Moving out. It is continuing to go on though. You can hear the protesters chanting. Now, does the senates repeal and replace obamacare placeholder have a pulse . As the afternoon goes by, some are indicating its dead before arrival because theres a gaping loophole in coverage for what those protesters are concerned about, preexisting conditions. If the senate manages to pass it, will the house close that loophole . Georgia congressman Drew Ferguson is a dentist in the House Doctors caucus. He voted for the house version which included the preexisting coverage. Hell take the pulse of the bill for us live. And the nfl players didnt like President Trumps comments in alabama friday night, demanding that nfl owners fire those, quote, sons of bitches who wont stand for the National Anthem. Will the president end up being right . Ratings today show the showdown is bad for business, but would firing the football stars be even worse . The former owner of the new England Patriots, Charles Sullivan, on what he thinks about the players, the protests and President Trump. On wall street the nasdaq feeling the burn as its most popular stocks get torched. The only to index moving higher right now, major one, well tell you. Were less than an hour to the closing closing bell, lets start the count down. Liz so we are awaiting the president whos about to speak at any moment, but in the meantime, we just wanted to let you know that Hurricane Maria yes, it is still a hurricane is now only 30 miles away from 300 miles away from North Carolinas post. Warnings mean its definitely coming, posted for much of the North Carolina coast, Tropical Storm warnings, and mandatory evacuations have been ordered for visitors to certain areas, especially the ones around hatteras island, right now maria is moving north at 7 miles per hour, and we promise we will bring youorenformation as it getslor and closer tohe cot. Tually, its a category one at the moment. Its the thing, its just not dying. Quickly checking the markets, north korea jitters making their way back on wall street. Take a look at this chart. Around 11 a. M. Eastern today the rogue nation came out with a stark warning saying it has the right to shoot down strategic u. S. Bombers even if theyre not in the air space. The news sent the dow tumbling 130 points to session lows and i believe for the nasdaq which is coming down for a whole bunch of reasons but looked very, very dramatic, i believe down 82. Both are up off the lows of the session, but the volatility index is spiking right now. Off the highs but still up about 12. The vix is the the biggest gain since september 5th. The latest geopolitical flareup is driving investors into safe haven assets. If you look at the tenyear treasury yield, it is falling three basis points. Right now the yield 2. 22 . Gold bugs always like are it when money goes in, but when you start to see average investors push in a little money, you can tell theres concern. Up 14 a troy ounce on. But there is a bright spot in the market today, thesrussell 2000. The small and mid caps. We know you own a lot of those stocks, but it is moving higher just slightly at the moment. We can see the russell, we let me just check. Russell, actually, and this is significant, hitting an alltime high today. It is still higher, just fractionally, i would say its almost flat here, but pretty significant. When Everything Else is down and you do have, certainly, regular volume for most but more volume for the tech stocks that are moving lower, that is something to be mentioned. One of the most highly anticipated mergers on wall street possibly hitting a roadblock. Shares of sprint tumbling on reports that rival tmobile will not pay a big premium or any premium at all if the two Companies Agree to merge in an allstock deal. So sprint is falling eight and a third percent, tmobile down about 2 . But when a company gets bought, their shareholders definitely want to see a premium. However, this all gets very, very complicated sometimes because tmobiles real parent is Deutsche Bank and sprint, soft bank, so depends on what the bigger guys in the picture say. To the white house right now, where President Donald Trump is set to make that announcement at any moment from the oval office. Heres what hes expected to announce. Hes expected to sign a memorandum that instructs the department of education to invest a minimum of 200 million each year to expand access to high quality socalled s. T. E. M. And Computer Science education because thats where the jobs of the future and currently are right now. This as it was revealed just moments ago that the white house by the white house that certain details of President Trumps tax plan have been finalized and will be revealed on wednesday of this week. Let us get to fox business blake burman who just left the White House Briefing to give us a preview. First to this i hesitate to call it jobs because its really for the department of education to then, certainly, train kids to be prepared for the jobs that will be open in the future, correct . Reporter and this yes, liz has specifically been a pet project of ivanka trump. These s. T. E. M. Related educational experiences for students