we will tell you what happens straight ahead. >> first commercial grown delivery, markets looking to rebound from yesterday's fed selloff. take a look, dow industrial up 50 points as you see. nasdaq and s&p also higher this morning. in europe investors are waiting on the bank of england this morning. a decision expected this morning. we will bring it to you as soon as it hits the tape. meanwhile dax index of two-thirds of a percent. the ftse in london down a fraction. in asia fractions lower, nikkei up a fraction, staying in positive territory near yearly highs. hang seng down one and three quarters percent in hong kong. finally here, star wars rogue, we have sneak peek, promise no spoilers. mike huckabee is here, peter. >> nice to be with you. maria: so nice to have you onset, governor. i like your holiday tie. >> i only get to wear it occasionally, so here it is. dagen: i wore red for you. >> thank you, darling. i appreciate it. dagen: we argue but we love each other. maria: technology meeting, quick observations, amazing how they were so against donald trump and he assembles him in the room and has wonderful discussion with them. i think donald trump is truly a transformational president. yesterday we saw a little piece of that. we want to talk about that coming up. debate about who was sitting at the table. we will do that. coming up, joining us ceo of delta. forbes media steve forbes also with us. senior for the trump transition team and rnc strategist and former chief of staff under president obama and former u.s. secretary of clinton. and steve moore. big show today. stay right there. we kick it off with story. 59% of the people feel hopeful though expectations remain low on some of his promises. 34% say that trump will truly build a wall, down from 54% from may. interesting that people are believing that less actually. 39% of people they think trump will actually deport illegal immigrants, that's also down compared to what it was in may, 50%. results coming as trump comes to hershey, pennsylvania tonight. governor huckabee, we are happy to have you all week, all day, rather, because in terms of thank you tour, has been something else. >> it's been great. one of the things that donald trump is doing and it's very smart. he's getting out of the bubble. i hope he does this when he's president. they live in a bubble and they don't connect to real people. it's not so much because the people benefit from it, although they do, the real thing is donald trump benefits by it. instant feedback, better than a poll going to a crowd and that gives him -- >> i think it's a great idea. we have this wonderful warm outreach to the american voter. it's a great idea. it's what he does best. >> he does it without the filter to have media. the media is never going to treat him fairly. never help load a gun that's pointed at your own. if donald trump gives information to the media and trust him to get it to the people, t pointing a gun in his own head and he helped load the cartridges. his tweets are important, facebook posts that he does is direct today people is a lot smarter than trusting a media that hates his guts an will never treat him fairly. maria: not -- what about the media -- dagen: and they're going to be called as much as we hammered hillary clinton about not doing press conferences, he hasn't had one since late july and so people are going to be calling and the one on his business -- separating from his business is postponed. maria: it's supposed to be today. dagen: now sometime in january. i think what we wanted from hillary clinton, the press is going the want from donald trump. >> he's doing interviews, i think he will do press conferences but it's stupid for him to go out there and face a firing squad. he goes there unarmed. that's not smart. dagen: he loves. [laughter] >> it's about rewarding bad behavior. when they start being journalists and practicing their craft, he can go to them and have audience with them. maria: yesterday's meeting is sparking debate. trump met with titans yesterday. this is what trump and mike pence said about the meeting. >> i'm here to help you guys do well. you're doing well right now and i'm honored by the bounce. everybody has too like me a little bit. we are going to make fair trade deals. >> momentum and the pace of this transition will continue forward all the way into the holidays as we assemble a team that will make america great again starting january 20. maria: what do you think of what you heard? >> the line is sort of buried way down as they agreed to meet quarterly. he needs this group. our defense is going to have to change. you're going to hear things like the third offset and technology is going the play a key role in that. also a key role that technology can play in making government more efficient. this is a great start, frankly, opening up with a genuine i want to help, marks a man who is reaching out and trying to bring the tech community in. maria: what about gary cohen, goldman sachs president will leave economic council and serve as top economic adviser. this position does not require senate confirmation. do you know gary? >> i know gary, the last three goldman sachs head, steve freedman worked in the bush administration and bob in the clinton administration. what do you get with a goldman person, they can match markets and the economy and put them together to create jobs. they know how it works. the other thing -- you heard about the invisible hand. they can deal with the invisible foot. every so often they come and know how to manage. maria: big position. someone savvy in markets in that role. >> we were sort of exposed and kicked out for a while and we are back. maria: criticism with all the goldman sachs, i thought that meant draining the swamp. but he said draining the swamp actually politicals from the swamp. maria: he talked about it as well. i used to call it the washington access to power in which there was incredible commune of power that existed between wall street and washington and we saw what happened. the rest of the country got screwed over and this is why donald trump is president. if he does not somehow make sure that there's a balance between the wall street guys and the washington guys and the ideas that came out of middle america, i think could be problematic for him. maria: does it bother with him that his sons and daughter were at the meeting. this is what the left is talking