Transcripts For FBC Varney Company 20240714

You very soon. Theres this. Another College Cheating scandal. It seems some wealthy people transferred control of their children to other less wealthy people so they could claim Financial Aid from colleges. Again, big story. Full details coming up. The market heading lower after a series of china trade tweets from President Trump. Hes disappointed that china has not yet bought our Agricultural Products and hes speculating that china is waiting to see who wins in 2020 before making a deal. Not a good idea, he says, because when he wins, it will be a very tough deal or no deal at all. So look at this. We are going to be down, what, over 100 points on the dow industrials, down about 16, a half percentage point on the s p, and the nasdaq getting close to a 1 decline. We are off all across the board. Then theres beyond meat. Okay, sales quadrupled but investors were shocked that the company will issue another 3. 25 million shares that dilutes existing shareholder value and down goes beyond meat, 15 to the downside. We have a lot to cover. Here we go. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart theres the white house. Moments from now, the president will head to virginia to mark the 400th anniversary of the First Legislative Assembly in jamestown. We expect him to talk to reporters. He could talk about baltimore, china trade, the democrat debate tonight. When he speaks, you will see it right here. Take a look at the share price of capital one financial. Heres that big data breach coming into effect. Its affected tens of millions of companies. Grady trimble is with us. Take me through it. What happened here . Reporter its basically what you said. Investigators say a woman in seattle singlehandedly got all this data, addresses, dates of birth, bank account information, even Social Security numbers. 100 Million People in the u. S. Affected. Capital one says six million more in canada. These are people who either applied for a credit card or had a credit card with capital one since 2005. The good news if there is any, capital one says they dont think the hacker used the info maliciously or to commit any sort of fraud. Stuart but it sounds like the allegation is it was an inside job. The lady arrested had worked with amazons cloud. Right. Between 2015 and 2016, her resume says she worked for amazon specifically as an engineer with that Cloud Service they provide and thats apparently where capital one put all this data and thats possibly how she got in. Stuart so if it was an inside job, if it was, thats the allegation here, perhaps that is not such a serious thing for the security of the cloud. It sounds like it could be a oneoff if thats the case. We reached out to amazon for comment. We still havent heard back. Stuart amazon is down below 1900 now. Okay. Its off 1 . Perhaps in reaction to this. Capital one are down about 14 , i think. Grady, that was your first appearance with Varney Company. It was. Stuart pretty good. Thank you. Stuart that was a pretty good story. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Im going to switch gears, another big story. Some wealthy parents using a loophole to get Financial Aid for their collegebound children. The parents transfer legal guardianship so the children can claim Financial Aid. Economist and University Professor peter morici is with us. This is obviously another black eye for Higher Education, isnt it . Well, a black eye for the parents but also a black eye for the universities. We have to ask ourselves what are universities doing that begets this kind of behavior. The answer is charging upper and middle class families extortionary tuition. Basically its to maintain an elegant lifestyle for faculty and propagate administratives at a pace akin to cancer. They arent run very well, they dont educate people very well, they charge people who make say 200,000 a year extraordinary tuition, they force them to mortgage their homes, sacrifice their retirements and in many cases, sacrifice the education of younger siblings to pay outrageous tuition. We have to start asking ourselves what are colleges doing that drive decent people to such extraordinary actions. Stuart good question. Im going to move on from there. President trump going after baltimore in a new tweet. Im going to show the audience. Here we go. Baltimores numbers are the worst in the United States on crime and the economy, billions of dollars have been pumped in over the years to no avail. The money was stolen or wasted. Ask Elijah Cummings where it went. He should investigate himself with his Oversight Committee. Peter, you have been an economics professor in nearby college park for many, many years. Whats your reaction to this . Well, baltimore is a terribly depressed city. Its despicable conditions. Its been terribly corrupt. They just lost their mayor to corruption. Elijah cummings says i go out and fight for my constituents every day. No, he goes out and attacks donald trump every day. I dont see him fighting to clean up baltimore. You know, the real problem is the worstrun cities in america, the worst sewers are being run by democrats like Elijah Cummings. I wish that donald trump was a little more gentile in his language but the question is would anybody have listened. The reality is the worst conditions are in places like chicago, new york, some of the smaller cities in the northeast, all run by democrats. Stuart hes focused attention on the abysmal performance of big cities run by democrats for decades. Thats now his issue. Ride the l train in new york. This guy wants to drive ubers off the streets. You dont see our good mayor in new york getting on the l train, do you . Hes in a limousine. I will never forget my First Encounter with a new york liberal of high rank was when a justice of the Supreme Court quit when i was a graduate student and ran for governor. He showed up at my university to speak in a maroon cadillac. I said gee, its so nice to see a democrat show up in a chevy. Stuart good story. Very poignant, i will give you that. See you again soon. Got to move on. Look at this. Share price of beyond meat, now, this is a stock thats been on a tear since its ipo but its not on a tear today. Maybe to the downside. Its going to open sharply lower after saying it will sell more shares. Joining us, market watcher dennis gartman. Can you explain why issuing more shares causes that kind of selloff, dennis . Well, its just diluting the amount of the value of the corporation itself to the shareholders that currently hold it. It is a despicable decision, almost tantamount to the despicable decision made last week by the founder of the company to sell 700 million worth of shares before this announcement. I think something has to be done about that sort of thing. I think its despicable. I think it borders upon the criminal. Stuart whoa, whoa, dennis, this is not like you, mr. Gartman. You have used the word despicable i think three times. Thats pretty strong stuff from a guy like you. Well, it is. What has happened here at beyond meat, first of all, beyond meat made no sense to me to start with. Its valuation has become even more than that of smuckers, kroger. That made no sense. But the markets can remain illogical far longer than anyone can remain solvent. You reached an illogical situation several weeks ago, but to have the founder of the company sell, an unusual circumstance, 700 million worth of his own shares in the company before this announcement was made, i think is borderline, i will use the term again, borderline criminal. Im not a lawyer. I would suspect, however, the s. E. C. Will take a look at whats gone on here. If they dont, they should. Stuart look, im very sorry im going to cut this short but weve got a jampacked news day. Thank you, as always, for being with us, mr. Gartman. We always appreciate you being here. Thank you, dennis. Thank you for having me. Stuart two dow components reported early today. Number one, procter gamble. Thats a Big Name Company and its way up. Profits were up, the stocks gaining 3. 7 already. Merck, they reported higher profit. Im not sure about the intricate details of their report there, but the stock is up 2. 5 . Now take a look at the home builders, because okay. I guess premarket. Anyway, get rid of that. We just got the latest read on home prices. Susans going to tell us. Susan weakness, april to may. Talking about the k. Schiller, 20city index up. 1 , missing estimates but guess what, if you take a look at it from the weakest annual growth rate, looking at 2. 4 , weakest since august 2012 on an annual basis. I know thats how you like to look at it. Las vegas, phoenix and tampa reported the highest year over year gains among the 20 cities. This is interesting because we are sitting at threeyear lows for Mortgage Rates as we talked about week after week, but thats not spurring i guess price gains when it comes to housing. There might be a backlog of inventory to get rid of. You might have to cut your prices to excel them. Stuart the Housing Market has not taken off the way i thought it would take off. Millenials are not buying, apparently. That seems to be part of it. I dont get it. Its a cultural thing. Susan affordability thing. Stuart check futures. Down over 100 points for the dow, down 15, about a half percent for the s p, down threequarters of 1 for the nasdaq. Look at netflix. Its doubling down on original content. Going to spend more than a half billion dollars on just three movies. The stock is down some more, 328. You may want to think twice before ordering food from a delivery service. This is going to get you worried. A new study shows nearly 30 of drivers are dipping into your order before it makes it to your door. Now you know why i never order food for delivery. Ashley im right there with you. Stuart we are waiting for sound from President Trump. Hes getting ready to leave the white house. As soon as we get that sound and we are confident we will get it, you will get it, too. Varney company tuesday morning, just getting started. If your gums bleed when you brush, you may have gingivitis. And the clock could be ticking towards bad breath, receding gums, and possibly. Tooth loss. Help turn back the clock on gingivitis with parodontax. Leave bleeding gums behind. Parodontax. A cockroach can survive heresubmerged ttle guy. Underwater for 30 minutes. Wow. Yeah. Not getting in today. Terminix. Defenders of home. Stuart theres a whole slew of Companies Reporting their earnings today, this morning. Some of them are out already. We have altria, the tobacco company. They did report higher profits but the stock is down a few cents, down 40 cents. There you have it. Eli lilly, profit getting a boost from its diabetes drug but thats not helping the stock. Trulicity, thats it. They got some boost from that but the stock is down just 20 cents at 108. 51. Weve got the dow industrials looking to go down about 100 points at the opening bell. Whats this story on huawei . Susan you know its on the u. S. Trade blacklist, but huawei, despite this continued u. S. Campaign, apparently sales jumped more than 58 billion in the First Six Months of this year. Its being boosted by growth in its smartphone business because they are the second largest smartphone shipper, overtaking apple last year. Of course, the 5g network as well helping them. Stuart 58 up. Susan no, 58 billion. Stuart oh, thank you. Susan which is big. Stuart show me the share price of beyond meat. I know you have seen this a couple times this morning but look, its down now 15 . I want to bring in dr. Mark siegel. I got a question for him. Plantbased or real meat, which is better for you . You tell me. Plantbased is much lower in saturated fats. Theoretically, a veggie burger is much better for you and you know what, the industry is burgeoning. Over the past year, theres a 10 increase in plantbased diet plantbased food. Burgers is up 2 . Now, still, overall, the market, 6. 4 million stuart okay. Veggie burgers are selling. Stuart you are a doctor. I want to know which is better for me, real meat or fake meat . Can you make that judgment for me . If you make it in your kitchen and your wife makes it for you, and she uses beans and lentils and beets, and sprouts, and avocado, im voting thumbs up. But if you buy it in the freezer, then you end up with half a gram of salt and you end up with chemicals and processed foods and it aint as good for you. So i hate the processed foods. It causes you to gain weight. Its unhealthy. The salt content is bad. Saturated fat. Stuart the beyond meat product that i can buy in a supermarket, you say that that is not as good for you, its not good for you, its bad for you in a certain sense, beyond meat is bad for you, you are making that judgment. Frn i believe thats true. But be careful what you trap me into here. Im not voting for burgers either. Veggie burgers are not what they are cracked up to be. Thats your point. If you go to a fast food chain and buy a veggie burger or go into your supermarket freezer and buy a veggie burger, you are getting a lot of unhealthy chemicals and salt. You may want to stick to your salmon toast in the morning. Stuart two ounces of smoked salmon in the morning. Thats healthy . Not bad. Where did the salmon come from . If it swam in from norway its pretty good. It was probably from a cage in the atlantic ocean. You heard about fish farming . I have. But i love wild salmon. I hope you get wild salmon. Heres the point. Its all about processed foods. The processed veggie burgers are bad for you. Cory booker, i apologize, i know you are vegan. I know you eat the veggie burgers. Kamala harris is doing a lot of vegetarian food. Im for vegetarian food but make it in your own kitchen. I love beet burgers. I love beans and lentils. Ashley having tried the fake meat, i like it, i have got to say. Whats the vote here . Susan im a carnivore but i dont understand the salmon with cream cheese. That makes no sense to me. Stuart we got your point of view. Im okay. Not processed, not salt. Stuart dr. Siegel, thank you very much. Good stuff. Take a look at futures. We are still down triple digits at the opening bell. President trump is speaking to reporters. Hes doing it right now. Before boarding marine one. When hes done, you will hear what he had to say. Well be right back. I dont know whats going