Need 50 votes to pass. Surely the republicans can get these 50 votes. And here is this mornings president ial tweet. The budget passed late last night. 51 to 49, we got zero democrat votes with only rand paul, he will vote for tax cuts, voting against. Investors clearly share the confidence, expect another record high moments from now. Totally different subject. A passionate rebuke to Federico Wilson and the media from white house chief of staff john kelly, she was wrong, he was right. Wait till you hear what a tomp clinton aide had to say about it. These people have no shame, Varney Company about to begin. Most americans dont know when they lose marines, their buddies wraps them up and put them on a helicopter and sends them home. Dresses them in uniform with the medals that theyve earned, while thats happening, a casualty officer typically goes to the home, very early in the morning and waits for the first lights to come on. Casualty officer proceeds to break the heart of a family member. If you elect a call, the most difficult thing to imagine. The president usually writes a letter. I gave the explanation to our president three days ago. He elected to make phone calls, if youre not in the family, if youve never worn the uniform, if youve never been in combat, you cant even imagine how to make that call. I think he bravely does make those calls. Stuart well said, sir, john kelly, white house chief of staff delivering a personal defense of President Trumps phone call, widow of slain army soldier. Here is what the press secretary for hillarys 2016 campaign tweeted about general kelly, just look at this. Kelly isnt just an enabler of trump, hes a believer in him. That makes him as odious by the rest. Dont be distracted by the uniform. That young man called general kelly who lost a son in afghanistan, odious. How about that . We will have a lot more throughout the program. Lets get to the market, the senate cleared a big hurdle for tax reform. Look at the green arrows all across the board right there from the opening bell. Coming in jeff seca, how much higher are we going to go, is this the beginning yet of another leg up . Well, i think a market celebrating the fact that this you could never underestimate the incompetency of this congress and the fact that they were actually able to take a step forward and getting closer to the tax cuts, the market should celebrate. Right now, the fact that its this reached this level with the anticipation, all we have to hope for is that these tax cuts pass because if they dont, we have a big problem. Stuart i mean, odds are it passes. Im making the case, very tough to see the republicans turning it down at this late stage. Right. Stuart are you on board with that that it does indeed looks likely . It does look likely. Stuart is that important . I think its very important. It has we have to make more progress this year to get it passed this year. I think if its passed next year there will be disappointment. Stuart a lot more on the program. Byron york and your opinion, please, the budget has passed, im saying that makes tax cuts much more likely. I dont know about the timing of this, this year or next year, im not sure about that. Tax cuts look much more likely, what say you . It does make it much more likely. It would have been impossible if the budget didnt pass. It makes it much more likely. The reason to be a little pessimistic right now is because of the timing, because theres so little time left before christmas that pretty much everything has to go right with this process and it usually doesnt go right and also this is a budget bill you have to remember being written in secret by a team of republicans, its going to be passed by only republicans but whether they can all agree with each other by christmas is a real unopen question. Stuart now the republicans need 50 votes in the senate for the tax plan, when it appears in the senate, there are three negatives there, john mccain and roy moore, he could potentially vote no on tax, i see three negatives there, how to deal with that, please . On the first two Health Problems, i think its just a fact that, i mean, a number of the members of the senate over history have been quite elderly and a number of them have had Health Problems and managed to vote in spite of that. So i think people are a little surprised to see thad come to washington this week and vote and my guess is that hell be able to do it in the future. On the roy moore thing, youre right, roy moore is a big sort of a loose cannon, unknown factor here but, remember in the alabama race, both candidates were basically saying they supported the president tremendously. I find it impossible to believe that a newly sworn in senator moore would come to the u. S. Senate and first act would be to stick it to the president on taxes. Stuart im giving it 80, maybe 90 chance that, yes, we get a tax package. Are you with me on that . On that percentage . I am because of the deseparation factor. We have to remember just how catastrophic the failure to pass something on obamacare was which leads to which puts all this pressure on taxes because the thinking is weve messed up obamacare. If