and trying to build that up within schools all across the country. What were about to hear from the president is this new memorandum that he will sign instructing the department of education to put at least 200 million a year into schools specifically for these s. T. E. M. Educational experiences, classes essentially, and they want a big focus on Computer Science. You were talking about tax reform too as well, and the press secretary, sarah sanders, saying how certain parts of tax reform have been finalized. That comes as the president said over the weekend that parts of it had, indeed, been finalized. But the press secretary moments ago gave us a bit of a preview as to what we can expect to hear from President Trump on wednesday when he travels to indiana for the big unveil. The president will are discuss new details on the framework for these cuts and reforms. These details will include specific proposed rates for individuals, Small Businesses and corporations, and he will also discuss the elimination of loopholes that have rigged the current tax code in favor of the wealthy and well connected. Reporter moving the markets on this day as you discussed, liz, is this threat or this declaration from north korea in which they feel the United States has declared war on that country. A north korean official even saying today that they feel they could, quote, shoot down United States strategic bombers at any time. Sanders was asked about that, and she pushed back against the notion that the u. S. Is at war with north korea. Well, weve not declared war on north korea and, frankly, the suggestion of that is absurd. Reporter dominating the White House Press briefing though, of course, is this new National Conversation about the nfl and players kneeling and President Trumps reaction to it. I bring that up, liz, because as you know we just talked about it, the president is expected to speak from the oval office momentarily, supposed to be on this s. T. E. M. Announcement. We often hear questions shouted, the president often answers those. I have a strong suspicion if he does, itll be on that topic. The white house is already trying to build up the argument that the president is not against these nfl players; but, rather, for the american flag. Well see when this is posed to the president , if it is, how he responds. Liz we actually, blake, have the former owner of the new England Patriots coming up in just a moment, so i hope people stay for that. Well pointedly ask him, of course, if you owned the team today, would you fire these players, stand with them or come up with some other solution . Youve got to hear what he has to say. Thanks so much, blake. Reporter yep. Liz throngs on angry protesters from around the country barging in on the Senate FinanceCommittee Hearing on grahamcassidy. That, of course, is the revised American Health care plan bill that the senate is hoping to get passed, voicing their opposition to the Gop Health Care bill. And it could come up for a vote any day now. I believe the deadline is saturday if they want just for it to pass by 51 votes. The bill was hastily revised over the weekend to direct more money to states where senators are a little intransigent and a lot intransgent; alaska, arizona, john mccain, kentucky, rand paul, maine, Susan Collins. These, of course, are states where senators have said theyre wavering to the no side or they will not vote in favor of the bill or theyre just saying theyre undecided at the moment. All of this as the senate careens towards the saturday, september 30th, deadline to repeal and replace obamacare. Republican congressman from georgia Drew Ferguson is a dentist and a member of the gop doctors caucus. Thank you so much for joining us. With your practiced both political and medical eye, does this thing have a pulse in the senate, or has it already flatlined . No, i think it does have a pulse, and i think its important the senate keep work on it and get the house a bill. Weve already passed a bill in the house, weve shown a willingness to push forward on this issue. And what the senators know is what i know, that my constituents back home are hurting under obamacare, and we have got to do something, get them some relief, and lets fix our Health Care System. Liz you voted yes on the original American Health care act, correct . That is correct. Liz now, it protected people with preexisting conditions. Grahamcassidy, as we understand it, allows states to increase premiums for people with preexisting conditions, and while supporters argue that states can get a waiver from obamacare protections like preexisting conditions, itll be fine as long as the states promise and i quote adequate and affordable coverage. Heres the problem, representative, it isnt specifically articulated what adequate and affordable coverage is. And that was the exact point that fox news Chris Wallace pressed mark short about that issue. Lets listen to this, and then you can comment. Adequate and affordable coverage will be guaranteed to every one of those states that apply. But they can whats the definition of adequate and affordable, and what does it mean when a state can raise premiums . State that is, again, that