on. Ive done all sorts of research, read Earnings Reports, looked at chart patterns. Ive even built my own historic trading model. And youre still not sure if you want to make the trade . Exactly. Sounds like a case of analysis paralysis. Is there a cure . Td ameritrades trade desk. They can help gut check your strategies and answer all your toughest questions. Sounds perfect. See, your stress level was here and i got you down to here, ive done my job. Call for a strategy gut check with td ameritrade. Stuart President Trump is speaking to reporters right now. Ashley, give me some bullet points. Ashley he wants the fed to make a large cut and right now, says the president. He says look, you know, he says that the fed acted inappropriately and that they made his job more difficult because of that. They moved far too severely, he says, far too early, put me at a disadvantage. Says he wants to see them make that large rate cut. He talks a little bit about baltimore, also says i am disappointed in the fed. I think we got that message. Goes on to talk about baltimore and corruption. Stuart we will figure out more later when weve got the full ashley some of the headlines. Stuart tonight is the first democrat debate, it will be in detroit. Those are the people who will be on that debate stage. Joining us now, laura cox, chair of the Michigan Republican party. This is going to be in detroit, michigan. Theres a direct correlation between detroit and whats going on in baltimore. Is he going to make you look bad . No, not at all. Under President Trumps policies, the economy in michigan is strong and detroit is doing well, and we are really excited to show off the city and we are really proud of whats happening here in michigan under the president s policies. Stuart youre happy the democrats are going to debate in your state today and tomorrow . Absolutely. I think its really important that people listen to the socialist policies that they are going to talk about tonight on the stage. I think its really important that people understand the difference between all the wonderful things the president s doing and all the kind of crazy Different Things that the democrats are going to talk about how they want to change the direction of our country. Stuart you happy that cnn is hosting with don lemon as one of the moderators . Well, i think thats going to make it very interesting for sure. Stuart is it going to make it good for you . No, i mean, you know, listen, i think its really important that people talk about how wonderful the policies of the president are making our economy here in michigan. I think thats important to people when they talk about how it affects their families, how it affects their businesses, and how it affects their coworkers and their friends, and we have a lot to show and a lot of good things are happening in michigan. Unemployment is at record lows, wages are on the increase, minorities and women are surging in the policies under the president , they are doing very well in the economy and we are just really excited to talk about it here. I think people will see a stark difference. Stuart just wait until Bernie Sanders says the working class are being decimated. Good one. I will be watching for that. Im actually going to stay up late to watch it. Thank you for joining us. Ashley wow. Stuart im sure we will see you soon. Thank you. Now check out the futures market. Just a couple minutes before the market opens, we are going to be down triple digits for the dow, and down close to 1 for the nasdaq. Well be back with the opening bell. Dear tech, lets talk. We have a pretty Good Relationship. Youve done a lot of good for the world. But i feel like you have the potential to do so much more. Can we build ai without bias . How do we bake security into everything we do . We need tech that helps people understand each other. That understands my business. Weve got some work to do. And we need your help. We need your support. Lets expect more from technology. Lets put smart to work. While managing your type 2 diabetes why think about your heart . Lower a1c helps, but type 2 diabetes still increases my risk of a fatal cardiovascular event. And thats why theres jardiance the first type 2 diabetes pill that offers a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit for adults who also have known Heart Disease. 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That leads to oversized moves to the upside and also to the downside. Be careful. Stuart be careful indeed. That was mike murphy, one of our guys, on the show a lot, and he got it absolutely right about beyond meat. Look at it now, down nearly 16 . Here to take his victory lap is mike murphy. You wouldnt puch touch it with tenfoot pole, would you . You just have to be very careful, its a lot better today down 16 than yesterday. Stuart that fear of missing out on a brand new industry, you want thats what i always feel like. Dont chase. Stuart okay. All right. Stay right there. Here we go. The market is about to open. The opening bell, trading has begun. We are down 75 points from the getgo. Down 88. Down 88. There you have it. We are off about onethird of 1 for the dow industrials. Now down 92. The s p 500, wheres that . Moving quickly, please. Down half a percentage point there. As for the nasdaq, whats that doing . It is down threequarters of 1 . We are down across the board. The yield on the tenyear treasury this morning is 2. 05 . So theres money going into treasury securities. Gold, 1441 per ounce, up eight bucks. Oil, 57 a barrel, up 27 cents. The share price of capital one down, i believe, down significantly. Big data breach affected tens of millions of customers. There you have it. Down 6 on capital one at 91. Is there any way, murphy, of assessing their liability with a huge data breach like this . No. I dont think there is. There will, at some point more information will come out. Right now the stock is selling off just on the fact there will be some liability that analysts havent baked into their numbers. Susan capital one says the Investigation Continues and the incident is expected to cost 100 million to 150 million. A week ago, equifax paid out 700 million to those who had their data stolen. You think it will be higher than that . I think if they knew where it was, they still wouldnt be investigating. Susan good point. How did Amazon Web Services play into it. Stuart we should also say this looks like it is alleged to be an inside job. A woman has been arrested in seattle. She allegedly opened up amazons cloud to get this information so an inside job rather than a threat to the security of the cloud. Susan the numbers are much smaller, too, by the way. Stuart they are indeed. Very true. We are down 21 on amazon, below 1900 a share. Move on. The rivals uber and lyft, staff shakeups at both companies. Both stocks down. Whats going on . Susan uber cut 400 of its 1200 marketing staff. Also, this follows the departure of its c. O. O. Just after the ipo. Also, lyft, by the way, losing their chief operating officer as well. He came from tesla and you know, some say look, 400 out of the thousands that you employ, not a big deal, especially when you are going through this shall we say transition right now to find new revenue streams. Stuart that was another fomo where fear of missing out on this brand new industry, i was going to buy uber. The stock is trading below its ipo price. Its trading a lot below where they were talking about pricing the ipo before it came out 120 billion. Stuart, this is changing its creating an entire new industry that i think will be there for a long time. Im an owner of the stock. I think you can buy it right here. Stuart you are an owner of uber . I am an owner of uber. Stuart okay. All right. Well remember that. Write it down. Stuart show the big board, please. Now we are down about 140 points. There you have it. Down half a percentage point. Getting perilously close to dropping below 27,000. Now, the content wars heating up. Netflix will spend 520 million on three, count them, three movies. Whats going on with this . Lot of money. Theres a lot of money chasing good content because if you have good content you get more eyeballs which leads to more money. Is 520 too high . Is 422 too high . Whats the right number . We dont know. Remember, disney is coming into this space and netflix needs to have a reason to keep charging you. Stuart disney is doing extremely well. Susan they own 45 of the global box office, as we talked about yesterday, with disney breaking a record in august already, 7. 67 billion. For netflix to spend 500 million, thats what you have to pay up to get the big names. 174 million for the irishman and also you bring in how much do you have to pay for content to get eyeballs . And getting the headlines that makes you say netflix has this movie out, maybe i need to sign up. Thats part of it here. They dont necessarily have to make a lot of money from this 520 investment. They need to have you want to become a member or stay a member. Stuart for me to put it out there and say 500 million for three movies. Its called a commercial. Unpaid commercial. Check that big board. We are down, im not going to say we are stabilized. Down 130 points, 27,080. Strong sales growth at procter gamble. The share price reflects that. Its up nearly 4 . Thats a big company. Big gain. Higher Consumer Spending helps mastercards profit, although the stock is actually down five bucks. Dish, well, they lost fewer pay tv subscribers than wall street expected. Nonetheless, the stock is down nine cents. Not such a rosy forecast from xerox, a stock we have almost forgotten about. It is down 4 . Now then, apple. It reports after the bell today. This is a major company, obviously, big interest in its earnings. My question is would you buy the stock before you see the earnings . Hoping for a pop . No. Stuart okay. However, not hoping for a pop, so to trade on the Earnings Report i dont think is a good thing to do because i dont expect a huge move one way or the other, up or down. But if you believe apple is a Great Company to own as i do for the long term, you can buy it right now, you can buy it after the earnings. Its not going to have too much of an impact. This is something that i think with the cloud that they have covering all of their phone and computers and all their different ways that they can generate revenue now, its a Great Company to own. Susan we are looking at the Third Straight quarter of declining iphone revenue and we are looking at revenue of 52 billion. How fast is services growing to take over and help lift the revenue fall we are seeing from iphone sales. What also will be important because i will be speaking to the cfo at 4 00 p. M. After the earnings are released, is what does it mean for 5g in the future. They are not expected to release their 5g phone until 2020. They just bought up intel 5g chip business. How will that impact into their, i guess their phones in the future . Will they need qualcomm anymore . Stuart thats another fomo, isnt it . Here comes 5g and i have the fear of missing out of 5g. Susan well, you should. Because it is the future. Stuart think i should own apple . Apple is a company that has proven over the long haul. This isnt something that is a new industry like beyond meat, whether its going to take off or not take off. Apple has proven themselves. They pay a nice dividend. They are generating a ton of cash. Its a Great Company to own because they will innovate. Stuart Facebook Says libra, the Digital Currency they are planning on, it could help Law Enforcement. Can you explain that one . Ashley yeah, because as it stands in the crypto world, theres no record of the transaction or the ownership of that transaction, who owns what. Thats kind of the wild, wild west. Of course, facebook trying to sell this libra idea says you know what, we can show you not only what transaction was made but who made it. If authorities want to track down someone they believe could be Money Laundering or some other criminal activities which steve mnuchin, treasury secretary, has been warning about, you can give them the information to track down the people making these transactions. A lot of people use crypto just because they dont want people to know who they are and what theyre doing. Stuart thats an important hedge on the whole idea of the crypto, falling in line with regulators. This is facebooks attempt stuart i will move on to housing. There are fewer all cash buyers in the Housing Market these days than just a couple years back. Lauren simonetti has this story now. Why is this . Why fewer all cash people . Lauren foreign buyers. Thats probably the biggest reason. That number, the foreign purchasers of u. S. Homes, down 36 in the past year. Four in ten of those foreign buyers pay all cash. Stuart really. Lauren i actually think this is going to be good for the Housing Market because if you have fewer buyers paying all cash, its more competitive for regular people like me trying to apply for a mortgage and get a home. Instead of saying spring is christmas, maybe because it takes a couple of months for a Mortgage Application to close, that fall will be a nice time this year to see that surge in housing activity. Not to mention rates are coming down. Stuart thats very important. Rates are indeed coming down. Real fast, you expect the Housing Market to pick up soon. Explain yourself. Sure. I think because of Technology Businesses that venture capitalists like myself invest in, renting a home has gotten a lot easier. Its more costeffective to go out from your phone, rent a home, as the costs change supply and demand, as theres more people looking to rent, it will become more expensive versus owning a home and more people will go voting with their pocketbooks to go and own a home rather than renting a home. Stuart hold on. The millenial sitting next to you may have a different opinion. Susan i agree. I just want to talk about Interest Rates because we are going to hear from the president in two minutes time but whats circulating right now is the fact hes calling for a big Interest Rate cut tomorrow. We know the fed is pretty much baked in, they will cut a quarter point. I think hes looking for something about 50 basis points with only 20 of the market expecting that at this time. Stuart you did spehe did speak reporters as he left the white house on his way to an appointment later on today. He did speak to reporters. Weve got the tape and will play it in just a moment. Susan is right, he did say a lot about pressuring the fed to really lower Interest Rates significantly. Ashley hes not happy with the fed, as we know. Today he gave them another shotgun blast. Stuart how the market reacts to that. Susan this is a big deal that we havent seen this type of move in a decades time. Stuart the president wants it to be a big move. Who knows, how many seconds . 