about this morning and the skeptical media, donald, jr. and eric trump who he said would run business were at the table yesterday. >> what is he going to do, surround with people who he doesn't trust? maria: they're trusted soldiers. >> it ought to be refreshing that you have a father who has this kind of wonderful relationship with his adult children. there are fathers all over america who would like to have the kind of relationship with nald trump has. i don't see it as an issue. dagen: that will have to stop once inaugurated and separated himself of businesses, appearance of particularly eric and donald, jr. at the meeting. >> that's different. dagen: this is -- make no mistake, the trump organization is donald trump's business and he is the chief executive of that business and so they've got very little time to separate. in fact, this is financial disclosure that trump members were part owner of 32 of 500 assets listed. donald trump owns all of that. the family members will not be able to -- will not have seats at the table after inaugurated because again appearance and separation and trump and his business. maria: i agree with you. he has to have the clear line. you would expect that it wouldn't happen after he is in office. agreed? >> i agree. i also think he's underestimated the complexity of the task. it's one thing if you have a whole bunch of stock and you sell it and put it over trustee, to your point, dagen, an italian opera of connected agencies, giving them over is not something like that. dagen: the fact they were sitting on the table with the greatest ceo's of technology companies would be a problem certainly down the road. >> never forget that federal law is like a news around your neck, it really is restrictive. dagen: again, i think the american people were fed up with the complex of interests and abuse of power with hillary clinton as secretary of state and her husband and the clinton foundation, i think there has to be a clean break between mr. trump and the trump organization. maria: people don't want to see government as a family business. >> it sure don't. he's really got -- i agree with you completely. maria: there's no evidence that he won't, but he's got to get this right. we will be watching. dagen: amen. maria: fox business is going to take you live from thank president elect's thank you tour. do join us for the personal coverage tonight on fox business. take a short break. big show as you know, bracing for the cold across the country is next. deep freeze sets in. massive data breach, yahoo confirms more than one billion customer accounts were compromised. what you need to know if you have a yahoo account afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. maria: bubdle up, arctic blast is sweeping the country. cheryl casone with the details. cheryl: a hundred million americans are braising for frigid conditions today. temperatures in 20's and 30's in states but with the windchill it'll feel below zero. stranded drivers across the city, the area expecting, well, more snow today. pictures from there. yahoo is reeling from latest data breach. the company disclosed yesterday that in 2013 hackers stole information from one billion users, that's billion with the b, the breach now dwarfs the 2014 hacks that yahoo disclosed earlier which part of this one was the largest ever theft of personal data and this news does cast doubt frankly over verizon 5 billion-dollar deal too buy the company. yahoo shares right after news broke last night. meanwhile the town of bunkerhill, indiana no longer has police department after marshal and four deputies resigned, they complained of unethical requests from the town council. board members were serving their own agenda, county deputies are going to step in to protect residents until the city hires a new marshal. and people want to know more about president-elect donald trump. the president elect was the most searched person in 2016 according to google. the company released the list yesterday. hillary clinton coming in second ahead of michael phelps the swimmer, senator bernie sanders and steve avery, popular netflix documentary, making a murderer. the massive jackpot slightly contribute today that this year, in january whopping $1.5 million. prince was the second in the last following the death and next is hurricane matthew. pokemon go and slitter.io. maria: search list was interesting. pokemon go. you heard the list. did you do pokemon go. >> i never played pokemon go. dagen: you threw away your southerner card. >> if you look at people lined up to buy tickets, how come it's not investment bankers? maria: maybe you're right. >> i do look for pokemon gone. i want that thing gone. maria: new prime minister pledging his government. is it a bird, it's a plane, it's your package. first prime air drone delivery, details next maria: welcome back i italian banking sector next. >> italy's good morning has long been in denial about how the situation is but today we are hearing report that is the treasury has earmarked about a hundred billion dollars, 15 of that for capital increases, 85 for guaranties and that's in order to prop up italy's weakest, weakest lenders. first and foremost among those banks would be the world's oldest bank founded just to give you a sense several years before christopher columbus discovered america. it needs to raise 5 billion euros by the year's end. before a bail-out actually does happen, the bank wants to take one last stab at raising funds privately and they are waiting for italy financial services, authority to sign off on a proposal to turn debt into equity and put that on the market, there is really -- little realistic hope that the private investors will save paschi, the last has been all but wiped out. the combination of mismanagement and corruption, scored lowest in terms of performance out of 51 european banks tested in july, obviously that has an effect on the entire economy. >> it's not lending money and not lending money, they cannot afford one single new nonperforming loan so they are scared and so they are blocked. it's suffering for that. >> he was referencing, maria, some of the other banks that are on the verge of bankruptcy. $370billion in debt and that could cause major crash in the euro. there's no sense that weak italian banks would have con contagent. the president said that this will not ignite another euro crisis, maria. maria: amy kellogg in