is a separate question, and do you want washington, d. C. Dictating what across the country what those rates are for everybody what good is Insurance Coverage if you cant afford to be covered . Liz so, congressman, do you have any idea what the bills definition of adequate and affordable is . Well, were waiting to see what the final bill coming from the senate is, but i can tell you this i think the question, the end of the question right there in the interview where they said what good is coverage if you cant afford it is exactly what were saying about the Affordable Care act right now. We have premiums that are through the roof, deductibles that are really out of reach for the average american family, and so we have got to move in a different direction. And i think that anytime that we can return power to the states in the Decision Making closer to the people, its a good day for america. Liz you know, you are so right. I have a very close friend who is a freelancer in chicago. Well, she already cant afford it, but in a couple of months some trigger is going to be pulled, and she said i will not be able to afford coverage. So it absolutely has to be fixed. But if it were to pass in the senate as is and it must come back to the house for a vote as it stands, would you give it a yea or a nay when theres this squishy area about what really is covered as far as preexisting conditions are concerned . Because just about everybody i know whos an adult has Something Like that. Well, let me say this, i stand by what we said originally in that we want to make sure that every american has access to affordable coverage. I certainly havent seen the final draft of the bill as theyre still working on it, and were going to wait to see that. But were going to do everything that we can to do our part to push this bill across the finish line because what we have right now is simply not working. Its unaffordable, its a broken system. And its not only hurting patients, its destroying our entire Health Care System. You know, at the beginning of your interview you asked about me being a health care provider. I will tell you this is going to continue to drive providers out of the medical community, and were going to exacerbate the problem of access to care. So weve got to do something, and i believe this is a step in the right direction. I also think its important to remember that we as congress should not expect to take one single vote in the Health Care Debate to be over. This is the first step in what will be a long process of rebuilding our Health Care System and moving away from the Affordable Care act. Liz before we go, as health care stumbles and tries to find its way, do you have belief that the tax reform plan can pass, signed, sealed and delivered as promised by the end of this year . I do. Im excited about the possibilities, im excited about a plan that is much more simple, that is much more fair. It removes the loopholes and the unfairness in the tax system. It lowers rates on every single american. Thats what were fighting for. And i believe that it will happen because this nation is hungry for job growth. Americans want good paying jobs. We know that if we do, if we do our homework, we get this right, we are going to have success as a nation economically, and that is vitally important because we have a 20 trillion debt, and we have got to pay that down. Liz and floss, always floss, right, dentist . Absolutely, yes. [laughter] liz i know. Im a little obsessive about flossing. Hey, thats a good thing. Liz keep us posted. Congressman Drew Ferguson, thank you so much. So in the end, were always talking about business and whether its health care or anything else, the nfl is a business that literally owns a day of the week. With the closing bell ringing in 45 minutes and the dow cutting its losses in half, it definitely wasnt any given sunday yesterday as scores of players and owners knelt in protest over the president s stance that players should be fired for taking a knee during the National Anthem. But will any of the owners really fire players . And what will that do to the league as a business . A fox business exclusive, the former owner of the new England Patriots with his bet on how this drama plays out and should play out. And its not just nfl jobs the president is focusing on. Hes about to reveal live from to School Office oval office how he plans to fill the gaping skills gap. Countdown coming right back. Nah. Not gonna happen. Thats it. Im calling kohler about their walkin bath. My name is ken. How may i help you . Hi, im calling about kohlers walkin bath. Excellent happy to help. Huh . Hold one moment please. [ finger snaps ] mmm. 