15 seconds. We will play the president. Real quick, a big fan of Varney Company in knoxville, tennessee, ruth celebrating her 103rd birthday. Huge fan. Stuart ruth woodby, congratulations. Heres the president of the United States. The economy is doing fantastically well. We hear people over in china right now [ inaudible ] well see what happens. Were going to make a great deal or were not going to make a deal at all. Lot of great things are happeni happening. Our country has gone way up in terms of [ inaudible ]. Were the number one economy in the world. Weve picked up tremendously in the last two years since ive been here. A lot of great things are happening. Lot of really great things are happening. The economy is through the roof. Hopefully we will get [ inaudible ]. Well see what happens. We have a lot of good things happeni happening. I just got through speaking with the department of commerce and we have interest in our country like weve never had before. Reporter [ inaudible ]. Baltimore has been very badly mishandled for many years. As you know, congressman cummings has been there for a long time, had a very iron hand on it. Its a corrupt city, theres no question about it. All you have to do is look at the facts. The government has pumped in millions and millions of dollars to no avail. Baltimore is an example of what corrupt government leads to. Billions of dollars have been given. I feel so sorry for the people of baltimore. If they ask me, we will get involved. We are already involved [ inaudible ] i think representative cummings and his Oversight Committee, needs to do oversight on baltimore. [ inaudible ] billions and billions of dollars from china. [ inaudible ] a lot of companies are moving out of china. The United States is doing phenomenally well. Were taking in billions of dollars from china. Our farmers have been really targeted by china. I love the farmers. I will say that. [ inaudible ] i took the money china was paying us and gave it to the farmers. In my opinion, far too early and far too severely put me at a disadvantage but nothings going to stop us, but the fed could have made it a lot easier. I would like to see a large cut and i would like to see it immediate immediately. [ inaudible ] i also think that had they not done it, as good as weve done, we have the alltime high in the history of the stock market, i think i would have been 10,000 points higher and i think i would have been in the 4s in gdp. President obama had zero Interest Rates. We have normalized Interest Rates. With zero Interest Rates anything happens. Reporter [ inaudible ]. Im not talking about that. Im very disappointed in the fed. I think they acted too quickly by far and i think ive been proven right. They were wrong. The fed is often wrong. The fed is often wrong. Reporter [ inaudible ]. The Washington Post calls Mitch Mcconnell what . The Washington Post. Mitch mcconnell loves our country. Hes done a great job. Hes trying to pass an infrastructure bill. To fix our highways and our roadways. Mitch mcconnell has got more judges than probably any, i mean, in all fairness, with my help, but as a combination, we are up 179 federal judges. Nobodys ever seen anything like that. And we will end up having the highest percentage of judges [ inaudible ]. Mitch mcconnell is a man that knows less about russia and russias influence than even donald trump and i know nothing. I think its a horrible thing [ inaudible ] for the benefit of amazon, the Washington Post is fake news just like the New York Times is fake news. Its put there for the benefit the Washington Post of amazon. Thats my opinion. I think its a disgrace. I didnt read it. They actually said that, that Mitch Mcconnell is an asset of russia . They ought to be ashamed of themselves and they ought to apologize. Reporter are you alienating reporter the democratic debate tonight and tomorrow night, [ inaudible ] . I think right now, i am watching i think right now it will be sleepy joe. I think. I feel hell limp across the line. Thats what i think. What i think doesnt mean anything. I think hes off his game by a lot but i think personally it will be sleepy joe. Reporter [ inaudible ]. I think im helping myself because im pointing out the tremendous corruption in baltimore and other democratic run cities. All you have to do is look at the [ inaudible ]. Well see what happens. I think im helping myself. Ill tell you what. The white house and myself and letters and emails and phone calls, i have received more phone calls than i think on any other subject of people from baltimore and other cities run by democrats begging me to get involved. Those people are living in hell in baltimore. We have a large africanamerican population and they really appreciate what im doing and they have let me know it. They really appreciate it. By the way, unemployment for African Americans is the lowest its been, the best numbers in the history of our country. The lowest in the history of our country. But these calls from baltimore thanking me so much, all the money thats been spent over 20 years has been stolen and wasted by people like Elijah Cummings. Reporter [ inaudible ]. Well, i have a great relationsh relationship. I have a fantastic relationship with the president. Hes a great gentleman. He was here, as you know. By the way, i think hes doing a great job. Its a tough job. But i think the president is doing a fantastic job. Hes a wonderful man with a wonderful family. Were going to work on an agreement with brazil. Brazils a big trading partner. They charge us a lot of tariffs but other than that, we love the relationship. Reporter [ inaudible ]. The what . Reporter [ inaudible ] who apparently might have been poisoned. Have you heard about that . Ive heard about it. I dont know about it. But ill find out about it. This is new. I heard about it last night. Reporter [ inaudible ]. Well, John Ratcliffe is a brilliant man. He is a wonderful person. I spoke to him long before about this, long before, months ago, i spoke to him long before the mueller fiasco. That was a fiasco. I think probably nobody in the history of capitol hill has embarrassed themselves like what mueller did to himself and to the democrats. John ratcliffe, i spoke to him about this for a long time. Hes a very talented guy, hes a strong man. Its what we need in this position. Reporter [ inaudible ]. I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world. Ive known him almost all my Business Life because i had to deal with him in new york. Al sharpton. Hes a racist. Hes a racist. But when people let me explain to you. What ive done for African Americans in two and a half years, no president has been able to do anything like it. Unemployment at the lowest level in the history of our country for African Americans. Nobody can beat that. You look at poverty levels, theyre doing better than theyve ever done before. So many things. Opportunity zones, criminal Justice Reform. President obama couldnt get it done. It was done really the biggest beneficiary probably is African Americans. I got criminal Justice Reform done. President obama couldnt get it done. No other president was able to get it done. What ive done for african america americans, no president i would say has done. I will say this. They are so happy because i get the calls, they are so happy at what i have been able to do in baltimore and other democraticrun corrupt cities, the money has been stolen, what theyve done. Its been wasted and its been stolen. Billions and billions of dollars. And the Africanamerican Community is so thankful, theyve called me and theyve said finally, somebody is telling the truth. Reporter do you think there will be a trade deal with china before november 2020 . Well, i think the biggest problem, china would love to wait and just hope, they hope, its not going to happen, i hope, but they would just love, if i got defeated. So they could deal with somebody like Elizabeth Warren or Sleepy Joe Biden or any of these people, because then they would be allowed and able to continue to rip off our country like theyve been doing for the last 30 years. China has been taking out hundreds of billions of dollars a year with our country and what ive done with the tariffs is number one, they had the worst year theyve had in 27 years yesterday. Wall street journal. The worst year in 27 years. Companies are leaving china by the thousands. Their prices are coming down and i will tell you this. China is dying to make a deal with me. But whether or not ill do it, its up to me, its not up to them. Reporter just this week, what are you looking for china to give you in negotiations . I think china is willing to give up a lot but that doesnt mean im willing to accept it. I think if china had their wish, they would wait until after the election, they will pray that trump loses and then theyll make a deal with a stiff, somebody that doesnt know what theyre doing like obama and biden, like all of the president s before, because what theyve done is they picked our pockets as a nation. Thats not happening with trump. Reporter [ inaudible ]. Thats okay. Well, i think if thats the case, i would be shocked. But if thats the case, theyre fighting against their people. Because the africanamerican people have been calling the white house, they have never been so happy as what a president has done, not only the lowest unemployment in history for African Americans, not only opportunity zones for the biggest beneficiary, the inner cities, and not only criminal Justice Reform, but theyre so happy that i pointed out the corrupt politics of baltimore. Its filthy dirty, its so horrible, and they are happy as hell. So you may have a couple of politicians boycott, but its all a fix. Its all a fix. The fact is africanamerican people love the job im doing because im working for them. Im not working for the politicians. Reporter [ inaudible ]. Oh, absolutely. What he should do, what Elijah Cummings should do is he should take his Oversight Committee, bring them down to baltimore, and really study the billions and billions of dollars thats been stolen, thats been wasted, thats been stolen. They ought to take that beautiful waste of an Oversight Committee, go down to baltimore and other democraticrun cities and take a look, see if you can find the billions that have been stolen. Reporter [ inaudible ]. My relationship with kim jongun is a very good one, as im sure youve seen. Well see what happens. I cant tell you whats going to happen. I know one thing. If my opponent was president , if she won, you would be in a major war right now with north korea. We are nowhere close. So well see. I have a Good Relationship with him. I like him, he likes me. Well see what happens. Reporter [ inaudible at the right time i will visit. The peel of baltimore are thankful people. They let us know by thousands of people. Finally somebody is pointing out how corrupt baltimore is. How billions and billions of dollars have been stolen. The ones that like it, best im doing, africanamerican voters. Those are the ones. Thank you. Stuart there you have it. President trump, impromptu press conference. Bullet points, here is what he said. He is defending his baltimore tweets. He is simply pointing out the tremendous corruption in baltimore. He wants to know where all the billions of dollars actually went. On trade he says were moving very well with china. Many companies are moving out of china. China is under pressure. On the fed, he says i want a large rate cut and i want it now. The stock market would be 10,000 points higher if the fed had not raise the rates back in december. Lets deal with that, mike murphy, he wants a rate cut. What do you say. I think he is getting a rate cut. I was live on the air when he called for a rate cut months ago. I thought it was way out of line based on Economic Statistics at the time. Looks like President Trump was correct calling for that. It lookings like he will get it. I dont think he will get 50 the big rate cut he is looking for and i think what is the economy needs right now. Stuart trade with china, he says things are going very well with china. Susan he says china would love to wait until after november 2020. To deal with someone like sleepy joe and get a better deal. Trade negotiators are in shanghai. Looks like theyre Holding Status quo since then. Stuart he also said biden will be the nominee. Ashley he did. He was asked are you watching the debates. Oh, i will watch. I think it will be sleepy joe. The president said i think he is off his game but i think it will be him. He is pulling for sleepy joe apparently. Stuart i have got to say that the main thrust of that impromptu News Conference was baltimore. He was questioned about it consistently. He raised an issue that will resonate for america in 2020. He wants to take a look at why our innercities have had so many billions of dollars invested in them. They are still not where they should be. Ashley two lines. That money has either been wasted or stolen. He repeated that time and again. For the president of the United States wants to help citizens of the United States in baltimore, im all for it. Stuart really. But is the president a racist for wanting to help people . Going after it, if you put it like that going after Elijah Cummings because he is black. Is he racist . No. Stuart i have a monitor with msnbc on it, theyre talking constantly about the president s racist tweets. Every time they mention a tweet, it is called a racist tweet. Susan he calls out someone not white or caucasian. Even though he is pointing out an issue talked about by people in the past including Bernie Sanders. Stuart last word, mike . People in suffering in baltimore have nothing to do with black, white, green or purple. They are u. S. Citizens who are suffering. Anything the president can do he should be helping them. Stuart that is what he has to say. Not very good sound to start with. We cleared it up in the end. Now it is bang, 10 00 eastern time. That means were getting breaking news. The latest reading on Consumer Confidence. This is for the month of june. This is important for the markets and the economy. Do we have ashley still waiting. June was a 15month low. So were hoping, it is estimated we may see a little bit of a rebound. We went from 130 reading in may, to 121 in june that was a 15month low. Were expecting a bounce back to 125, it has not hit the tape. Now it has. Susan there you go. Ashley 135. 