we mess up taxes, we are dead next year. So i think that they see this, meaning all the republicans see this as their chance to redeem themselves before going to the voters next year. Stuart yeah, the writing is on the wall. Thats my position. Byron, tauch, indeed, sir. Thank you, stuart. Stuart yes, sir. Lets get back to markets, we are going to see the rallies, would you look at that, ge, premarket down, what, 7 three quarters percent. On Conference Call this morning, the new guy coming in did not defend outright the payment of the current dividend, i should say. Jeff sica right here, would you buy it at 21 . I like John Flannery a lot. I like what hes saying, ge had become a very, very overly confusing entity. They were focused on too many businesses, they werent focusing on core competencies. John flannery is an essentialist, he believes in focusing on the strength, i think ge is going to bottom here. I think its going to be buyable here. This ceo has the talent to turn this tiet titan around and bring it to the point of relevancy. Stuart will you buy . Yes, i would by it and also theyre cutting expenses dramatically, so i would buy it but i would wait because he is going to do stuart would you buy it today at 21 or you will wait till im real close. He has to put out some more specifics on what expenses he intends to cut. Hes selling corporate jets and doing all that. Hes cutting billions of dollars of expenses. There could be some pain before bottoms out but i would say that that investors who are looking to go into it now are probably in a good spot, after he unrolls this, i honestly believe hes enough essentialist to really do drastic things because ge needed it. Ge was on life support and they were not relevant. They were going to become a dinosaur. Stuart lets see if you move the market. If it goes to 22, youll move the market. Liz a bear moving the market. [laughter] stuart thank you, jeff. I will bring you back when the market opens. Check this out, hiv positive man injecting himself with a homemade drug. Now, this is a gene therapy that showed promise in treating hiv, this method has not been approved by the fda, hes acting as his own guinea pig and streamed live on facebook, how about that . Dr. Mark seigal coming back to discuss. Latest on weinstein, a woman claimed she was assaulted in 2013, that means its within the statute of limitations to prosecuting rape. 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Yeah whoo yes get your domain today and get a free trial of gocentral. Build a better website in under an hour. Stuart profits and upbeat forecast from paypal, look at that. We are up 6 on that stock. That was before dollars at share at 71. Proctor and gamble shares fall short. Remember, this is a dow stock, you couple with ge and also down sharply, thats taking a lot of steam out of the dow, even though so dow is going to be up 90 points at the opening bell. We have to rally here. As for venezuela, well, there were elections for 23 state governor sunday, here is the headline from oped on foxnews. Com. Venezuelas democracy is dead. The author of that article mariana is with us now, fox news contributor. Okay, ive got it. Democracy dead, stone dead, gone, goodbye, they are still eating and functioning, we expected them to collapse, where are they getting the food and money . Collapse is a relative word. They are collapsed but still pumping some oil, so the government has some money, buying food, some food and distributing, the average venezuela has lost 20 pounds in the last few years, so theres government supplies and theres also some smuggling that goes over the borders from colombia. Theres food but obviously not enough food so theres a lot of malnutrition, you know, one of the big problems is the health care system. People cannot get medicines, basic medicines are hard to get. Lets remember also, stuart, that the president dictator Nicolas Maduro announced plan rabbit, plan that the government has to get people to breed rabbits in urban settings, apartments so they can eat the rabbits. This, i think, would be a source of protein, he told the country and this, i think, is a reflection of how bad the Food Shortages are. Stuart i keep expecting to it to collapse. Cuba or something. That hasnt happened yet. You expect the government to collapse and the reason the government hasnt collapsed is because, number one, they have the Intelligence Networks that were built by the cubans, one of the reasons they have close alliance with cuba. Cuba knows how to spy on people, monitor people, oppress people, they use all of those tactics to keep the country in line and then on top of that, they have all the weapons and they have control of the military, they have increased the size of National Guards to the same size as the military and a single role to have natural Guard National guard is to repress the population. Stuart we were expecting a collapse, real collapse, sounds like they have a firm grip on power and they stay. The only way they will leave now is if there is this revolution and i think one of the reasons why they keep saying, we are going to have another application is because they think that