milan. all that debt has been a problem for a long time but came to a head right now. >> they made a couple of bad decisions a long the way. they did not recapitalize in 2008. one out of three of their lopes is not nonperforming and first loan 20 years before columbus sailed so they have been in the business for a long time but they are trying to raise $5 billion, the whole bank is worth $700 million. very unlikely that they will get there from the private market. they had one insurance company convert for a billion dollars but they have a long road to hold. maria: they need a bail-out? >> one of the things in italy that they force to do, if you're a bond holder, you have to pay in. if you look at the bank, the people who have owned their bonds, individuals and a lot of them are going to get stung by this. maria: does this impact the u.s. banking system in. >> it does not that's not going to create a big problem. it's not like deutsche bank. it's a localized infection. we have just seen evidence piling up, mounting that is just not working. you can't have 17 federal reserves inside one currency. it doesn't work that way. dagen: dollar at 14-year high yestday. maria: we will take a short break. big day for delta airlines today. the company having investor day. the top stock in the service sect o but how will that affect delta' profit margin. we are going to find out what the company is going to tell investors before investor day. may the force be with you, star wars rouge, blasting in theaters today what would be another disney masterpiece. back in a minute afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. ♪ he has a sharp wit. a winning smile. and no chance of getting an athletic scholarship. and that is why you invest. the best returns aren't just measured in dollars. td ameritrade. 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i will be there for you. maria: highly anticipated film is expect today bring from across the galaxy. stay with us through all of that coming up. big day for delta airlines. it has been incredible stock in the entire transportation industry, in the service sector it is winning the support of even warren buffet who became a big investor. shares of delta are up 35% just in the last three months. there maybe some challenges in the new year. we are going to talk about it right now. joining us now is the ceo of delta airlines. ed, good to see you. maria: you have investor, can you lay out the most important things you're expecting to tell investors today? >> the most important thing is we want them to know we are reliability on the product, great work on the delta team and leading to all-time improve not just operational scores but financial record breaking results as well. maria: in the stock price that we are seeing, to what do you attribute and in your stock in particular? >> we struggled in pricing. about two years, in the last few months we have seemed to find stability with pricing going forward. fuel costs are on the rise, our industry and not just delta. creating better platform for investors to see the profit picture going into 2017. maria: you did a great deal with pilots, how that changes the margin story? >> our margins are, the year on year have actually improved this year, even with the new labor set deals, we are going to set 6 billion-dollar profit target for 2017, third year in a row we hit a 6 billion-dollar profit level and not something that the industry seem to get there. maria: how did you get there? >> it's the people. i cannot tell you how proud i am of the delta team. 233 days of this year that we have not canceled a flight on delta. maria: that's incredible. >> 28 of the 30 days were perfect completion. when you run outstanding -- four times more than airlines combined. when you run the level of excellence and performing, the bags arriving on time, flights are on time, customers are happy and as a result investors are happy. maria: that's wonderful, how do you do it when competitors cancel flights all of the time? >> make sure you have parts provisioning in place, you have aircraft ready to go. maria: what are you expecting in the holidays? >> we are seeing run, pricing is held firm during the period. it's going to have record holiday period. maria: are you talking about individual or business? >> both. maria: what about business because i feel like there was a lot of uncertainty going into the election. do you expect that there will be unleashing of business and unleashing of activity that perhaps was put on the shelf for so many months? >> i think so. i'm sense -- sensing real optimism. investment wasn't where it needed to be. there's been improvement. maria: infrastructure, what do you make of that given the economic plans that we are hearing from the trump administration? >> we welcome it. we think it's the right thing to focus on. delta, we have been doing, reliability we have because we have been investing in our business. laguardia in new york, in the midst of working with governor cuomo on the new laguardia airport for our facility and we have the same thing going on in la, seat -- seattle, atlanta, things we already have been doing and we are going to do a lot more. in the next five years we will be spending $10 billion in our airports. maria: wow. you mean governmental, public and partnerships? >> collectively over $10 billion, but at tend of the day that comes back to the cost of delta and that's the right thing to do. maria: terrific. i'm glad laguardia is a focus, because of its size, all the of the planes flying in there's constantly delays at laguardia so you probably need a better hub there? >> improved tarmac space, improved amenities for our customers, it's going to be an exciting development. maria: you've been increasing the offerings to customer by testing return to free meals to family class and let's track bags, that's another interesting one. as united, they are charging passengers to use overhead bin. is that one of the things that you feel is really paying off coming back? >> yes, it is. as we've improved the profit outlook for the company, we've had a very simple motto, for every dollar we make, we take half of it and put it and put nit the business and improve returns to owners. that 50% that we put back is close to $4 billion in 2017 alone. we never want to get this business where it was ten years ago. we all know what that was like and that experience is behind us, we