7. Stuart that is the number reading. Ashley that is huge. Compared to, sorry, susan. As opposed to the estimates of 125. That blows away what we saw in may. That is a huge rebound. Stuart it is a rebound in confidence . Ashley huge rebound in confidence. Stuart reported literally 50 seconds ago. That could be a negative for the market because it might mean, might mean that the Federal Reserve will be less likely to be keep on cutting rates. Susan losses for the dow was sliced in half. Stuart thats true. Consumer confidence, people earning more money, people having more jobs, the fed is going to act tomorrow. That is pretty much baked in to what is happening i dont know about the second rate cut or thirdrate cut. But if youre an investor, stuart, you have a Strong Economy, people have strong confidence in the economy, you have accommodative fed, it is a good time to be investing, could be the market is read the surge in Consumer Confidence differently than the way i explained it. Because the market is down less than it was before that Consumer Confidence number came out. Could be a Strong Economy what investors want because we now have the Dow Jones Industrial average down 60. We had been down over 100 and this strengthening of the market if you like occurred right after that surge in Consumer Confidence numbers and were still coming back. Now this, forgive me for being extreme but i have to put a label on senator warrens justreleased trade plan. It is a disasterous piece of economic fantasyland, closely connected to the lunacy of the green new deal. Disasterous, lunacy . Okay. Let me back that up. An america under president warren would only trade with nations that comply in full with the paris climate agreement. That means we would have to go back into it. We could only trade with countries that abolish all fossil fuel subsidies. We couldnt do business with any nation that allows any form of child labor. China, india, or fails to guarranty full union rights. Senator warren will be in the debate tonight. Trade plan and all. So will Bernie Sanders. He issued his talking points. He says the working class has been decimated. He is a socialist and blames big corporations. Decimated . Really . Record low unemployment . Jobs for all. Fastrising wages. Like the warren trade plan, bernies economics make no economic sense at all. Mayor pete, he will be also on the stage tonight. He is likely to play the race card or at least try to. White supremacy could be the issue that ends this country. Those are his words. That is one of his talking points. We bring all of this because these candidates are redefining the democrat party. The far left is now its face. Are they going to get away with this hijacking . Tonight Amy Klobuchar will be also on the debate stage. Will her moderate voice be heard . Tomorrow night joe biden heads the lineup. Will he stare down the left . If he does, will he survive the primaries which usually reward the extremes . What were looking at here is a badlysplit party. It will be on full display in these debates this week. For the first time in years i will be watching cnn they are hosting. I find it fascinating to see the left implode. The second hour of Varney Company is going to start now. Okay, sorry, i misunderstood. We got Scott Shellady with us. Almost missed you out there, lad. Very sorry about that. Lets start with senator warrens trade plan. What do you make of it . I would like to see it touted more widely. I think it is, it is fantasy. I dont understand why she wants to sacrifice our own workers . We want to own those things. We dont want child labor, children worked to death. We want environment to be better. We all like those things. For some reason the looney left has to own it. They do crazy things at the expense of our own workers. That is why the paris accord was so bad. India, china could do whatever they wanted. We were the ones paying the penalties. Until they get that through their heads. They are using our own people as pawns to own these nice ideas. That is not right. Stuart scott, stay there, please. I want to bring in phillip wegman, real clear Politics White House reporter. I want to get back to what the president said earlier about his spat with congressman Elijah Cummings. Stay there for a second. Let me roll this tape, so our audience can see it again. Role it please. [inaudible]. I will say this. I think that representative cummings should take his Oversight Committee and start doing oversite on baltimore. He would find out some real things. Stuart he raised an issue here, phillip. That is the performance of democrats who run our inner cities, what do you say . If you talk to some of the president s advisors privately, yes, this has nothing to do with race, instead this is the president going after chairman cummings because of his oversight on the mueller investigation. What President Trump is doing in that clip right now he is again making that argument that this has nothing to do with race. Instead this has to do with chairman cummings spending a lot of time on the russia investigation, rather than, rather than tending to his own business. At the same time though, we do see some prominent republicans Maryland Governor and former rnc chairman Michael Steele saying that, this is too much. They should take away some of the personality of this argument to focus on issues. Stuart i dont get that i really do not get that. The performance of baltimore in recent years, in the last 20 or 30 years, that is just not acceptable. For the president to point it out is very acceptable. Where do you stand on this . I think what is interesting about this attack right now, unlike the ones that he made with, against the squad is that he was able, with that argument to make them the face of the democrat ibb party. He is trying to do somebody here with representative chairman cummings, pointing to what has happened in balt more and arguing this is the type of failed policies that you know, the American Public would return to if they dont elect him again for a second term. That is going to be his argument and i think it is going to be the challenge of democrats on stage to neat to meet it, to show a different Economic Policy with different out comes to counter. This is going to be something that is going to define the debate moving forward. Stuart i would be interested to hear the democrat growth plan. I have never heard one in many, many years. Phillip, stay there for a second. I want to bring back to Scott Shellady. For some reason i will ask you about beyond meat. You knew it was coming, scott, you just knew it. I did, yes. Stuart the stock is way, way down. Where do you stand on this, fake meat, where do you stand . You know what, stuart . There has been a lot of big hullabaloo. The only thing crazierer than the squad, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders is the valuation of beyond meat, right . Theyre not making making that h money. It is a fad and craze, it will die down. It is here to stay just like decaffinated coffee is here to stay or nonalcoholic beer is here to stay. People that dont take alcohol. You could have vegan, vegetarian, have beyond meat at a restaurant. That would be fine. That is all it is. It is just an alternative. It will not wipe away anything. It will not take away from the meat industry. Stuart it will not take over. Has decaffinated coffee taken over the world . No. It is an alternative. People have to settle down to be careful of what the valuation is. Stuart good point, be careful about the valuation. That has gone up 800 since ipo. Scott, good much indeed. All right. Stuart i will talk about Something Else other than fake meat soon. All right. Ashley says the cow guy. Stuart 57 point lower for the dow industrials. We had been down more than 100. Capital one, the stock on your screen. The private information of 106 million customers exposed in a massive data breach. Now the new York State Attorney general says she will investigate immediately. The first of many investigations. You can bet on that. The stock is down 6 1 2 . Amazon, the hacker behind the breach used to work for amazon and there is some question about the security of the cloud. Amazon is huge in the cloud. The stock is down 8 bucks, 1903. Facebook says its Digital Currency, the proposed libra could help Law Enforcement. Do we have anymore on this, why theyre saying that . Susan basically facebook is trying to sell libra to regulators saying it is okay people thought and do say cryptocurrencies is a haven for money launderers, i will is lit activity, drug dealers as well. David marcus, the head of colibra and libra at Facebook Says if you look at Blockchain Technology which is behind crypto, its a public ledger of transactions, you have to put information out there in the public. Using that information you can trace people, to help Law Enforcement track down who is using this, the bad guys in all of this. But of course, you know, we heard from the president and saying that if you want enact libra you better get a chart, a new currency at play around the world. Stuart before we close out this block, i do want to thank my colleague and friend mike murphy sticking with us religiously through the last hour and ten minutes t was mike that pointed out with fomo, the fear of missing out. I always feared missing out on uber and these whole new industries and you put me straight. Great. Happy to do it. Uber is still a good buy. Some of these you dont want to chase to crazy levels. Uber is changing the way people get from point a to point b. Stuart not beyond meat . Scott said, here to stay at 14 billiondollar valuation that is kind of tough to understand that. Stuart mr. Murphy, thanks for joining us. We have a big hour coming up, including a professional video gamer who won 1. 8 million at the fortnite world cup over the weekend. What is he going to do with the money . We will ask him. He is on the show. Watch out delivery drivers might be sampling your food. Nearly 30 of drivers taken a bite out of your meal. What does that mean . Grab a french fry from mcdonalds . I dont know about that. Bar rescues jon taffer coming up on that one. The Discovery Channel shark week is underway. One of the new shows, is, the laws of jaws. Well ask the star of the show, should we worry about the great white sightings off the east coast. I know all about this on cape cod. I have an axe to grind right there. [theme to jaws playing ] stuart you know which camera . Ashley jaws. Stuart doesnt really matter. Were playing the jaws music obviously. In the last week there have been 17 shark sightings off cape cod. A shark expert is with us now. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Stuart as you may know, i spend a lot of time on cape cod. There is a debate going on up there, because we had nasty incident with sharks. A lot of people want to cull, as in kill off some of the seal population, which is attracting sharks, it is lunch for them. What do you say to that . I dont think we should cull the seals or mess with their situation right now at all. Stuart why . I think what we need to do is be aware the sharks live in the ocean. They are there for the sees, for their food source. They are not there to hunt us. If we can be aware of sharks in the water then we can minimize incidents. Stuart so it is sharks territory, we humans shouldnt go swimming in their territory . Not that we shouldnt go swimming. We have to swim with caution, be alert. Most shark encounters, shark bites happen in ambush style. They are looking to get a prey not paying attention to them. If youre always aware. The fact if you see the aerial sharks all around people, incidents happen so rare but knowing that there are sharks in the water, we can change our behavior. Stuart yeah, but what about moms and dads at the beach with young kids, they wont let them go in the sea. It is killing the business. Can we take any measures to stop it . I cant answer that question what measures you can take. I just dont, i would not agree with stuart in principle youre saying that the ocean is the sharks territory and we have no business there . Not that we have no business. I just think we need to respect the sharks and their territory and not fear them but just know that theyre there, know how to interact with sharks. If youre aware a shark is there, youre able to make eye contact the shark will flee. They are so stuart can you show this . I do it all the time for a living. Stuart youre a professional. What about the amateurs . I wasnt a professional 10 years ago. It was something i learned. I watched them watch me. They are so tuned into our body language and if you look at them, then they will turn away. If you approach them, then they want to ambush their prey. They dont know what you are. They think, oh, my gosh, this is seal. I want to eat it, take a bite possibly it is a mistake. They dont eat. Stuart okay. If you make the contact first, initiate contact stuart this is shark week. Yes. It is shark week. Stuart youre on the show. The laws of jaws. What youre really talking about how to avoid a shark attack. That is what it is all about . Yeah. We reenact five different scenarios of actual shark encounters happened, what we can do differently. Were the ones to take a stance, put ourselves in a different position if you are in the water with a shark. How to change the behavior to change the outcome. Stuart there is outrage up and down the east coast. There is a lot of shark bites, there are some deaths. It is pretty nasty. Are you aware of this . Yes i am. It is extremely unfortunate. I just know, we need to be aware, like it is still super rare, unlike what it is for sharks. 