the isis to have their press in, i mean, run with me hoare, house i am -- impeachment would have started yesterday, right? the problem for markets and agenda, as long as this is hangg out there, i don't think there is any relief. we haven't gotten to the big stuff which is possible treason news conduct with russians. liz: alleged

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& company" stuart varney weighing in, you don't want to miss a moment do stay with us as we kick itp 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, a lot of people on the left are talking about cuts, but actually cuts to t

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corey lewandowski, first campaign manager reminded us of that when he appeared earlier today on "varneythink this president is looking at this and saying i'm heresa the president of the united states. is that the right thing for our country? if he comes to the decision, which i think he will, that it is not the right thing. he will remove us from this terrible ia. >> reporter: if the president widraws from the deal, it would flin the face of the changes that the obama administration engaged in over eight years. the head of the dnc put out this statement earlier today in regards to the reports. thomas perez saying we shouldn't have to wait until mar-a-lago is under water for president trump to care about the consequences of climate change and shouldn't be joining syria and nicaragua as the only three countries in the united nations to oppose this historic progress. you talk about, neil, the potential middle ground in all of this. there are competing factions within the white house. on one side have you ivanka trump, jared kushner trying to pitch this deal. on the other hand, you have sco

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