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You know, weve seen this in, and the tech stocks were the biggest beneficiary of the upward move, theyre going to be the biggest beneficiary on the downward not the beneficiary, but subject to the biggest decline. Nothings really changed here. The fact that the vix is up 10 today and the markets are only down less than half a percent is kind of scary. People are looking for this volatility. Were going to get with it eventually, but this isnt the reason right now. Liz alan, what is the reason from where you standing . Like matt just said, i think its just rotation. Its money flow movement. You saw big gains in tech. Youve seen the russell 2000 play catchup in the last month where it had been unchanged, its up to new, alltime highs. We did have a key reversal last week in tech, so we had new highs and a lower close and a lower weekly close. Maybe well see a bit more profit taking. But to get to the vix, its interesting we have had six straight weeks coming into this week of lower highs. Weve seen this decline from 1750 continue to slide, fall and now were getting a bit of a bounce. Now, its important to see if its sustainable because even and every time weve seen it, its been whacked right back down. Keep an eye on the energy stocks, theyre doing well. Liz yeah, they sure are. The S P Energy Index is hitting a four month high because oil prices are now above 51 a barrel. Ive got to tell you, its been a while since weve really seen that. Lets see if it holds. Its at 52. 14 in the aftermarket session. Luke, thats your territory, and its tending to at least hold up some of the market here. Yeah. I mean, it was my territory below 50 where i didnt think it was going to break out liz i know, mine too. [laughter] theres so much of a glut. But apparently its rebalancing now. But, liz, thats the whole point, right . For the last three or four years we always talk about are they going to artificially cut supply, are they artificially going to pull back on production. So there can be a lot of oil out there. The part that i keep talking about, the bottleneck, are the refineries. People should look for higher distilled products prices. This winter theyre going to pay for more heating, gasoline is up, i dont think its coming back anytime soon. But part of this oil story is this saber rattling, and its also the weaker dollar. Look at the dollar move over the liz dollar was weird. Over the past day, forget a couple of months. It was earlier high, and then it reversed. Its been moving around so much today, i dont even know what its doing. Okay, most currencies right now are lower versus the u. S. Dollar. In fact, the euro was hitting, i believe, a multiweek, maybe even multimonth high. But at this point, matt, let me just finish with this idea that youre starting to see some of the big momentum stocks hit close to connection territory. Im thinking amazon, tesla. I dont know if we can get tesla up, but tesla will be in correction territory if it hits above 346 a share. Thats no surprise, but does that give you a sense of the Broader Market getting too tightly wound so its springloaded to implode at some point . No, i dont think so. I think you look at the small caps, they are catching up. Still look at the energy names. You know, toward the end of the year, what are you going to do in your portfolio for any reward . Buy some of these energy names. Theyve been moving higher today. Thats just what were going to see. Its not a surprise. I dont think its any doom or gloom thats out there. You know, lets focus on today. Its a little bit of maybe you see theyll come in and buy the market. Weve seen that all along, buy the dips, buy the dips. Just when it looks bad enough, thats when people step up. Liz alan, thats the question. People are getting anxious. At least people who have seen certain movies before. What we havent seen is how the fed is going to unwind with its gigantic and bloated balance sheet. Of course, last week was the announcement, october 5th theyll start doing it. But now you have a whole bunch of fed people speaking out, including janet yellen. Right. Liz these comments coming late this afternoon from chicago fed president charles evans. He is concerned like a lot of people that inflation, pricing power, rising prices too low, and they cant raise, he says, until inflations on a sustainabling path of 2 . I dont want to get too in the weeds here, but if you dont have wage growth, Wage Inflation meaning peoples wages go up, especially with this tight housing market, what are we to think of that . Well, i think Wage Inflation will eventually spark a bit. Youre starting to see some of that. If you look, there are five million job listings out there. We dont have qualified candidates for a lot of those jobs. So, you know, eventually the price theyre going to have to pay these people will go up. Im confident that the feds going to you may not agree with their policy, but im confident that the feds going to pull the right strings at the right time. They dont have to unwind this balance sheet, theyre going to. They could just let, you know, these things mature and get the proceeds. Well have to wait and see, but im confident theyve done the right thing now for eight years, and the results have shown so far. Liz we have breaking news, the president is signing basically an issue of 200 million for the education department. And as he prepares to do that, it is for training our students for the jobs of the future. Do they look like nice people . Hes a nice person, steve. [laughter] well, thank you, all. Its a great pleasure to be here with secretary devos, secretary cost that and ivanka. I also want to express my parisian to representatives brooks, smith and fox. Thank you all for being here. Thank you, thank you very much for being with us. And mimi walters, thank you very much. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, susan. I want to just talk about leadership. Thats the most important issue, we need leadership in this country. Women and girls and for every child in america represented by all of the incredible students here today. These are great students. Are you all Good Students . [laughter] everybody has really terrific marks, right . Yes. Well, youre doing fantastically, thats why youre in. I just said before the press came in, whats the name of this office . The oval office. Every one of them knew that, right . As you know, the workplace is changing. We need to create new pathways for all our citizens to get the best jobs. When you get out of school, you want to get great jobs, right . Yes. Iveed asked ivanka to lead up the effort on Work Force Development and the issue today is a critical part of that endeavor. Have you seen ivanka . Do you know ivanka . Wheres ivanka . Theres ivanka. [laughter] my administration will do Everything Possible to provide our children, especially kids in underserved areas, with access to high quality education in science, technology, engineering and math. Are you a good math student . Yes. Are you . Lets see. Whats your strength in school . Science . Yes. Good science, right . Whats your strength . [inaudible] there you go, man. Thank you, honey. Thank you. [laughter] in particular, Computer Science for grades k12. Thats so important now, right . Its a whole new world. Youve got to know how to use those computers. Currently, more than half of high schools do not offer Computer Programming, and nearly 40 do not offer physics. Do you have Computer Programming in your schools . Yes. How about you, do you have them in your school . Yes. You all pretty good with computers . Yes. Its important nowadays. Greater access to s. T. E. M. And Computer Science programs will insure that our children can develop the skills that they need to compete and to win in the work force of tomorrow. Who likes to win . [laughter] anybody like to lose . [laughter] better s. T. E. M. Education also means higher paying jobs for liz well, the president blowing away the naysayers who way back in march when he first took office that the department of education would be gutted by budget cuts. It is to the department of education that the president has just signed the order to grant 200 million to begin with for getting children up to speed for the jobs of the future. I call it a brave new world, he said the same thing, new world here. This is fascinating to us because s. T. E. M. Jobs, the science, technology, engineering and, of course, math are where we see a real skills gap in this country. Did you know, and we can put it up here, there is a Record Number of job openings right now, 6. 2 million jobs. Ths from the septemb jolts, job openings and lab turnor metrichere. So i want to bring in our political panel. Democratic strategist Richard Goodstein and conservative commentator john jordan. 6. 2 million. Somebody woke up and, you know, the president granted his daughter ivanka the atta girl on this one because, clearly, we havent been training people for the right jobs. John jordan, how do you see this working . Because we also know that the federal government is notoriously bad at job training. It really should be left to, perhaps, you know, what they call the private sector. Well, the federal government is pretty, is very, very bad at this. But this is still a start. Its important that we do get our schools up to speed in this area. This is near and dear to my heart and my business and my foundation. And the 6. 2 million jobs, weve got to get those people to work. At the same time, theres still a lot more Unemployed People in this country, and we need to make sure we have the right fiscal policies that are going to create a lot more jobs than those 6. 2 million, because weve got a lot more unemployed than that. Liz the president s first budge he had floated back, at least one of them back in may, proposed a 40 cut to job Training Programs. President bush, i remember, had put together many of these job Training Programs during, you know, difficult times post9 11. Do you think that thats a mistake, or do you think that thats the way to go and start educating the kids way earlier . Listen, bill gates has said k12 is has been a disaster when it comes to s. T. E. M. Look, nobody will disagree that an investment in s. T. E. M. Education is, you know, will suggest its not wise. It is. Both parties, you name it, rich and poor alike. The problem with this is this is 200 million. Great. When donald trump proposed his education budget back in may, it called for a 9. 2 billion cut in the department of education. So the point too of the 9. 