remember it and we are going to continue to make improvements and make sure the company stays? a strong way going forward. maria: this is a lot of investment. new offerings costing significant money in technology, app cost $15 million. are you going to raise prices? >> price have been down in the past year. we have been able to take savings from fuel. fuel has fallen in half. we reinvested a lot of that back into the business. prices have been down 5% this year. the outlook for next year is probably going to rise a bit but in line with inflationary pressures an i think it's going to be a strong year. maria: what did you make of the trump commentary of the boeing air force one project? obviously the president elect slammed the company for the price tag on the airplanes, what do you make of that criticism in terms of the cost of the boeing jets? >> i don't know what air force one costs, obviously. it's a specialized -- we are the second largest operating boeing equipment in the world, we have a great relationship with boeing. we negotiate with boeing all of the time and we don't think it's unusual. maria: you don't think the price is outside? >> i wouldn't have an idea of what one of those costs. maria: now up to 12.6 billion; is that right? how well the trump's policies affect that? >> well, if we are going to stimulate economic growth and improvement in the outlook, it's going to continue to generate cash for us. one things i'm personally excited about is tax reform and the opportunity to lower the burden, not just domestically but internationally. we are a big international player and we are playing with one hand tied behind our backs on taxes. we are investing a billion dollars a year in our pension every single year and we will get it well paid off in time. maria: if you get the corporate tax rate down to 15% which is obviously what donald trump is pushing and then you get the -- the rollback of regulations -- are you expecting any rollback of regulations in your sector? >> oh, absolutely. we are probably one of the most heavily regulated industries within business and we are excited about our incoming dot secretary elaine chao. you get rollback of regulations, there's analyst that says that's going to bump up earnings of s&p 500 of 20%. >> i think that's realistic. we can put it back to more oduct and continue to invest in our future. it's the virtue of cycle that we want to continue to generate here. maria: obviously we have seen a ton of consolidation. is there more to come or do you think what we have now in the sky, the capacity is appropriate? >> we are in a stable place. we have four four major airlines. we continue to hit hard with each other. since 2007 another stat i'm most proud of, that our employee labor costs are gone up 80%. maria: wow. >> 80%. >> 30% of the cost, right? >> absolutely. people are receiving returns of hard work and as a result of that they are doing a great job taking care of customers. maria: ed, you seem to be making everybody happy, customers, workers, shareholders, good for you. you're doing a good job. >> if you keep everybody in balance and keep that circle, we will do well. maria: what are you expecting in '17? >> '17 is more of the tame. we -- same. i think we are looking at a similar -- similar for 2017. fuel costs probably going to go up a bit. i think it's probably run a little bit fast in the last 30 days. 50-f -- 50 to 60-dollar range. maria: good to see you. ceo at delta. later in the program we have the norwegian, and creepy or convenience, sharing pictures, back in a minute afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. when you're close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? 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cheryl: she made the entire thing up, maria. she's 18 year's old. she claimed that trump supporters targeted her and police gave her many opportunities to recant her story and kept stick to go it and finally yesterday she admits she made the whole thing up. she cited family problems as to why she lied. another headline this morning, ashley madison, the website that promotes cheating on your spouse or significant other, they settled, the website reached the settlement with the federal trade commission, 13 states and the district of colombia, data breach led to several cases of extortion of ashley madison client. the website had poor data security practices an mislead customers about how secure their personal information was going to be. amazon taking another step into the future. they have made their first successful delivery using a drone. they dropped off a bag of popcorn. there's the individual -- video. 13 minutes to complete. 13 minutes. prime air service. drones are part of transportation network that amazon is hope to go create to compete with ups and with fedex. as a new feature on instagram that allows you to save posts from users. photo video will be used with private tab with user profile. the interesting thing about this, the person that share it is post will be able to tell that you actually saved it, could be kind of weird but that's okay. instagram says that this can help people stay on top of new ideas and follow your friends, but the truth is when you see your friend, a post from ugly sweaters yesterday, you want to keep it for yourself, and i did. [laughter] maria: i saw that tweet. thanks, cheryl. coming up in the movie theater not far, far away, disney highly anticipated rouge one, are you going to see it? back in a minute afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. this is where i trade andrs. manage my portfolio. since i added futures, i have access to the oil markets and gold markets. okay. i'm plugged into equities- trade confirmed- and i have global access 24/7. meaning i can do what i need to do, then i can focus on what i want to do. visit learnfuturestoday.com to see what adding futures can do for you. >> tell me you have a backup plan? maria: and the time has arrived. that was a clip from rouge one, star wars story. michael tamara. micheal: good morning, so excited. maria: spin-off of the iconic series. >> first stand-alone million. it's going the rule the box office, pulling 150 million domestically and another 150 million internationally. reviews have been fantastic. i saw 20 minutes of footage two weeks ago, people are going to see things they haven't seen before in star wars movie fr. what i've seen it's