i named him after you, varney. he's been trained at a racetrack in california.t this. i really didn't. then we got this, came to us from ginny. there's a racehorse at santa anita track in california named varney, finished third in his very first race january 25th. lauren: and update, that horse made $7,000 so far. stuart: really? do i get a piece of that? i guess i don't. lauren: attention: stuart. stuart: i'm flattered. there's never happened before and never heard of anything like that. i'm flattered, really. if i get out to california, in the unlikely event that i do, i'll go and check out varney the horse. why not? lauren: speaking of california there's simonetti wine. stuart: is there? lauren: seeing it in places and no relation. stuart: in australia, there's varney wine. any wine in the family, ashley? ashley: i wish. i wish. just a dictionary, webster's dictionary, that's the only one. stuart: that's right. this is from janet: we watch your show every morning and realize there's a host of talent behind both stu and lauren, and ashley, and support the fact

second hour of varney just warming up. brian brenberg, have you ever seen a more stark contrast to the exercise of power? brian: super bowl we, talk about teams moving the ball down the field instead of being stuck in their own zone that is what trump is doing on all fronts, you got to say finally somebody is fighting for our interests, they know our interests and can i add he is sending an awesome team out there, look at tom homan and pete hegseth at the border, kristi noem out there, elon musk pushing the ball down the field, everybody is out there, making things happen and can't keep up in this business, that's the best position to be in. stuart: you are a professor, not now but you were. brian: i do a little bit, teach people here and there. the abolition of the department of education, you want to see it but is it possible? it has been tried many times before. brian: it somebody is going to do it is this team. i don't think the efforts were that strong. what i think now is donald trump is saying i've got nothing to lo

second hour of varney just getting started. the gentleman on the other side of the set, democrats are saying this is a constitutional crisis. lauren: unconstitutional to look at budgets, to ask questions about what we spend our money on? i'm not a lawyer, not a constitutional lawyer but elon musk is just digging in. i don't think there's anything in the constitution about that. he went to a limited a department you need congress to do it, fine, okay, but you want to change to a sitting in what seats and what they are spending money on i think that is fine but it is the real oligarchy in dc that hates that, the lobbyists, the lawyers, the bureaucrats, that is the real permanent oligarchy that pulls the strings and they can't stand it because they are losing their permanent power. stuart: they are losing out. brian: they will throw everything they can at the courts but elon musk is going right over it to the american people using x, telling the story. stuart: next case, nancy pelosi was confronted about her role in joe biden's de

my other favorite is stuart varney -- stuart: oh, that'll do the trick. [laughter] good morning, cheryl. good morning, everyone. doge expanding its investigation of government. musk is looking at medicare and medicaid which together spend about $. 1.5 a trillion a year. he's issuing daily reports on the problems that he's found. just wait til you see where usaid money is going. we have the list. >>> the left is apoplectic. musk hatred is rampant. democrats want to take the fight, that that's their word, to the streets. they are angry because musk is effective. let's get to the markets. all eyes on big tech. are these companies spending too much on a.i. in the face of a cheaper alternative from china? their long rally has stalled and, by the way, some lawmakers are looking to ban deepseek on government devices. as for the dow industrials in advance of the opening bell, we've got some green. dow up about 70, nasdaq up about 12. little bit of green, not much. bitcoin still under 100 grand, 98,6, to be precise. interest rates, look at the 0-year level, your b

that is it for "varney & company".ight now. >> the message from president trump to the entire world is very clear we are done being taken advantage of. >> we need to tell china as was mexico, as well as canada to get the fentanyl out of our country. >> if you want tariffs to go away mexico and china stop poisoning americans. >> this is not a t

second hour of varney just beginning.iz peek, i'm dying to know what was your reaction when you saw the riviera of the middle east? >> i was watching donald trump talk about the rubble, the unexploded munitions which i never thought about which is a huge problem. buildings about to fall down. i thought he is a developer, he has got to go there, he's going to talk about redeveloping gaza but like you said everyone is going to dismiss this, headlines in new york times and wall street journal act like it is a done deal, a proposal on the table, he's just thinking out loud which he tended to do but you have to say what are they going to do with gaza? the majority of people in gaza support hamas, we are never told that but polling has showed that is why hamas runs gaza, the people of their think that's what they should be doing, oh so what are they going to do? allow these people to go back to their homes and two years from now, four years from now, 10 years from now have another october 7th? what is the solution? the problem

that's it for "varney and company".>> what i have discussed is that we will have some good meetings with china. we have meetings planned and we will see what happens but that was just an opening salvo. if we can to make a deal with china the tariffs will be very substantial.

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"varney & company" picks it up. take it away. >> good morning everyone. the president will place tariffs on canada, mexico and china affect about midnight tonight. there will be some short-term pain, investors are feeling the pain right now, you're looking at a cell the dow industrials will open maybe at 600 points lower, s&p down a hundred, a big drop for the nasdaq coming looking at 400 points to the south, bitcoin tell enough to wear down to $94700, that is the latest price per coin a little change for interest rates, no obvious flight to safety the ten year yielding just above 40 half% in the two year over four and a quarter% just below 424. oil for maine 7464 a barrel filed with the 10% tariff imposed on canadian oil. it's a very big day for your money, follow it all the way through the day. a very big day politics as well the administration is playing hardball. elon musk shut down a government agency, u.s. aid, top officials have been put on leave or resign and the website has been down since saturday and elon musk was closing it down he asked presi

time is up for us, that's it for "varney and company".ve, "the big money show" starts shortly, actually starts now.