2 billion, thats what hes now suggesting. Thats the equivalent. This is a, this is nothing compared to the size of the cut that hes suggesting. So i guess id want to know is he basically saying were out of it, in which case why is he even bothering with the 200 million liz because its targeted maybe . You know, its targeted in the right place. Maybe there was bloat and redundancy. But lets just say this, john jordan, in addition to jobs Health Care Reform is is being thrust back into the spotlight, and that, of course, on capitol hill is not working once again. There appears to be some people who are saying forget it, senators saying were not ready to do this. In fact, i want to let people know 4 30, in one hour, rand paul the senator from kentucky has called a news conference. Do you understand what senators have a problem with on this one . Well, they all different senators have different problems with it. A bold prediction, i dont think it happens. Youve got mccain whos a hard no, rand, senator paul whos so invested in voting no on this. Hes a senator, he didnt run for president , but he wants to dictate whats in the bill when sometimes politics is the art of the possible. And then youve got Susan Collins who really doesnt want to vote for this x. The latest push, the latest modification was really designed to put senator murkowski over, the idea being if she goes over and goes to yes, you might be able to put enough pressure on senator paul because you put him in the position of being the guy who sank the repeal of obamacare. Thats the direction that leaderships trying to go with this, and its a real uphill climb. Liz i would just correct, rand paul did run for president in 2016, but i think you meant he didnt win. Listen, were going to take that, im sure after the bell well be letting everybody know what rand paul is about to say. We cant guess. Hes a no right now, but he could have changed. Richard goodstein and john jordan, good to see you both. The closing bell 27 minutes away. You know, inch by inch we are climbing back to the flatline. The dow is still down 56, but it had been down 130. So youre seeing a little resilience here. Youre seeing resilience on both sides in holding their ground when it comes to all kinds of issues between athletes and President Trump. Steph curry wont get invited to the white house, but it doesnt seem to be affecting his biggest sponsor. Under armour up today after Capital Markets upgraded the Athletic Company to overweight with a price target of 20. Right now its at 16. 66. Under armours been down more than 41 this year. And in that same vein, nfl owners standing by their players as they take a knee during the National Anthem. Should they be punished . 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Or just changing metrics and changing the way that people view things, whether its online or on their phones . And if so, how much of an impact will these protests have on the league going ahead . We asked former new England Patriots owner and former nfl Labor Committee chairman Charles Sullivan in a fox business exclusive. Great to have you. Youre a former owner. If you owned today, what would you do . The president said if any player took a knee, fire the, quote, s. O. B. S. Would you . Our family would not do that, no. Liz why not . We, we feel that there was a giant disconnect here and a giant disconnect on the part of the president , a disconnect on the part of the players. And when he made that statement, he didnt realize what an impact that would have, and the players also didnt realize what they were doing would also have a negative impact. So there were two giant disconnects, and as i think i had mentioned my background is my late father whose name was billy sullivan, he and his colleagues liz other team owners. Other team owners that developed the american football league, paul brown, joe robbie, ralph wilson, they were all navy men. Our commissioner won the congressional medal of honor. Liz and you served as an infantry captain in vietnam. I did. Liz so youre standing up for the players. I assume, can i guess because its freedom of speech and that the things you fought for where are the constitution . Well, i think that the, as i said, theres a disconnect because the players instead of expressing solidarity among themselves, it would be my hope that theyd express solidarity with the soldiers who made it possible to have the wonderful nation that we have, the soldiers who died, the soldiers who were hurt, the soldiers who are current hi serving. Liz currently serving. Liz completely, completely agree. It seems misdirected. However, this is what and it began with Colin Kaepernick this is what he thought might get attention to what he felt were really devisive Race Relations in this country. So it would have spread anyway, i think, it kind of had, but did President Trump throw some gasoline on the fire by simply saying these guys should be foured in and then adding fired . And then adding to it, oh, the refs are ruining the game by giving penalties for hard hits. You know, weve evolved and figured out theres some really bad concussion numbers coming out of the nfl now, and would we not be remiss if the league didnt fix something on that regard . I think that [audio difficulty] on this issue. The commissioner and the Wonderful League office is focused toen that issue focused on that issue. But i do think that the president did throw gasoline on the fire, and it caused this reaction with the