100 million sharks a year are actually hunted and killed for their fins. How many, less than 100 shark encounters happen with people a year. It is very rare. It is so tragic when it happens. We need to be so aware of sharks in the water. They are there. Stuart when does your show air . It airs tonight at 9 00 p. M. Stuart youre going to tell me, if i come in eye contact with a shark, i dont have to worry . If you see the shark, the shark will always see you first. If you know there is probably a shark watching you, but youre constantly looking behind you. I always say look where youve been, not where youre going. As you are swimming away they think youre running. Look where youve been, constantly looking around you, you can deter a shark very easily. Stuart i shall bear that in mind. Congratulations. Very successful. The show is a success. Thank you for having me. Stuart thank you very much. Lets get back to money, shall we. Lets move away from sharks. And other sharks on wall street. Ashley that is another story. Stuart were down 50 points. That is entirely different story. Were down 50 points for the dow industrials. Uber cutting 400 jobs in the marketing department. The stock is down 70 cents. Lyft eliminated the role of its chief operating officer. It is down a buck. Amazon, its web services not compromised in any way in the capital one data breach, quote, functioned as designed. That is according to an Amazon Web Service spokesperson. The security of the cloud not contaminated according to amazon. Ecig maker juul opens first store in canada. They say it will be a education venue. Days after it was criticized for targeting teens in america. Details coming up for you. The u. S. Womens National Soccer team, cocaptain, megyn rapinoe says she will never go to the white house unless she is the one being inaugurated. What will Brian Kilmeade say about that . She is on the show later this hour. Termites. Were on the move. Hey rick, all good . Oh yeah, were good. Were good. Terminix. Defenders of home. Stuart were down 73 points. 71 point on the dow after almost an hours worth of business. How about apple . They report after the close of trading today. As you run up to their Earnings Report, the stock is down a couple bucks but still above 200. By the way full coverage of apples profit report four eastern this afternoon right here on the fox business network. Now this, ecigarette maker juul opening its first store in toronto, canada, this as teen vaping on the rise in america. That is a concern. Kristina partsinevelos, are they not as concerned in canada about teen vaping as they are here . Of course they are. It is growing exponentially. Very similar situation in canada as here but nonetheless the company is opening the first brick and mortar star ever in north america, toronto. You have to be 19 years old to enter the store, much like liquor laws. According to the report, they will have frosted windows. It will look like an apple store. Very sleek with all of those little juul, they look like usb keys. They will be located everywhere in the star. This comes, stuart, a time where people are questioning whether juul is harmful, whether vaping is harmful due to the liquid inside. Also more importantly if it is marketed to children with flavors like mange go and mint . One of cofounders of juul testify on capitol hill about marketing to children but overall the company argues, no, theyre a Good Alternative to smoking. Fda has not approved it as a quit smoking device as of yet. Back to you. Stuart kristina, thank you very much indeed. Is down 70 points. Got that. There we go. 28 of delivery drivers have eaten some of their customers food. Im not sure about that. Sounds like a problem for restaurant as well as customers. Well see what bar rescues jon taffer thinks about that he is on the show later. You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from any one else. Why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. Most pills only block one. Flonase. Or trips to mars. 4. 95. Delivery drones or the latest phones. 4. 95. No matter what you trade, at fidelity its just 4. 95 per online u. S. Equity trade. All you need is love stuart i remember when it first came out. You dont. Now this, a new study from u. S. Food, a restaurant supplier. Found that 28 of delivery drivers have eaten some of their customers food or dipped into it. Ashley eww. Stuart jon taffer, bar rescue host. I dont believe this. If you get something from uber eats, it comes in a sealed container. You cant nibble on the thing. Do you believe a third of delivery drivers take a bite out of food. It i do stuart. They really dont come in sealed containers. Depends who you get it from. Sometimes styrofoam containers. You rays an issue, maybe health codes regulate package until delivery. Something like a safety seal goes on a package you know hasnt been broken until you receive it. This is interesting, stewart. 54 of drivers are enticed by the smell of the food. So theyre tempted the whole drive. 60 of their drivers think they are undertipped. About 29 of the drivers think they get terrible directions. So there is a little frustration both ways. I believe the numbers, stuart. I think theyre eating a couple shrimp here and there. Stuart that makes it a huge problem for the restaurant owner, because you have lost control. As soon as you give it to the delivery driver, you dont control the food any longer. But your food is being nibbled on. Absolutely. Not only are they nibbling on it, stuart, theyre opening it up, theyre taking some out. I guess they dont have a knife and fork with them. I guess they dont wear rubber gloves. They could be crosscontaminating the whole container the food is in. That is not a small matter. As an industry we need to create a safety seal that is a standard everybody uses for delivery. Stuart you see why i never have food delivered . I would never touch food handled by a driver wearing rubber gloves. That is another story entirely. Ashley whats that . Stuart your restaurant, theyre all about being fresh. So obvious question, would you put fake meat on your menus . Well you know it is interesting, stuart, about 60 of consumers now say theyre interested in these fake meats, these fake proteins. There is two companies, beyond meat and impossible foods. Beyond meats value is six times since their ipo. So these are powerful entities with huge Market Growth but here is what is interesting. When the dieticians look at it, these products have the same amount of sodium and saturated fat as a regular burger. So it is processed foods with the same amount of sodium and saturated fat as a burger. It starts, do you weigh, go for the organic burger or processed artificial burger . The hello benefits are starting to dem minish. Stuart so youre on the fence essentially . Youre waiting for this thing to flame out . People are that vegan might choose the product. Doesnt mean it is healthier. Stuart i hold here in my hot sweaty hand one of your new products. This is taffers margarita mix. This is a new line of mixes isnt it from you . It is. Stuart what is so different about your margarita mix . A lot of things. Mixology is big across the country. Everybody wants to make the great drinks. These qualities bring quality of mixologist home. This is in glass, not plastic. It is hot filled. No artificial ingredients. If someone wants to make a mixologist quality cocktail at home. That is why i made it. It is really good. Stuart if i generate any sales, it is at least a 10 commission for yours truly, okay, in the absence of an advertising fee. 10 , seriously. How about dinner . Susan oh . Stuart no, i dont eat at night. Only fake meat. How about that . Jon, youre all right. Thank you very much, mr. Taffer. See you again soon. Thank you, stuart. Stuart how about this one. A secret memo of amazon may have revealed plans for a new Grocery Store chain. Tell me who more susan. It has been a great marriage, pricescome come down 2 1 2 sine the acquisition. You get two hour delivery to 90 cities across the country. Amazon wants to be bigger, have their own labels, their own brands. There is a memo circulated, separate from whole foods, basically amazon wants to i guess, have an instore experience for their shoppers and also delivery in the future this place you can pick up, also bring back some of your amazon packages as well. That is pretty much what you have at whole foods. They want a separate label, since it is a 700 billiondollar industry, right . Stuart any move by amazon sends ripples any way through any industry you talk about. Thank you, susan. Joining us live on the radio, Brian Kilmeade. He is the host of the Brian Kilmeade radio show. Megan rap pino, u. S. Womens Soccer Player says the only way she will go to the white house if she is inaugurated. A little joke there. Is she good for bad for womens soccer in america . What do you think . I am so disappointed as a unabashed supporter of soccer while, you know, played in the 70s, stuart, while you were in your teens in england. I was actually one of the few americans, choosing to play this sport. I watched the rise and fall. I have two girls. One 16, 18, they both play college soccer. They both enjoyed watching this team. I thoroughly understand it. I was lucky to cover the womens team from 93 to 1999. At the rose bowl with 100,000. Im disappointed the way she acted, the way she is holding themself. Acting as if the team was against them, they were the Number One Team in the world, defending world cup champions. The big battle now, Megan Rapinoe is equal pay. U. S. Soaker answered them, reason im holding my ipad. The women have gotten 34 million in salaries from 2010 to 2018. Men have gotten 26 million. They get a bigger percentage of the revenue than the men get. The problem is for the women, is that the mens world cup has been around longer, has bigger sponsorship dollars, has wider viewership. Has wider viewership. Its a bigger tournament watched by more around the world than the womens. That might change. But they get a get a greater percentage than the men. So the equal pay lawsuit could be very well a loss. Megan rapinoe is going to forward her own persona. I dont think she is winning over mainstream america. Stuart here is my bottom line. You get politics out of sport. I dont care what your politics are. You can be protrump, you can be conservative, you can be a communist. I dont care. Keep it out of sport. I want to see a great game, played by great athletes, who are playing a great sport. That is all i got to say. I think youre with me. Last word to you . Couple of things, in the 60s, athletes played a vital role in civil rights from jim brown to muhammad ali, to bill russell, to wilt chamberlain, to others. They stood up things are wrong. You treat me great when im great athlete. When im not wearing a uniform you treat me on a secondclass citizen. People got on Michael Jordan for doing nothing when he was so powerful. When people speak up, john harbaugh, coach of the baltimore ravens, im not too thrilled and i want both Elijah Cummings and President Trump to tom together to solve problems of baltimore. Was that wrong . Are we being selective deciding when we want athletes to speak up. I say if they do speak up, dont be surprised if people speak back. Stuart dont damage the sport, which is biting the hand that feeds you. Brian, thank you very much as always. See you real soon. Enjoy it. See you in the halls or the christmas party. Stuart who knows. President trump is considering adding antifa to the domestic terror list. Coming up next a former, a former antifa member. Well get an inside look into that organization. We have the ceo of autonation on the show. I will be speaking with Cheryl Miller. That in our 11 00 hour. Are fewer people buying cars because of uber and lyft . It sure seems that way. More varney after this. All right brad, once again i have revolutionized the songwriting process. Oh, here we go. I know i cant play an instrument, but this. This is my forte. Obviously, for auto insurance, weve got the wheel route. Obviously. Retirement, were going with a longterm play. Makes sense. Pet insurance, wait, let me guess. Flea flicker. Yes howd you know . Studying my playbook . Yeah, actually. Can the past help you write the future . Can you feel calm in the eye of a storm . Can you do more with less . Can you raise the bar while reducing your footprint . For our 100 years weve been answering the questions of today to meet the energy needs of tomorrow. Southern company stuart we have narrowed the loss. It is narrowed to 58 points down for the dow industrials. There you have it. After conservative writer andy gno was attacked by an antifa during a protest in portland, you can see it there, President Trump considering classifying antifa as a terrorist group. Listen to what andy gno said. This will be provide ability to investigate this criminal cartel for the street thugs that they are. In addition to the street hooliganism we see this on the streets of america this, has a political ideology that advocate violence for political revolution. Stuart come on in a former, a repeat, former, member of antifa and he joins us now. Gabriel, if we define this group as a terrorist group, you tell me having been in the organization what kind of terror tactics than they use . Honestly antifa was more violent than i was in it. When i was in it, it was about protests maybe property damage. As we see what happened in washington, theyre willing to build bombs, make it to use it to destroy government facilities. You know President Trump willingness to make antifa a terrorist organization is a good thing because andy gno is right, we currently dont have a framework to classify them as a terrorist organization. Fortunately once we have a framework we can classify them, and other terror groups and ms13 which President Trump references. Stuart youre out, youre not longer in the antifa group . Are you worried about your safety . Youre telling all about your years, or your period in antifa . You know something, that is definitely a concern of mine, especially because i worked for the Leadership Institute. I go on College Campuses all the time. As a matter of fact im doing a college tour, called, behind the black mask to talk about this even though i do have some concerns about it, i think the work at Leadership Institute is great. We just had Vice President mike pence come to our facilities, talk to our field representatives about the importance of the work that they do. Especially personal for me, because it was a field representative from the Leadership Institute who got me out. It is nice to know that we finally have an administration that truly supports the rights of conservative students. Stuart do you need security when you go on this college tour . Tenally we work it out with the university and the clubs who are hosting me. Hopefully i have, i had one event, i believe in with a university where there was security, there was Police Officers were present. Luckily nothing came of it. Stuart youre a brave man, an intelligent man because you got it. That is a brave thing. Gabriel, hope you come to see us again. We really want to know what is going on with this bunch, we really want to know. Gabriel, thanks for joining us. See you soon. Thank you. Stuart President Trump is going after congressman Elijah Cummings again this morning. Mr. Trump says all the back and forth benefits his 2020 campaign. Trump Senior Campaign advisor, Mercedes Schlapp is on the show, talking about that in our next hour that is. Videogame competition, new york city, over the weaken had 30 million in price money. This is a videogame contest, 30 million in prizes . We know how much the winner got, 3 million. How about the runnerup, a big chunk of change awarded to that man there. He is next. Nted to get away who used expedia to book the Vacation Rental that led to the ride which took them to the place where they discovered that sometimes a little down time can lift you right up. Flights, hotels, cars, activities, Vacation Rentals. Expedia. Everything you need to go. Stuart yes the fortnite championships, a video game contest held in new york city over the weekend. Gamers came to get at big money. Counter logic gaming, harrison chan, the name of team he plays for, known as psalm, came in second. That is the man right here. This is harrison chang. You came in second. I did. Stuart you got 1. 