beautifully shot and all the familiar element that is are people going back for more on the movies. maria: should we feel it's a continuation of the last one? >> no, it's one of several stand-alone movies. it's set before the 1977 original a new hope. maria: you had had a chance to sit down. >> i did. what it was like to be part of this iconic franchise. >> whatever i do, i do it to protect you. do you understand? >> i understand. >> what is it like for the director to step into the shoes of star wars? >> it's a high bar, but a strange thing happens because i grew up with a lot of kids my anal and you watched star wars and you get onset and suddenly you just feel like a kid and you feel like you've gone back home and it's actually a really comfortable place to make a movie. >> you got the call, you made the cut, you'll be part of the star wars universe, what was your first reaction? >> i became a 6-year-old,i started crying, shouting, jumping and then they said, you cannot tell anyone. i said, it's so unaffair. you give me the news and i cannot call my friends and i have to play cool when i go back home and they said, yes. >> i didn't have to leave london for five months away from my kids and then i asked my kids and they said absolutely. 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[laughter] >> 97.6 chance of failure. >> he means well. >> i believe the fact that he's a believer, you to feel it and he play it is coolest -- >> i fear nothing. >> are you with me? >> all the way. micheal: i have chills, maria bartiromo. maria: it's fascinating that you speak with the stars. the celebrity is the star wars franchise. micheal: familiar face or two. fans really jazzed up. maria: looks fantastic. are you going to see it this weekend? >> two friends of mine. my friend tommy the roach and chris, the governor is laughing over there. maria: tommy the roach. >> you're not fooling anyone, tommy, we bought the tickets a month ago. experience with friends and family and the whole thing. maria: all right. i am going to try to go to. it's going to be really crowded. >> yeah. you can come with us. maria: all right. michael tamara. thank you so much. the amazing company that let's you choose adventure with pop-up hotels. we will be back in a minute good thursday morning everybody. thank you so much for joining us today. it is thursday, december 15. your top stories 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. a shocking report second report says vladimir putin was pushing the -- personally involved in influencing the vote. >> everything from the from the republican nominee himself to call on him himself. based on whatever facts or sources he have available to him. the russia was involved. it is not particularly surprising. the president-elect appears to be prioritizing russia over a bunch of other important issues. this comes after the cia forced the cancellation of a intelligence briefing. we will tell you all of the details coming up. a deep freeze nuts and across the country. at affecting 100 million americans are for the pacific northwest aldwych in new england. the forecast coming up. guns in the classroom. the colorado school district allowing teachers to carry. slamming the brakes on self driving and california. they're telling it where it has to stop its self driving program after one of its cars ran a red light. amazon echo hitting hotel rooms. the putting the device in every single room. choose your own adventure. we haven't luxury there off of the earlier highs. mix performance as of this morning. they're related to the federal reserve. it is up about two thirds of 1%. hitting a 14 year low against the dollar. the ft 100 is up to diffraction. with the exception of japan the ek average up a fraction there. it's great to head y'all here. i know i want to get his read on something else taking the credit for the postcard. it's what student -- stuart varney was talking about the other day. will talk with him coming up. the trump transition team sean spicer is with us. the former space -- chief of staff. bill daley is with daly is with us. former academic advisor and trump economic advisor steve moore. take a look at price controls in the pharmaceutical industry under trump administration. we hope you'll stay with us. we kick it off right now for the fourth consecutive year. he topped forbes list of the most powerful people. this comes as intelligence officials say he was personally involved in an election hack. tell his wife vladimir putin tops your list again. he doesn't have much power in terms of the size of russia. he is using it very aggressively in europe and syria and elsewhere. it's amazing on that list that even though he hasn't taken the oath of office donald trump is already number two. he dominates the news more than anyone else. most people believe that he is the single ricst pson in the world because he takes a cut of everything in terms of the businesses they create. >> he also knows there is no way he can retire on a 4o1k. he is to stay in power or he will be visiting another part of the universe. the second to be here on earth. he's get a hold on as long as he can. it's not the money per se is the power that he wields and with a weak hand he has done it brilliantly. the pass past 70 of the current administration it's amazing obama is now a number 49 on the list. it was very passive in terms of foreign policy. forty-nine for obama and two for donald trump. i think it's a terrible list. i'm not on that list and i'm very offended. i guess you been in the top. we respected your privacy. that's probably what it was. the russians are the centerpiece of the wall right now. you make the point they're not that big of country they're not typically instructs terms of economic power but he's using what he has very effectively. even to the point amid lip manipulating the democrats of the u.s. to believe that he stole the election. that kind of imagery is certainly good for him. let's talk about the facts here. i think you're right. it's just important to say what is facts in fiction. the fbi and the cia but then that was canceled. so has the russian hack investigation become politicized. it was always politicized. do they hack the election or not. the point is even they hacked the dnc and they were able to get into that and everyone who had that information it was not the russians they got their information from it. it revealed more about how they were operating than it did to change people's votes. the only people reporting where the conservative news sites. the mainstream media largely ignored the content. the real scandal which is got very little policy d is a so-called recount. 