players which was unnecessary, because what were trying to do is the National Anthem, what that stands for, is devotion to the nation, devotion to the soldiers who have served, who have given their lives and the soldiers who are continuing to serve now. Liz although here we are a Business Network right. Liz the nfl is a business. No ifs, ands or buts. You ran a team, you you know how expensive it is. Ratings are down, and the earlier games yesterday whether it was the steelers or the giants, even with their owners standing with them, the ratings were down yearoveryear. At what point do the owners turn around and say, okay, we understand where youre coming from, but this cant be the place. People dont want a side order of politics with their entertainment here. No, people do not. And the appropriate place to protest is to run for office or join the social media, do those kinds of things. The appropriate place to protest is not during the National Anthem of a nationallytelevised game for the fans who are looking forward to seeing football. Liz one last thing. Weve not heard from a single sponsor raising concern or pulling their advertising from the nfl games. Do you expect eventually they will . I dont think so because, ultimately, this problem will be solved. I mean, ultimately, the players will realize once they do realize that the National Anthem is something thats a source of recognition to what soldiers have done for them, for all of us. And once they come to that realization, i believe this problem will be solved. Liz well, the country has a pretty rich tradition of athletes taking political stands, everyone from muhammad ali to jesse owens to Marty Glickman throughout the years so, you know, it shouldnt be a surprise to to people. Its just en masse and pretty dramatic in this day and age. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, and thank you for your great show which i follow all the time. Liz oh, thats nice. And, you know, my husbands a patriots fan, but im a Cleveland Browns fan. Come on, give me some browns love. Oh, okay. Liz he cant even. [laughter] do you hear him . Nobody can. Except me. I think the browns are doing a great job of trying to right the ship. Liz 03, great job. Good to see you. Thank you. Liz and he runs premiere Event Management now. The market Still Holding steady, same exact place they were at the top of the hour, down 62 for the dow jones industrials. S p is also lower, nasdaq getting hit the hardest. We will be right back. Are rising together. Were invested in creating the worlds first stateoftheart drone testing facility. Which marks the start of our nations first 50mile unmanned flight corridor. And allows us to attract the worlds top drone talent. 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Liz weve touched upon all these things, north korea, immigration and President Trumps comments on nfl players protesting during the National Anthem maybe dominating the headlines, but none of these controversies has been able to derail the administration from its focus on tax reform. The white house preparing as we speak to outline its comprehensive tax cut plan within 7 the hours, right 72 hours, right, charlie . Allegedly. I believe it when i see it, but heres what we do know about this plan. Be nice if it was sooner rather than later, but we take what we can get around here. The outline will likely show a Corporate Tax rate being cut down to around 20 from 35 . I think thats in flux. I mean, the president thats what were hearing from the house and senate leadership. President trump has said behind the scenes that he wants a 15 rate. Look for it to start at 15. Thats not out of the ordinary, if they start it at 15, but well see wednesday. Liz you start at your ultimate, and then you kind of right, thats what i would think. The whisper number were hearing the 20, dont be surprised if the number that comes out in this plan as, i guess, an outline is 15. Thats pretty good, by the way. That would be a huge boost to the markets. Blueprint will likely show the top rate, and this has been out there, you know, trump ran on this during the campaign, it was a plan proposed by Arthur Laffer and larry kudlow and steve moore, top rate going from 39 percent to 35 percent. Again, this is individuals. It goes from seven brackets to three. So a tax simplification. Liz we need that. Excuse me . Liz we need that. We need simplification. Heres whats going to to be really interesting. One of the loopholes that we hear that are going to be taken out on the individual side which should cause a huge ruckus, but this is where the gop is leaning. When you talk to people on the hill, gop is clearly leaning to eliminate the state and local liz oh, thats going to be so [laughter] and it kills me too because i live in new york state, and we get crushed with state and local taxes. Liz i get new jersey, new york city me too. Youre preaching to the choir. So thats going to be a fight. Now, i wonder if they come out with that. I know the leadership is leaning that way. Paul ryan and some of the other Mitch Mcconnell. Listen, theyre not from new york, theyre from wisconsin and West Virginia respectively liz Mitch Mcconnell