of course, blaming none other than president trump. but is that really fair? brian: yeah. here to break it down for us is varney and company own stuart varney from the fox business network. stuart, what caused this? the bottom line is that investors are increasingly anxious, increasingly worried that they will not get any of the trump growth agenda, the trump growth plan this year that is a legitimate concern. the market went straight up after the election because we were expecting tax cuts less red tape, infrastructure plan. we haven t gottenfully of it six months into the presidency. these investigations and the political turmoil simply make things worse. ainsley: why the concern now? look, we have an extraordinary 10 days have we not with scandal after scandal and the appointment of a special counsel now to investigate any russian connection. that is political turmoil. that s going to hang over any legislation that reforms the tax code. that repeals and gets rid of obamacare. th
accent even though she is not french. i am eric: doctors say she suffers from foreign accent syndrome. it is so rare there have only been 62 cases worldwide. you don t speak with such accent. is varney s accent real? gretchen: it is and i love it. maria has a florida accent a little bit. that s right. there is a south florida accent. i can actually tell when people are from miami. we want to take a look at the weather because across the country we have very active weather especially across areas south of the great lakes, also parts of the plains and rockies and into montana. several areas could be looking at severely weather at damaging winds in excess of 60 miles an hour and large hail. there is an isolated threat for tornadoes. that is not the biggest threat for today. temperatures today not bad in the northeast. hot day in texas, 101
has now been weaponized. megyn: well, that was a news conference a short time ago. house democrats hold ago news conference to abolish the debt ceiling even as we watch the debt race up to the 16.4 trillion dollar limit and we hear talk now about circles of whole new class of taxes that the american people may be saddled with. stu varney is varney and company on the fox business network. they re not the majority in the house, but there is he a push to make them the majority in the house. and president obama is reportedly maneuvering in a lot of ways, politically now to try to set the democrats up to retake control of the house and there s a question about whether as soon as 2014, if they get their way, they re going to get rid of the debt ceiling. what would that do? what they want is unlimited borrowing by the administration so the treasury
overweight, a smoker, both hips replaced, one knee replaced and two back surgeries. i d run if i could naked in a heartbeat for a million dollars. hopefully he can walk. after taxes, is there do you tax streakers? i mean, do we know? where s varney? we should have asked him. good point. all right. would you run naked in front of the president for a million dollars? do you think that tom brady looks like a girl? brian does. i do think that his brazilian supermodel has changed his look. can t wait to hear that. and he is confronted with that. we want to get to some headlines, though. president obama heads back to the road this week. trying to win for democratic voters ahead of the midterm elections, of course. today in washington he ll be pushing for more money for our roads and rails. then he flies down to miami to wait for students for waiting for superman that blames teachers unions for america s failing education system.
deal with result in america getting its credit cut again. stu varney is varney & co. stu we talked about this before. congress has an even shorter deadline to come up with this deal than we thought because of the warning from the cbo says you can t give it to us at the last minute, we need time to score it. that s correct. the skrept sis eupl that a deal will be done and stay done is rising. point number one. they are saying this morning i need more time to score this thing. he also said, megyn, even if you get a deal done that deal could be undone by a future congress. so it s not set in concrete. here is another item for you. moody s, that s the rating agency which assesses the status of america s debt, it has said that if they fail to come up with this big deficit-cutting deal that would be, quote, a major factor in their future rating. that was steven hess who said that. i just called steven hess to ask