30% of the precincts you more votes counted than the people that are registered. in terms of hacking. the russians try to hack everything the iranians try to hack everything. welcome to the real world. russia needs to pay for that if they hacked. the cia and it just goes to motor. there were the reports that the motive was to help donald trump get elected. that's in dispute. most of them came out when they show up at the house intelligence committee and give the information and evidence to that. the only person who i heard you say that was hillary clinton. there is no hard and fast consensus that yet. they were not able to hack voting machines they tried to get information consider this the kremlin probably thought like everyone else hillary's can win. and by doing what they were doing there there can we get her. >> a majority of voters believe in that rushing that rushing hacking me no difference in the election. 32 percent of register voters donald trump 59 present that russia had no effect. i think this is a left talking point that keeps they don't want to believe the donald trump one. russia hacked the united states. we have to with to make them pay for that. that's kind of the point. is going on and on and we do have a new administration coming in that lots a closer relationship. are we not trying to do that. we've expanded the battlefield. the intelligence agencies clearly do not agree. the 17 agencies are not in alignment. i think we need to figure out is it russia or someone posing as russia. be concerned about russia and being fearful of russia particularly what the i do think everybody's hacking everybody. i don't think we should stand by and let them get away with it. in terms of russia tillerson is supposed to be a pussy cat. he's been negotiated with that his whole life. i think it's ridiculous. i think this guy is going to be quite a brilliant pick. he knows what he's dealing with. >> you don't just get social promotion. there's a young man in yemen. they tried to bulldoze him in the middle of the night. he found a way to say no way in cap the deal. when they have mad dog and that we should call this guy a t rex. i have conversations privately with friends who don't work in the news media or politics that they were talking about rex tillerson. and they said he was acting in the best interest of the american people. nonsense can happen. he said in st. petersburg. it's so funny to hear he's the have of the largest oil company. he has ties to anybody that has oil. it's just so ridiculous. it also goes to show the appointments he's making are not under the 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rex tillerson or betsy devos at education ben carson at hud these are world-class people at the top of their game there can bring real change to washington. >> there are trillions of dollars worth of federal lands out in the west. they don't produce anything. and they are the responsibility of the federal government do you think under the trump administration there would be at least an openness to privatizing some of those lands using the mineral and natural resources and using them for commeial purposes so that we can pay down the debt we could put some of that money on the tax rolls. there is an extraordinary opportunity. is that on the agenda. >> good morning governor, there is. i'm not sure what the exact structure would be i think he fully understands the wealth that exists within our country in terms of natural resources and we could be utilizing thatte wealth for our nation and more importantly grow jobs, good paying jobs with americans. >> i'm not talking about using natural gas and oil reserves and also opening up some of those lands for timber harvest which i know some environmentalists would think is terrible. we are not managing at those for us in a way that will protect us from wildfires. and western states know that. i just hope that one of the things that the new interior secretary can do is bring back perspective and it would be helpful for everybody including the environmentalists. currently holds some of these resources they you are talking about that we can it be could be utilizing to create american jobs. but also do it in a way that you're talking about the preserves and protects the environment. >> sean, it's good to see you. reince preibus in an interview the new coming chieff staff was talking about changing the way that the trump administration will act with the press looking at that. but what kind of relationship is trump going to have with the media as he loves giving a press conference but he hasn't done one since late july. >> a couple of things. chairman of previous -- chairman preakness was talking about the daily press conferences in the answer he gave and something you've seen from president-elect trump from day one is that he's going to bring real change. looking at everything will think we do and how we conduct business in washington and figuring out whether that's the best way to do it. i think one of the things that he has recognized whether it's on twitter or facebook or instagram is that he can have a real conversation with the american people talk directly to them and he has realized that while the press place a very import part in our democracy he can have a very direct conversation. things like that are going to be looked at. are you expected to be press secretary. to keep working as hard as i can but as every buddy else knows when mr. trump makes a decision he lets have been known. we would love to see you there. you've not gotten the not yet. >> i have not been asked by mister trump to serve in any capacity but if he asked me to do anything including a sweep of the driveway i would do it. yesterday you have the trump technology summit. you know the transition team. ever a number of people in the cabinet so far. like a gary cohn in the economic team. tell us how it was yesterday. you look at the number of folks that were there these are the titans of tech. but more importantly they represent a massive sector in our economy both in terms of economic growth and job creation. and as a it has been noted in the past almost no one besides his staff have been supportive