as long as theres a hope alive among the venezuelan people theres answer at ballot box, they will not have this civil war. I think every time they go through one of these exercises where basically they show that there is no option at the ballot box, increases the odds that theres going to be a very violent rebellion at some point, we dont know when. Stuart should we do anything about it, america . The u. S. Should continue with the international community, i think it has to be a multilateral approach to try to isolate venezuela. That is going to matter to the venezuelans in the long run, so i think thats a very important component. Stuart you keep saying the long run. I want it now. [laughter] stuart not going to happen, isnt it . A lot of venezuelans that agree with you. Stuart thank you very much. Thank you very much, indeed, for joining us. Thank you. Stuart here is a story for you, new ratings, nfl ratings, ratings overall down, ratings for teams, down, numbers, please. Liz this is what grabbed the attention of the team owners last week. This is what they were talking about with roger goodell, consistent drop in ratings across the board. When you look at the teams, 25 of the 31 teams saw numbers drop versus last year. They are talking steelers down 6 , giants and cowboys 7 . Patriots down 7 , jets down 37 . The other thing they were talking about, this is what is alarming the owners, they talk about core cutting and cutting into the ratings, no, core cutting the digital streaming numbers are improving, they are not improving at the rate that the tv numbers are dropping. So thats the issue that theyre really worried about in the nfl due to anthem protest. Stuart bottom line, overall people are against anthem protests and they dont watch. Significant portion not watching whether its streaming or tv, not watching. Liz thats correct. Stuart democrat mayor bill de blasio took a shot at amazon, he called the company destruct i have to communities. That came just hours after he made a bid to get amazon to build his new headquarters, Second Headquarters in the big apple. Theres a contradiction for you, i say. Two retail giants, walmart and lord taylor, to take on amazon, we will explain it after this stuart im showing you gold, 1,283 an ounce, down six bucks. Lets get to Harvey Weinstein, more on this. Lapd tweeting out this. Lapd robbery homicide has interviewed a potential Sexual Assault victim involving Harvey Weinstein in 2013 investigation ongoing, details, please. Liz now hes really in the danger zone, falls into the statute of limitations. Actress, her name has not been revealed said that he showed up in Beverly Hills hotel, grabbed her by the hair and forced her to have oral sex on him and raped her. Sixth woman accusing him of rape. 40 women so far. Bragged about power, told her not to fight him, he acted afterwards like nothing happen. She said she barely knew the man, it sickens me still. He made me feel like an object, like nothing happen with all of his power. Stuart very powerful stuff against weinstein. Liz London Police are investigating similar allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Very interesting, liz, thank you. Liz sure. Stuart walmart taking a shot at amazon, maybe teaming up with lord taylor. Jeff sica, what do you think about this, seems to me that walmart is the competition for amazon, period . Walmart is the king of brick and mortar, they do own that sector. The one thing thats evident to them, they have been playing catchup with amazon. They have not been the lead on this but they are beginning to learn partnering with Luxury Brands or brands in particular that have a certain level of success makes perfect sense for walmart because keep in mind, once walmart is able to is able to enhance these this brandingtype strategy, they have one of the biggest trucking fleets in the entire country. They can begin to execute on delivery and going to price competition, so amazon is the king, but but walmart is making some strides and im very happy. I think they are finally learning. Stuart i see the stock this morning premarket getting close to 87 a share now. Not too long ago it was around 70, 72, 73 and then as start to respond to amazon, right now its 86. 69. Keep in mind that amazon is going into brick and mortar with whole foods and walmart is going into, you know, into this branding strategy. Stuart walmart used to be cheap, thats it, now lord taylor. Interesting stuff. Stay there. 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I can say clearly, this is a rally all across the board. Oh, wait for it, General Electric, a disappointing Financial Report and the stock has opened down 5 . Premarket it feels at 21, it just opened at 22. Thats interesting. Profits fell short for ge. Now the apple watch, the cell feature, it was mysteriously, mysteriously blocked in china. Apple up 60 cents on that one. Toyota and lexus led reliability survey, only one american car in top 10. Its friday morning, who is with us, elizabeth mcdonald, jeff sica and dr martin. Dr, you say . The Senate Finally passed the budget resolution thats going to allow them to push through tax bill with only a 5060 v