see you again tomorrow, "varney & company" begins now. stu, take it away. stuart: good morning, maria. good morning, everyone. it was a jaw-dropper. president trump has a solution for that pile of rubble known as gaza. america takes it over, levels it and turns it into what he calls the riviera of the mideast. that was a stunner. of who pays for this? where do the palestinians go? trump's idea has been contemptuously dismissed by just about a everyone, but we have yet to hear my other plan. trump has at least offered an opening fam bit. in the in the absence of any other ideas, let the negotiations begin. that's' where i'm coming from. elon musk is rapidly consolidating his power, and the democrats are apoplectic the. senator schumer tried to play rabble raiser, it didn't work. the -- rabble-rouser. two big name stocks in the news, start with apple. china is reportedly investigating apple's app tore for possible monopoly practices. the stock down 2%. alphabet, that's google, way down. its cloud business outlook disappointed. they're spending $75 billion on

"varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ it's finally friday p i'm free again ♪ i've got my motor running wild weekend. ♪ muck. stuart: finally friday. yeah, you can say that again. [laughter] the news is coming so thick and fast these days, that by the the time you get around to to a friday -- lauren: feels like friday on a tuesday. and it looks like summer, but it's freezing. stuart: it's more mild today. just a little bit, anyway. a federal judge has delayed trump's federal employee if buyout offer. morning, lauren. when's the new deadline? lauren: monday, 11:59 p.m. a federal judge intervene ising as a lawsuits by labor unions are considered. the judge scheduled a hearing to hear them on monday. in the meantime, 60,000 federal, workers have accepted trump's buyout offer. that's about 2.5% of the federal work force, and this at usaid. reuters is reporting 97 job cuts. the agency that -- 997% -- 97. the agency is expected to keep just 294 workers out of a staff of 10,000. stuart: i think you could call that draconian, and i have. and i will. thanks, lauren. jason chaffetz with us. trump

my other favorite is stuart varney -- stuart: oh, that'll do the trick.. good morning

see you again tomorrow, "varney & company" begins now. stu, take it away.aria. good morning, everyone. it was a jaw-dropper. president trump has a solution for that pile of rubble known as gaza. america takes it over, levels it and turns it into what he calls the riviera of the mideast. that was a stunner. of who pays for this? where do the palestinians go? trump's idea has been contempt

lot, voters won't have a, trump won't have a, the sanctuary era is drawing to a close, second our varney just getting started. brian brenberg is with me. going too far? the sanctuary era is over. brian: they are closing the door on it and the way you do that is money. the problem for the past many years is these cities kept getting money from the government to not do the things they were getting the money for so pam bondi said if you are not fighting crime, migrant criminals we won't give you the money we've been giving you to do that end story, people in sioux falls shouldn't be sending money through the doj to chicago to have migrants getting welfare. it is kind of obvious and i think you are right, even voters and sanctuary cities are going to say wait a second, my mayor is protecting people making my life worse? stuart: texas democrat al green wants to file articles of impeachment against trump. watch this. >> ethnic cleansing in gaza is not a joke. especially when it emanates from the president of the united states, the most powerful person in the world. when he has the ability to p

i remember one time stuart varney almost fainted on the set when the stock market dropped 1000 pointse day over trade talks and back-and-forth we may be in store for them for the coming year. maria: i would get your take on underwriting the enemy this is a new vaccination series that drops tonight but disney has set the table let's get to cheryl casone disney also is reliant on china and a big way. >> it is for the box office which this quarter that we will report on right now is very strong but especially with the box office situation with disney china is important, disney had a very strong quarter they came in at 1.76 the estimate was 1.45 they beat on revenue 24.69 billion emil wanted to which was a big movie last year really help them talking about a hit from hurricane milton on their theme parks business. under talking about streaming it was strong and are talking about the advertisement that the biltmore on placement and password crackdowns not helped on the streaming site and they said that yes pn the title on the disney+ out is improving so the situation for disney+ hulu and e

"varney & company" picks it up. take it away. >> good morning everyone.exico and china affect about midnight tonight. there will be some short-term pain, investors are feeling the pain right now, you're looking at a cell the dow industrials will open maybe at 600 points lower, s&p down a hundre

third hour of varney starts now. ♪ stuart: guy benson joining me this morning. think, has he really overwhelmed the powers that be and what is put in place will stay? >> for the moment, they seem overwhelmed and the second part remains to be seen because it's not just donald trump the president that checks the power and congress would have some authority if they choose to do so and of course the courts will ajude indicate much of this -- accrude indicate much of this and rally and senator schumer and the rally and schumer was awkwardly trying to leave a chant of we will win. i want to know what winning looks like in his estimation. going back to this situation like we've seen for decades where unelected faceless bureaucrats just feed billions or even trillions of dollars, our dollars, into a meat grinder with no accountability. is that winning? is this an idea that none can be looked at and not a cent is wasteful, and it's completely wrong and scary to take a new approach to this and lay fresh eyes on it? i'm not sure that's an argument that they are going to wi

"varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ finish. ♪ you don't know how lucky you are, boys ♪ stuart:that song. it's very old. we have to start with, china responding to president trump's tariffs with tariffs of their own. china's finance minister said, yes, it would impose a 15% tariff for coal and liquified natural gas, 10% for crude oil, agriculture commitment and large engine car as -- cars from america. they will open an antitrust investigation into google. all of this was put in place just hours ago. there will be a phone call between the president and xi jinping at some point today. remember, please, phone calls yesterday with mexico and canada quickly yielded a pause for the tariffs. we'll bring you any news on today's call with china in a new minutes, we'll talk to press secretary karoline leavitt the see if there's negotiation taking place today. >>> president trump's and canada's prime minister, justin trudeau, they were able to negotiate a deal to delay the tariffs for at least 30 days. good morning, madison. what's in that deal? >> the main part is that canada has vowed t