To war. The nightmare stage of trumps rule is here, says michelle gold berg in the New York Times and paul krugman simply calls our president a bully. Democrats lining up to attack the president , Bernie Sanders says hes like putin. Assassinating dissonance. Meanwhile, theres real chaos, where hundreds of thousands on the streets for the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani and then a stampede. Iranian state news media says more than 30 are dead. Overall this is a morning of confrontation, war talk threats and military preparations and as for the market, a shrug. Monday the dow made a 200point uturn and actually closed higher. This morning were looking at futures, minor loss for the dow and the s p, a 10point gain maybe for the nasdac at the opening bell but look at oil, another shrug on that market after the Soleimani Killing the price of oil moved to 63 64 a barrel today its back to 62 and the price of gas, Holding Steady the National Average still right there at 2. 58 per gallon.
Goods this time from the eu. The big political story of the day, congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez going after the Border Patrol during a visit to a migrant detention facility. Wait until you hear the shocking claims she is making about conditions there and you will also hear how Border Agents are responding. There is a lot going on this morning. Varney company starts right now. David nike pulling a special fourth of july sneaker featuring an early American Flag after Colin Kaepernick got involved in the whole situation. He reportedly told nike that the early American Flag on the shoe is offensive because of its connection to an era of slavery. Joining us is market watcher john layfield. John, is nike going too far with Political Correctness . Im not sure here. Like i kind of feel for nike here because they are trying to stay apolitical as crazy as that seems. They just pulled a product in china because the japanese designer had some ties to the hong kong protest as far as support.
Want to get this done before roy moore or his democrat opponent takes the Alabama Senate seat on december 22nd. It is going to be very tight. There will be wheeling and dealing for every vote. Here is my opinion, we will get a tax cut deal done because i cant believe the Republican Party will say no and selfdestruct. Today, by the way, Goldman Sachs say the economies next year will be surprisingly strong, a separate goldman reports says wages will rise next year. Dont forget keith parker, at ubs, told us the market would keep going up if we do get that tax cut. Also today german politics in chaos, Angela Merkel cant get a coalition together to form a government and football, marcina lynch, he stands for mexicos anthem, he sits for ours. And the president hes tweeting again. Hes watching Varney Company, we will show you. Varney company is about to begin. Here we go. Shotout from President Trump on the economy this morning. Here it is. Under President Trump Unemployment Rate will drop be
Have the upper hand with the democratses shut down the government if they dont get their way. Well see. Big show today, youll be shocked to learn just how much federal bureaucrats make the people who control our lives are laughing all the way to the bank. And business is on notice you got what you wanted. Now you have to invest in america. And heres another shot coming your way. The weather is going to get even colder. You know ive got to love doing this show. I came back from south florida they for this. Varney company is about to begin. Wow. The bitter cold continues. Frigid temperatures spread all across the country. Will you look at those windchills please, just look at that. And by the way, a big storm is expected to ham orer east coast all the way from georgia to e maine some forecasters calling this storm a bomb cyclone. Because its pressure is predigitted to fall so fast and bring heavy snow very, very quickly. Bomb cyclone theres a headline for you if theres even snow in the f
Thereabouts warrants probably saying something. What do you do . What do you do, there are an infinite amount of soft targets, and theres been steps taken the protect them but nothing perfect. You cant check every Single Person going onto the subway or underground in london. What you can do is you can have people be vigilant, Law Enforcement around some of these main transportation hubs like you do in places Like Washington and new york, for example, and you can have cameras. And thats going to really assist in this investigation, because london has a lot of these, and they have these in areas like transportation targets. So i think youre going to see them hone in on probably getting information about this suspect by watching him potentially on cameras that were in the station and that may have been how they were able to identify the suspect. Were not sure who this person is just yet, but i think youre going to see there probably is some footage of the suspect prior to the attack. Neil