kentucky, im sorry. So, you know, these are not states with state income taxes, right . And city income taxes that are onerous like ours. So they may take, try to take this out. I think if youre a republican congressman from new york, new jersey liz oh, theyll have a fit. Theyre going to boycott. Liz all right peter king said no way, right . Liz you cant. And art laffer said leave those and put in a carbon tax. He seemed to be fine with it. He said that on can cavutos show. I didnt see it. I would agree with that. This is going to be a liz gotta raise revenue. You have to raise revenue, people. We have to pay for this. Liz, heres whats going to be interesting. Where the fight the fights over the loopholes, and this is where this thing could get bogged down and delayed. Will businesses, will companies be able to expense Interest Payments on debt, right . You cant do that now. Its a break, you know . If you want to issue a lot of debt, can you expense that . We dont know. This is a big loophole which well have to see. Charitable deductions, i cant imagine theyre going to take that out to. Liz larry kudlow said keep those in and keep the mortgage deduction in. But screw new york. Gary cohn, who used to work at goldman sachs. Well see. I believe it when i see it. But you could see how this thing could get bogged down like health care. By the way, your last guest was fascinating liz Charles Sullivan. On the business side of the nfl. Im going to have a column on this momentarily. I think its on foxbusiness. Com right now. The average trump voter correlates pretty closely to the average nfl viewer. Liz yes. They are hurting liz and if they leave im just telling you, i have no problem with one knee. Its an education presentation. By the way, its not the worst protest expression liz i dont think theyre protesting the military. Theyre not protesting the anthem, theyre using it as a venue which is not appropriate. Theyre not burning flags. I think thats a legitimate protest. The fans dont, and youre biting the hand that feeds you. Anyway, its on foxbusiness. Com. Liz but Charlie Sullivan said he and his family who were owners would not have fired them. But he also said when they figure out the economics, theyre going to stop. Liz yes. Theyll come [laughter] theyll find a different venue maybe. Good to see you, charlie, thank you very much. Closing bell, were six minutes away. Coming up, the number one trade you should be making right now before the Third Quarter is done and dusted. Thats according to art hogan coming up, our good friend with 12 billion in his firms assets. Think your Large Cap Equity Fund has exposure to Energy Infrastructure mlps . Think again. Its time to shake up your lineup. The alerian mlp etf can diversify your equity portfolio and add potential income. Bring amlp into the game. Before investing, consider the Funds Investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses. Read the prospectus carefully at alpsfunds. Com amlp liz i had an idea. My team had an idea. Lets kick off the last weeks of the month and the quarter on wall street, with one idea. Where should you put your money right now . We bring in Wunderlich Securities chief Market Strategist art hogan for that. Boy, this is amazing. Were wrapping up the quarter already, going into the fourth quarter, tell me what should people be looking at . Well, liz, we spend most of this show talking about unsafe the world has to then, geopolitical hot spots and north korea iran, how that will hit off. One things you might not know of, they make the drones america uses. This company is coming into its own. When you look and spend, it will go up, one thing you can be sure of, what will be increased in the budget is defense spending. I dont think just the u. S. But across the world. One of the more exciting places new Security Systems that arent manned this is one of the greatest ideas we come up with the research department. We think Going Forward it will be a great idea. Liz a lot of viewers havent heard of this name, kratos defense and secured solutions. Ktos. Where is it looking to go . I can tell you this, coming out with entire new line, phase 3, supposed to come out in 2019. Looks like theyre pushing it toward 2018. Unmanned air force planes or drones, not putting people in harms way. Do surveillance work and recognizance work. Defense system of the future. So that theyre looking to continue to grow here domestically internationally. I think its a great idea. [closing bell rings] liz front page of the New York Times of, that exact story. Drones. You have to figure it out. Art hogan. I will send it over to after the bell. Melissa new threats out of north korea sinking stocks. The dow ending down better than 53 points. Nasdaq hit the hardest as as tech titans loselouser is. Im melissa francis. David im david asman. Glad you could join us. Here is what else were covering for you in a very busy hour. A big week for tax reform and health care as the clock is ticking. New details what the president is calling, a quote, totally finalized plan, including the largest tax cuts in our history. Music to melissa and my ears. As the Republican Leadership in the senate tries to push through