of them. he brought them together and said what can i do as president to help you as a business grow and hire more americans and he sat down and he talked about education repatriation of taxes, regulations things in infrastructure. things that will help them grow but more importantly but help our nation grow economically and help us hire american workers. those companies aren't taking their business overseas. why were trumps kids in the room. >> they play an important role with their father. on the website they are part of the transition team. and lo and behold to a lot of people we brought the press into the meeting to show everyone who was there he is very clear. his children provide him counsel. he believes they offer great ideas and opinions to him. they are a key part of his decision. i only ask because there is debate this morning and he's been very clear that donald trump junior and eric trump will be running his businesses do you expect that they will be with him in most meetings when he is in fact the president. >> i don't. but i also think he has been very clear that he will have an announcement in january and he will lay out the delineation between his business and how he will do that with his desire to focus 100 percent on the american people in this country. how do you look at the next couple thousand appointments that you have to make. what can you tell us about what is coming. the 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here. and in asia overnight. markets are broadly lower. that is squeaking out again. when it comes to the economy they have more there more faith in business than government. more than half of voters say that they trust market forces and private businesses secretary of commerce under president clinton. bill, good to see you. you've been in business and government. what do you think about that. i thing it's pretty obvious. that's the way the mac and american people have always felt. people who always pick the private sector over the politicians. they believe it is a private sector into their own activities. they believe in the success of the economy. they can encourage growth and i think president-elect trump is trying to do. the people would not give them credit for success. are in alignment with the interests of the country. what do you think about all of these business guys i raise this because the other day boeing having done that big a deal with iran obviously they were encouraged to do that by the obama administration a big deal for them to sell all of those planes may not be in the interest of america. certain offices have a pattern of having a business people in them. the state department is a rare exception. but the challenge for each of these people will be to make that transition from their individual focus which was as ceo just right or interest not just the united states of america but the free world in which we lead. especially mr. tillerson. to make that transition that he doesn't just speak for a company obviously he speaks for the united states of america the u.s. is a point person basically for those positions that the rest of the free world who stands with us especially our allies. and wilbor ross will be very much in charge of trade and trade issues. the number one priority is sustained that three to 4% of gdp. we haven't had enough of growth. the number one priority is can we tax reform. we think by lowering of the corporate tax rate we will make u.s. corporations credibly competitive. and creates jobs. and of course that was steven mnuchin sitting with wilbur ross the commerce secretary. what are your thoughts on his role had. he's been very strong on the need for reform and trade policy. to see the implemented it is easy to say it difficult to do without having an impact not only on us but also with our allies. the commerce secretary is about trying to build exports to the rest of the world and help our economy. i think he has spent his life a very successful and has been very aggressive against trade violations that he believes his company has been affected by. i is to switch and represent the entire united states government they are his individual policies. i think that is a serious question one learns in business you never threaten unless you really willing to do that. if someone calls your bluff you better be willing to act. implement in tariffs is that major problem for our economy not just to punish someone else. it's a threat but you better not make it unless you're willing to do it. what the u.s. but the tariff on chinese goods coming into the u.s. what happens. it cost the american consumers more in the process. over the long term the theory is you will build up demand in the near-term. we are in a global world and many of our companies the successful end of the largest employers are dependent upon that ability. let me turn to the democrats. we have a senior source seen in the party is scrambling to prevent two of their members from taking a post in the trump administration. they are willing to give up their seat to join the trump train. getting a member of the opposite party to have the administration. that is an obvious thing that the president will do. i think this belief that the democratic party is in somewhat cast four years ago after a permit from the one they said the republican party was finished and had to do a whole redo. and every recommendation that he put forward basically donald trump did it follow follow and he won the presidency. when you look at the fact that ford is continuing -- considering doing more jobs in the u.s. same thing with carrier. then you have softbank investing $50 billion in the u.s. many had more talk of companies trying to do the u.s. and 25,000 jobs in saint how come obama didn't pick up the phone and call carrier how come he didn't do all of these things. first of all a new admission she gets a lot of leeway coming in. some people would interpret and it remains to be seen how far the president president-elect goes with us. they will view that as a trap. carrier which is owned by the large know right now everybody is enthusiastic about it. but if a company honestly believes they should do manufacturing somewhere else because of their needs around the world. if a managed economy. and that's with the chinese do. we've never had that. i'm not saying that he wants to manage the economy but he wants to be much more aggressive which most conservatives