8 million. I did. Stuart what was the winner, what did he do that was so much better than what you did . He played a bit better. Stuart what do you mean played a bit better . Doing what . I play like passive style in the competition. He played more aggressive style. Which it is riskier but paidoff for him. Stuart he got 3 million. You got is. 8 million. Im not complaining. Stuart you are 24 . I am. Stuart were you one of the oldest players . I find that incredible. 200 players qualified for the world cup. Four was 24. That was highest on spectrum. The average age was 16. Stuart gee. What will you do with 1. 8 million. Go to vegas. Stuart no you wont. I dont believe a word. I will do the smart thing. Invest, make more money. Stuart would you call yourself a professional . Yeah. Oh of course. Stuart this is what you do for a living . I do. Stuart definitely a very good living. 1. 8 million. Stuart what astonishes our viewers, me in particular, how much money goes into this. Yaw, industry has been exponentially growing like in the past few years. When i was in high school, even, it wasnt nearly this big. But nowadays, yeah. Stuart you regulate play for a team. You go around the country with these contests, you play in front of a live large audience. They can all see what youre doing . Yeah. It is all captured live right in front of them so. Stuart is it exciting . Definitely, yeah. Stuart are they shouting and cheering, all that . Yeah. You have shell cast, growing wild. Stuart this was a fortnite contest. That was the game that you all played. What do you think is the next big game in these places . That is tough to say because, there is always new games coming out but it is tough to say which one will be really good and which one everyone will like, so. Stuart okay, look. You sluffed off the question what youre going to do with 1. 8 million, i will go to vegas. I honestly dont believe that. What are you going to do . I will probably buy like some kind of a house. Susan yeah. Stuart some kind of a house . Hopefully it raises in value. I dont know, man. Im still figuring it out. Ashley maybe a car . I bought a car before i even won the money. Stuart that is taken care of. You do realize that you won in new york and taxation rates are huge . Thats true. Stuart in new york. How do you feel about losing at least half of your 1. 8 million . Ashley not good. I love america. Stuart yes . But sometimes it can be tough. Stuart wellsaid. You can come back. Harrison, youre all right. Congratulations. That is a huge amount of money. Yeah. Stuart good stuff. See you again soon. We really narrowed the loss. Were down 40 points. Netflix spending a half billion on just three movies. Not helping the stock. It is down five bucks. Look at disney. Reaching a series of record highs. Its a fraction below the alltime high. It is at 146 as we speak. Up there. More parents expecting their kids to help pay for college. What have we got on that, ash . Ashley maybe hopeful thinking. This is paying for high every education. Those parents, 38 say they expect children, kids to basically pay their way. Just 28 of parents by the way are willing to cover the entire cost of college. Thats down from 34 percent last year. There is a feeling, more about not looking after junior, paying his or her way all the way through college. And maybe, junior should pay his or her own way. Susan maybe if they switch guardianship we can have ashley they can do that. Stuart i saw you pulling a face. Susan i paid my fair share. Stuart listen to this one, listen to this. Californias Education Department is out with a handbook on ethnic studies. It calls capital itch, power and oppression, a form of power and oppression. It associates capitalism with racism and White Supremacy. How about that . That is from the california Education Department, how to conduct ethnic studies classes. Capitalism is akin to racism. Have we come that far . Unbelievable. Coming more on that i absolutely promise you. If you watch the show regularly, i speculated that socialist europe is finished. 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Dont wait another minute, call now to purchase your American Eagle coins at cost for the amazing price on your screen. Stuart okay, everybody. Do you know what this is . Let me put it up on the screen. There it is. It is a sociopolitical system where heterosexual men are favored. You got you all of that . We are a Financial Program so why am i delving into this . Well, cisheteropatriaryhy is in a handbook about how to teach ethnic studies. This is important. Im serious. It shows the penetration of the far, far left in politics into our Public Schools. California Education Department has issued this ethnic studies model curriculum. Talk about indoctrination. Students will be talkught power and oppression alongside White Supremacy, a political opinion thats being taught to our children. The handbook even gets into housing. It describes subprime Mortgage Loans as an attack on low income people, an attack. Unbelievable. Its all wrapped up in incomprehensible language. It drones on about positionalities, hybridities. This handbook was written by left wing academics and left wing activists, designed to look into the minds of youngsters that america is a rotten place and must be changed. The handbook suggests teachers give their class a project like organizing a sitin, a diein, a march, boycott, strike. Oh, how cute. It seems the left sees its route to power through division. The universal labeling of President Trump as a racist, oh, he mustnt win the black vote. The references to White Supremacy by at least two president ial candidates, identity as the allimportant factor in modern leftist politics. I ask you, do you really want your youngsters to be taught that capitalism is racist, that america is an awful place . No, you dont. Nor me. The solution is at the ballot box. The third hour of Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart all right. Ladies and gentlemen, you are in for a real treat this hour. Weve got senator mike braun, indiana republican, Mercedes Schlapp, the newly appointed trump 2020 Senior Campaign adviser, and sheryl miller, auto nation ceo. Keep it on varney. All three this hour. Lets get at it. I want some reaction to my editorial and who better to react than Katie Pavlich with me now. Great to see you. You are going to ask me where you went wrong and i will say nowhere because of course you are always brilliant. We know that. Stuart thats really cool. What do you think . I mean, this is a massive problem. We have seen indoctrination in textbooks for decades now, we have seen indoctrination in academia. People are under the impression this type of leftist ideology is only taught at the university where you are voluntarily paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to consume it but this is actually starting in preschool, kindergarten, k through 12 education and you are also paying for it because usually its through the Public School system. The unions are protecting the teachers who are not really teaching things that are applicable to competing not just in america but around the world against china, math, reading, language, real sciences, not all the garbage you just pointed out with the naming and diving into this academic privilege where they get to not deal with real problems but make up things to be concerned about. Stuart i think i was absolutely right, you are absolutely correct to agree with me. I just got steamed up about this because i can barely believe you actually put its all a big lie. The idea that capitalism is racist and a system that is oppressive is not true. It has brought hundreds of millions of people around the world, if not billions, out of poverty as a result of the system, whereas marxist socialist policies that are promoted on College Campuses and k through 12 Public Education in the textbooks already, that kind of system has led to hundreds of billions of people dying under the most horrific of human suffering throughout the decades. So this is something that makes it, you have to ask so it makes it more important for things like Young America foundation or for parents who dont want their children to be indoctrinated to get involved with the curriculum. Stuart i have another College Cheating scam here. Rich chicago suburbanites giving up guardianship of their children to less wealthy people so they qualify for Financial Aid. Is this another black eye for Higher Education . Or another black eye for the rich . Both. But its certainly another indictment of the Higher Education system and the cost of college. In our society, education is important but we have put so much emphasis on getting a degree no matter what it is, whether it will be actually a return on investment, thats how degrees should be looked at, are you going to make back the money you put in, instead people say you should go to college at all costs and it doesnt matter what your degree is in, or else you dont fit into society or wont be successful. That has led to a lot of this corruption we are trying to get students into schools they are not qualified for, and its not a level playing field. The more Financial Aid that we have seen given out by the federal government, the more corruption we have seen. Theres not enough accountability for the large grotesque nature of the way these programs are run. Stuart im still glad to be an american. Me, too. Stuart thank you very much. Good to see you. Stuart see you soon. Now, check that big board. Talk about a narrowing of the loss. I guess about an hour ago we were down about 100 points. Now were down 18. Let me bring in jason katz, managing director and private wealth adviser for ubs. This man handles the money of the extremely rich. That is true, isnt it . And famous. Stuart famous people as clients . Not quite. Sitting next to you. Stuart all right, all right. Youre telling wealthy people to put their money into stocks in america. Thats what youre doing right now. Make your case. Why . Im actually telling investors who are long the market to remain long the market. With respect to deploying new capital, i would definitely tread carefully. Stuart would you put it into american stocks . Would that be your first port of call . American stocks . Without a doubt. If you look at the earnings thus far, 50 odd of the companies that have reported have beat expectations. In fact, by a fairly wide margin. Its companies in the u. S. That are beating by that margin, not companies overseas. Stuart okay. So stay with what youve got, be cautious about any new money going in, but look favorably on u. S. Stocks. Now, i want to talk to you about Interest Rates. The fed, i think tomorrow, the Federal Reserve will lower Interest Rates by a quarter point. Thats what i think. But my opinion is theres a lot more rate cuts to come, because america has to keep pace with europe, which is just printing money left, right and center, and driving yields into negative territory. Weve got to keep up with them. What do you say . This could be arguably the most telegraphed fed meeting in recent history, at least in my recent history. Its a foregone conclusion we will get a quarter of a point. Its the narrative thereafter that we have to really Pay Attention to. If its a one and done, then the markets are going to be pretty antsy. If theres data dependency, i think we could continue this rally. Stuart however, what do you think about the fed having to keep up with the europeans . Am i on to something or feel free to dismiss it completely, if thats the way you feel. I think youre on to something. Theres 12 trillion some odd dollars of negative yielding debt around the world so to keep us on par from a dollar perspective, trade perspective, i think theres an argument to keep rates low for longer. That being said, outside of manufacturing numbers, most economic numbers have been improving. I think we might take a breather after this next meeting and see how trade materializes. Stuart we got it. Jason katz, thank you very much indeed, sir. The adviser to the rich and famous. You will be doing a tv show. Stay with fox business. Special coverage of the fed is tomorrow afternoon, 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Neil, maria, lou and myself will follow all the action along with charles payne, 2 00 tomorrow afternoon. Pop star katy perry, i guess you could say shes in hot water. A jury ruled that one of her hit songs improperly copied a christian rap song. We will play both songs for you and you can decide for yourself. President trump spoke to reporters this morning. He says his comments about baltimore will actually help him in the election. You will hear what hes got to say. You can make your own judgment. Mitch mcconnell giving a passionate speech on the senate floor. Hes calling out the left and the Mainstream Media for referring to him as a russian asset. Mcconnell . Good lord. Mcconnell calls it modern day mccarthyism. He was fired up about it and you are going to hear also what he had to say. Thats after this. All right brad, once again i have revolutionized the songwriting process. Oh, here we go. I know i cant play an instrument, but this. This is my forte. Obviously, for auto insurance, weve got the wheel route. Obviously. Retirement, were going with a longterm play. Makes sense. Pet insurance, wait, let me guess. Flea flicker. Yes howd you know . Studying my playbook . 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Yesterday on the senate floor, Mitch Mcconnell gave what im going to call an impassioned speech defending his record on russia. That after the Mainstream Media called him, called mcconnell, a russian asset. Heres some of the speech. Roll tape. Over the last several days, i was called unpatriotic, unamerican, and essentially treasonous by a couple of left wing pundits on the basis of boldfaced lies. I was accused of aiding and abetting the very man i singled out as an adversary and opposed for nearly 20 years, vladimir putin. This modern day mccarthyism was pushed by bigtime outlets. The smear that i am quote, a russian asset, ran in the opinion pages of the Washington Post. The accusation that im quote, unamerican was broadcast on msnbc. Stuart gee, im glad he spoke out. On the righthand side of the screen is senator mike braun, republican from indiana. Just go right at it, mr. Senator. Whats your reaction to mcconnell as a russian asset . I tell you what, when i saw what mitch had to do to make his case, it was reminiscent of when i was running to become senator. Stu, what its an example of is when your message is so bad in terms of medicare for all, green new deal, anything, youll say anything to distract from it. I think its sad. I know when i ran, the vitriol, the outright lies and distortions, im glad mitch stood up. Republicans have always been wary of russia, soviet union. To me for the democrats to stoop that low, its an example of theyre embarrassed about what their crew is running on and well see some of that over the next couple days. Stuart i cant imagine what its like for you as a business guy operating in a climate ruled by the Washington Post. But thats another story entirely. I will move on to Something Real serious here. The budget deal. Youre in session until, what is it, thursday. Mick mulvaney says President Trump would sign a budget deal if it comes across his desk. So in the next couple of days, can you get this done . I think its going to get done. Sadly, its going to be done in a way that i think is kicking the can down the road. But leader mcconnell, President Trump, you got to remember, they are in the dynamic of divided government, and as much as i dont like it, i will vote against it because when i ran for senate, weve got to change our ways here. Even for democrats who love the federal government, you should think they would want to help the institution. Trillion dollar deficits on 22 trillion in debt. I am a finance guy, main street entrepreneur. You only need an eighth grade education to know that its not going to work. So im disappointed. I understand where the leaders coming from. He wants to eliminate the chaos and the uncertainty, and i challenge both him and President Trump, when we win in 2020, im going to remind everyone that we need to start down the pathway of changing what ails this place. Stuart thats interesting. Im going to move on to a related issue. Should the Federal Reserve be lowering Interest Rates now when the economy is very strong, employment is at historic lows, and the stock markets at record highs . Is this the time to lower rates . What do you say . You know, i think that we have been blessed, especially with the jobs act and tax cuts of late december 17 to where everything is working well. I have never seen it, three of my four kids run my business, everything is in place. Democrats always make the case that you can do all these other things like medicare for all, green new deal, that would double, maybe triple the size of the government that already doesnt pay for itself. Really, you shouldnt need the fed to help out but i see so many bad things being done through government, i would rather hedge my bets and see that the fed is doing what its doing. In the long run, its like anything, youve got to start living within your means. You cant count on a loose fed policy but mostly we need to fix things here in d. C. Stuart i will say it again. We need more Business People in politics. Thats a fact. Senator braun, always a pleasure. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. Thank you. Stuart yes, sir. After a congressional beatdown, earlier this month, facebook now says that Digital Currency proposal, the libra, can actually help Law Enforcement. Okay. Tell me how that works. Deirdre well, you know who is buying. So with bitcoin, for example, theres a transaction record but not our names. So Facebooks Libra would have both of our names because to get this, you actually have to have a local bank account, you have to have put in local currency, and libra as its proposed would be backed by hard assets so shortterm government securities. So its less ethereal, less than bitcoin in any case. Bitcoin, one of the reasons criminals love it is because you just cant trace. Stuart the libra would eliminate that problem. Deirdre exactly. You have a name attached to an account attached to a transaction, different than bitcoin. Stuart i call that a plus. Thank you. Say it aint so. According to new data, sales of minivans falling. Suburbanittes maybe trying to shake the soccer mom image, buying suvs instead. Coming up, the ceo of auto nation. I want to know, does she have a lot of minivans sitting on her lots . Check this out. He plans to build a hotel suspended off the side of a cliff 2,000 feet above a fjord in norway. We will tell you all about it after this. My insurance rates are probably gonna double. But dad, youve got allstate. With accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Smart kid. Indeed. Are you in good hands . Were on the move. Hey rick, all good . Oh yeah, were good. Were good. Terminix. Defenders of home. Stuart not keen on heights . Avert your eyes, please. We have a new rendering of a Cliffside Hotel in southern norway. It sits 2,000 feet above a touristheavy fjord. Its got four floors, an infinity pool hanging off the side. The design firm says its just a concept for now. No set construction date. Ashley good luck. Stuart a little interactive part of the show for you. Pop star katy perry, a jury found that she did indeed copy a christian rap song called joyful noise for her song called dark horse. First, let me play some of katy perrys song. Listen to this. Stuart okay. I think i got a little bit of that. Ashley got enough. Stuart now listen to the other song called joyful noise. Stuart i dont get that. I dont think they sounded that similar, frankly. Deirdre it was a surprise decision, honestly. Nobody really expected it to go this way. Now all thats left is to decide how much katy perry and any other defendants will have to pay in damages because they will have to pay something. Copyright infringement. Ashley the writers of the song katy perry had said we never heard this song before. They claim they never heard it before. Their argument is if you are going to start saying this, they call them the basic Building Blocks of creating a song, the abcs. Deirdre they call it the alphabet. Ashley ive got to be honest, on the blurred lines one, i could hear that. I couldnt hear this. Deirdre thats why it was a surprise. They say katy perry was pretty chipper while she was there. At one point they couldnt get the recording to work in the court. She said i will perform it live. She was in a pretty good mood thinking it was going to go her way but it didnt. Stuart ninemember jury, federal jury. Deirdre seven days. Seven days of deliberations. Stuart tough stuff. Deirdre, ashley, thank you. Check the market, please. We have come back to a narrow loss, 34 points down for the dow. Nasdaq, down about a third of 1 . Heres whats coming up. Market watcher ryan payne, strange kind of graphic there, he sent us a note this morning. Forget all about the bad news from europe, negative Interest Rates, brexit chaos, et cetera. Forget all of that. He thinks European Companies are a great place to put your money. He says he loves europe so much that it hurts. Hes totally wrong but we will let him make his case after this. Liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. I wish i could shake your hand. Granted. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Stuart we opened with a loss of over 100 points. Now we have a loss of 35 points. I got to say it again, we have narrowed the loss. Now look, any avid viewer of this program knows that im no big fan of europe, far from it. Negative Interest Rates, open borders, you name it. Theyve got a problem. But for some reason, our next guest just loves europe so much that it hurts. Thats his words. The man himself, ryan payne, hes the one who said this. Arent you . I did. I did. Stuart wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You manage peoples money. Yes. Hard to believe. Yes. Stuart yes, it is. You want to put some of your clients money into europe . Lets go over why i love it so much that it hurts. First off, 70 billion plus have come out of european funds this year. Its a very unloved place to be. Stuart its all come here. Come here, but also, you have 14 trillion worth of negative securities and bonds globally. People are putting their money there, right . All the while, you can take the biggest blue chip European Companies, talking like hsbc, bp, glaxosmithklineglaxosmithkl of blue companies, theyre large with a Global Client base, not just the u. S. But they sell globally. Thats where the u. S. Is a little bit of disadvantage because we sell mainly to the u. S. Right now, you are getting, if you just bought index stocks, you are getting 5. 5 in dividends. Stuart thats paid in euros, isnt it . It is, but thats thats in the u. S. Dollar equivalent. Thats what you would receive in u. S. Dollars right now. Depending what happens with the u. S. Dollar from here, i dont have a crystal ball, but all things being equal today, 5. 5 . Stuart i do find that interesting. You are telling me okay. Stuart you are telling me i could invest in an index fund and the index would be a major blue chip European Company exactly. Stuart and that fund will pay me 5. 5 dividends. It gets better. Stuart go ahead. The valuations like half these big blue chip Tech Companies are putting their money into the u. S. , so you are getting a multiple thats half the price. Tl theres a big margin of safety just to buy these companies. Stuart thats not bad. I was having a go at you with the funny graphic but it makes some sense. Stock of the day, the week, the month there it is. Stuart we spent a lot of money making that thing so were going to keep it right there. Who knew i looked so handsome in a mustache. Stuart stock of the day, beyond meat. The company the stock is taking a hit right now because theyve got this secondary offering. A quarter million shares they are going to issue at some point in the future. The stock is down 4. 8 . What do you think of beyond meat . I think its, right now it has a value larger than campbells soup which has 33 times more revenue than beyond meat. Its insane. I would say right now, baiuyer beware when you see insiders trying to dump their shares in the open market, its not because its a good deal. Stuart theres this thing called fomo, fear of missing out. I have that fear because i dont want to miss out of this brave new industry which in the future i think will probably be a big deal. I think you might be right but remember, most ipos actually underperform for the next five years the overall market because they come out of these crazy multiples, even amazon when it first came out went down 90 at one point. You will get a better chance to buy. Hold off on the fomo, you will have better opportunities in the future. Stuart hold on a second. I want to deal with apple because they report after the closing bell today. Deirdre bolton is with us. I dont know why the camera is on ryan. Hes had his moment of glory. Deirdre he has the better graphic. He has the beret. We will get you a mustache, too. Stuart what do we expect . Deirdre there is really three questions. This company is in transition so how severe is the iphone sales drop. Thats a huge question. Are the services continuing to grow. Are we all buying apps and everything else, music. Then what are the extras, backtoschool, are kids buying ipads, how are apple watches selling. Those are the three questions. We have to underline the company is in transition. Theres only so much we are willing to pay for any one of these and across the world, especially in china, for example, it seems like the middle class in china is not willing to pay 1,000 a phone, especially when they can get cheaper phones that are almost as good or just serve their needs over there. We are looking at 53. 39 billion. Stuart ryan payne still with me. Would you buy apple now before the earnings at 208 a share . Deirdre just bummed me out but we have to look, they have a 1. 2 billion people using their smart phone and that ecosystem is a tremendous opportunity to sell other services. Thats the future. In fact, services should go up by like 20 this quarter year over year. Thats what you have to look for. What other things will they sell in their ecosystem, not about the iphone. Stuart 208, you like it . I like it. Stuart got it. Got to move on. Stay with fox business. Full coverage of apples earnings. The camera is still on this guy. Get it off. Come on. Im the guy here. 4 00 p. M. Eastern this afternoon. Check out the apple earnings. Now, put me back on. There you go. Stuart they just passed legislation requiring employers to give workers two weeks notice if their schedule changes. Cities like new york, seattle, san francisco, they already have laws like this. Some industries thankfully are pushing back. They say its a job killer. Theres jeff flock. Jeff, please dont argue with me. This idea of giving two weeks notice of a schedule change is a disaster for businesses, isnt it . Reporter stuart, did you see the memo . We have to change your schedule tomorrow. You actually need to anchor fbn am tomorrow. Youre okay with that, right . Stuart i am indeed. Reporter not a problem . Stuart happens all the time. Reporter this actually doesnt apply to high dollar employees like yourself. Its actually for lower paid employees and youre right, look at the map. Multiple towns and even the state of oregon have passed these laws. What do they provide for . Heres what ill tell you. The chicago law which takes effect in july of next year, you got to get two weeks notice on your schedule. If we change your schedule, you get an hour of what they call predictability pay, little bit of a penalty. If we cancel or cut your schedule, you get paid for half of what you should have been paid if you had worked the normal schedule. Workers say this just brings a lot more sanity to their lives. Heres the problem with it. Heres where we get on sort of the same page. Obviously it cuts down on flexibility for workers and here at this hospital, this is South Shore Hospital on the south side of chicago, serves a tough area, the ceo of this hospital which relies on workers whose schedules change because they have different numbers of patients, nurses, whatever, if this drives up our salary 5 says the ceo that would be another million dollars. Without funding from the state, we will be closing. We dont have the money to survive. So both sides of the story. I report, you decide. Stuart my decision is very clear. It is a disaster for employers. Case closed. Are you with me on this, jeff . Reporter see you on fbn am tomorrow. Look forward to waking up at 4 00 a. M. To watch you. Stuart ill text you. Youre all right. Thanks for joining us. See you again soon. Check that big board. Not much change in the last few minutes. We are down 39, 40 points. Thats it. Next case. File this one under didnt see it coming. A purported mastermind behind 9 11, he wants to help victims with their case against saudi arabia. All right, ashley. Tell me the story without me throwing up. Ashley all right. Well, hopefully you wont do that. Khalid shaikh mohammed, whose picture is on the screen there, hes saying look, he was trying desperately to save his life. It had been almost 18 years since 9 11. His case, his trial is still in flux. Hes got a death sentence, its a Federal Capital offense hanging over him. He says okay, look, you take away the Death Penalty and i will help you with your lawsuit against saudi arabia. The victims lawsuit against saudi arabia claiming that they were complicit in this attack, the 9 11 attacks which saudi arabia denies. He is also behind the killing of danny pearl of wall street journal. Hes suspected of that. Hes saying look, if you save my life i will give you the information, once and for all tell you the true story of 9 11. Stuart i hear you. I will leave it at that. Noted. President trump tells reporters the people of baltimore are thanking him for talking about the citys problems. He says his comments will help him get reelected. Trump 2020 Senior Adviser Mercedes Schlapp on that, next. Senator warren out with a trade plan. Remarkable stuff. She only wants america to trade with nations that follow a strict set of environmental and labor standards. We will break it all down for you after this. Let me ask you something. Can the past help you write the future . Can you feel calm in the eye of a storm . Can you do more with less . Can you raise the bar while reducing your footprint . For our 100 years weve been answering the questions of today to meet the energy needs of tomorrow. Southern company stuart senator Elizabeth Warren has rolled out another plan. This ones on trade. Tell me all about it. Deirdre if you need a headline, it is to improve the lives of workers in her world and pressuring big corporations. Eliminate all domestic fossil fuel subsidies, be party to the paris climate agreement, recognize, enforce International Labor organizations core labor rights, so thats against child labor, one key component of that, and enforce religious freedom. That means any country that is not following these standards, we would not have free trade with. Stuart so we cant trade with a country if theyre not part of the Paris Climate Accord . What is the chance we are going to get back into that. We cant trade with nations which allow fossil fuel subsidies. Cant trade with them. Thats it. Cant do that. Cant trade with countries that do not enforce very strict child labor laws. What about china and india . Deirdre and religious freedom. That pretty much eliminates most countries. Stuart a lot of them. I guess shes not much into free trade. Deirdre does not seem so. Stuart all right. All right. Now then, we have President Trump, he says, look, hes tripling down on his criticisms of congressman Elijah Cummings. Heres what he had to say to the press earlier today. Roll tape, please. I think im helping myself and ill tell you what. The white house and myself have letters and emails and phone calls, have received more phone calls than i think on any other subject of people from baltimore and other cities corruptly run by democrats, thanking me for getting involved. And they really appreciate what im doing. Unemployment for African Americans is the lowest its been, the best numbers, meaning, in the history of our country, the lowest in the history of our country. People have called from baltimore thanking me so much because all that money thats been spent over 20 years has been stolen and wasted by people like Elijah Cummings. Stuart strong stuff indeed. Come in, Mercedes Schlapp, trump 2020 Senior Campaign adviser. The president says i think im helping myself. Now, you are part of his campaign so im sure you agree with him. But do you really think that attacking predominantly people of color and inner cities is a Winning Strategy . Look, i think that the president obviously, whenever hes under attack, hes going to fight back and hes done this when hes talked about senator schumer or speaker pelosi. So i think what is important here is to highlight the fact that he is stating the obvious, that when you look at cities like baltimore, where you have seen the doubling of poverty rate, you have seen the highest crime rate, that these are issues in these urban cities that have not been addressed in a long time. Where you have failed democrat leadership, these local politicians who have been there decade after decade, not solving the problems. But in essence, just dealing with the status quo. So i really think that President Trump is highlighting the fact that we need to fix these problems in these local communities. Stuart hes made an issue out of the performance of democrat politicians in our inner cities. It is now an issue which will surely go forward to the 2020 campaign. But ive got your reaction to this headline from the a. P. Entitled suburban women recoil as trump dives into racial politics. Again, do you believe his recent statements about baltimore will lose him the suburbs . I think whats critical here is the fact that if its a certain gender or certain race that you are not allowed to criticize, that politician, so as a woman, say i was a congresswoman, that i cant be criticized because of my policies, thats insane. I mean, the reality is the ones who are igniting the racial conversation are the democrats. They quickly go to the president s a racist. Even the squad basically implied that nancy pelosi was a racist. Its a loosely using that terminology that i think puts us in a very difficult position. The president should be allowed to criticize Elijah Cummings if Elijah Cummings is focused solely on the Oversight Committee, on impeachment, and not focused on his district which is ensuring we can uplift the people of baltimore. Stuart i bet you will be watching the debate and looking for sound bites that you can use in 2020. Am i right . Absolutely. I think at the end this is going to be a debate of whether its the socialist party versus the socialist party. I think that they are so focused on the far left policies that dont connect with mainstream america, and they wont even be talking about the economy, why, because President Trump is winning on the economy and the fact is when you look at these minority communities, they are benefiting because of trumps economy. What are the democrats proposing . More government spending, medicare for all that we know would have huge negative impact on Senior Citizens and those millions, 180 Million People who are on private insurance, and of course, Free Health Care for illegal aliens. Where we need to be helping those children and those families in our inner cities. Stuart the news is im staying up late to watch tonight. How about that. Mercedes schlapp, thank you very much for joining us. Always a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. Stuart Cheryl Miller just took over at ceo of autonation. She will do her first interview as ceo with us. I want to know, are fewer people buying cars these days, because of the rise of uber and lyft . We will ask that question. Shes next. So. How are you feeling . On a scale of one to five . One to five . Its more like five million. Theres everything from happy to extremely happy. Theres also angry. Im really angry clive actually, really angry. Thank you. But what if your business could understand what your customers are feeling. And then do something about it. Turn problems into opportunities. Thanks drone. Customers into fanatics change the whole experience. Alright who wants to go again . I do i do i have a really good feeling about this. groans hmph. food grunting menacingly when the food you love doesnt love you back, stay smooth and fight heartburn fast with tums smoothies. Tum tumtum tum tums stuart autonation is a huge car dealership chain. They just appointed their first female ceo, Cheryl Miller. Cheryl miller is with us now. Cheryl, congratulations and welcome to Varney Company. Great to see you. Thanks, stuart. Great to see you as well. Stuart you are the first female and hispanic ceo of a publicly traded car company. Is there any difference in your approach to making a profit because youre a woman . We want to serve customers and thats always been the approach for the business. So im thrilled for the opportunity, after a 20year career in automotive to join the likes of mary barra, ceo of General Motors as well as pam nicholson, ceo of enterprise. We want to continue to focus on the customer all throughout our business, so we will continue to focus on our core business as well as focus on our brand extension strategy with the talented team of both men and women. Stuart you know, my favorite vehicle over the last generation has been the minivan. I had seven or eight of them because ive got a large family, but im seeing a real decline in minivan sales. Do you have a lot of minivans on your lot . Strange question, i know, but have you got a lot of them on the lot . Im actually surprised to hear you have seven or eight. When i think about the minivan business, its been about 3 for the last five years. The Chrysler Pacifica leads the minivan segment but what you have been seeing over the last couple years is really the emergence of some great small suvs and crossovers. What people are really looking for, what our customers are looking for, is three rows and storage. Theres a lot of great options today and you are seeing that puts some pressure on the minivan, quite honestly. Stuart am i right in saying that fewer young people buy cars . Either new or used . Because of uber and lyft . Is that an accurate statement . Whats interesting about uber and lyft and just raid haide ha and ride sharing in general, people think its replacing cars but thats not actually the case. What we are seeing is people are using those for select occasions. Think about the situation where you are using ride hailing or ride sharing to go to the airport, or you are thinking about using it to go out to dinner but its not really replacing vehicles at this stage. In fact, if you look at san francisco, uber and lyft have actually increased congestion of traffic in those cities. If you think about electric vehicles, thats really about 1 of our sales. Its been a very consistent 1 for the last tifive years or so. Its actually less than 1 . Stuart am i right in saying if i walk into autonation and i want a car, you will give me you wont give it to me, you will present me i wont give it to you. Stuart i know you wont. I dont want it. You will present me with a car, theres no haggling on the price, and i get at least a oneyear warranty on that vehicle . Thats autonations style, isnt it . The way i think about autonations proposition is on the used vehicle side of the business, we are one price, no haggle. On the new vehicle side of the business, we represent over 30 brands on that part of the business, and we are not one price in new, but we have fantastic pricing and we have fantastic products to offer a Broad Customer selection in the new vehicle part of our business. Im certain there is something there for you. Stuart actually, i know it, because i have bought at autonation in the past. Cheryl, first of all, congratulations on your promotion to this position. And thank you very much for coming on Varney Company first time around. We appreciate it. Cheryl miller. Thank you. Stuart okay. Not quite sure what to say. Ashley yeah, delay. Deirdre im impressed you had seven minivans. Stuart i bought the original minivans from chrysler, town country. I bought those from the early 1980s, way ashley oldfashioned windup windows. Stuart dollar for dollar, the best vehicles i ever bought. They were. They really were. More varney after this. 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