and conservative economist would have said that's not the right thing to do. obviously if you are one of the 800 that's important. but if you take that pattern and you take it to every industry it's a different sort of world economically that were getting into and i would say most of them historically would not be for that sort of aggressiveness. they did put out the tweets to boeing. their programs were too expensive. do you think he's threatening the companies. obviously he's upset about the cost. if that is what the president's gonna do as opposed to saying to the pentagon i want you to cut cost we need to cut more cost out of that. if you the hell then. where they were funded by that. there can cut corporate taxes as i can work. do you think. it remains to be seen. they to come out again. he didn't have a congress that would deal with them in many ways at all. it's a given fact as you know that the leadership said our game plan is to do nothing. one of the things the 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transition will continue forward all the way into the holidays as we assemble a team that will make america operate again starting january 20th. maria: we'll look at the meeting coming up. deep freeze settling in. colt temperatures affecting 100 million americans from the northwest to new england. yahoo! disclosing a new hack affecting one billion accounts. what you need to know if you have a yahoo! account. the. outsourcing jobs after employees say disney and carnival cruises had american workers training their foreign replacements. strong dollar weighing on the futures. the dollar a the a 14-year high. the dow jones industrial average up well off the highs of the morning. looks like we could see further selling on the heels of yesterday's selloff around the federal reserve. the feds raised interest rate as quart every a. cac, dax in germany up. london is down a frack shun. asian markets down except for japan. burger king says you can trade in your gifts for a whopper. details ahead. boy, we heard of gifting. now we have trading for whoppers. we have dagen mcdowell. mike huckabee is here. former goldman sachs partner peter kernen is here. great to see everybody. you like the whopper story. >> that's great. i'm going to get a lot of whoppers. >> i have a whole lot of presents i can turn in. maria: we had some ugly christmas present yesterday. >> don't get caught. >> by the person that gave you a gift. maria: art laffer is here along with trump economic advisor steve moore. we'll get the 90 grit on trump's economic plan from those two. chairman anzio of allergan, brent saunders, weighing in on what the drug industry is weighing for under a trump presidency. we have norwegian airlines president and stuart varney. one day after his meeting with top technology leaders blake burman has the story. reporter: good morning, maria. you could call this a tech truce yesterday. president-elect meeting hour 1/2 with some of the country's biggest leaders, tim cook, jeff bezos, elon musk, larry page, cheryl samburg, you see some of them there. long time supporter peter thiel orchestrated the event and shaped the guest list. coincidentally not invited to this meeting executives from twitter a transition aide saying on your shore repatriation offshore money indeed one of the topics discussed. mr. trump started gathering saying he wants an open door policy. >> anything we can do to help this go along and we're going to be there for you. you call my people, you call me, doesn't make any difference. we have no formal chain of command around here. reporter: many from within the president-elect's top inner circle were in the meeting including his adult sons. mr. trump said they will be the ones from here on out to run the trump organization. that had some critics saying this is another potential conflict of interest. kellyanne conway last night called that criticism, quote, unfair. meantime, maria, mr. trump hits the road as next stop of the thank you tour will take him to hershey, pennsylvania. maria. maria: blake, thanks so much. we'll be live following him on the thank you tour tonight. joining us is reagan economic advisor art laffer along with trump economic advisor steve moore. gentlemen good to see you. >> hi, maria. steve, good to see you. maria: we got a great panel here. we want to get into it. we know you guys have the nitty-gritty on the economic plan the president released. trump says he wants to work with technology leaders to encourage innovation. what do you make of the summit art? what do you think of what happened yesterday. >> that is great and laying out agenda to get by from them and he is doing a great job in the transition and i couldn't be happier. maria: steve? >> i was interested in that little clip that blake just blade about the issue of the repatriation of capital, maria, because that's part of tax plan my buddy larry kudlow and i and steve mnuchin put together for donald trump. we'll bring back, we estimate trillion dollars of foreign money. potentially more than that by the way who are the big winners if you have the repatriation tax holiday? it is tech companies, googles, microsofts, apples. i thought it was a very productive meeting. i think these tech leaders have a lot to gain from a trump presidency. maria: but do you get a sense they will bring that money back? >> oh, yeah. i think they have been waiting a long time for this. microsoft said it will bring some of that money back. apple has estimated over $100 billion of money stored overseas. these companies have been waiting 10 for 15 years for this moment, maria. as you know under the old rules they would have to pay 20, 25% tax to bring the money back. by the way we estimate we could raise $100 billion in tax revenue. it is a win-win. we get money invested here in the united states, right, arthur, and we raise money for the treasury. what is not to like? >> steve, it is dagen mcdowell. yesterday, during the federal reserve meeting on interest rates the federal reserve only increased its likely rate hikes in the coming year from two to three and didn't even change its growth forecast for the next three years. >> i know. >> you're talking about 1.9% growth to 2.1% growth in the next three years. that essentially says that the tax cuts, tax reform and regulatory impact will have no impact on the economy. what do you say? >> that is totally ridiculous. we estimate that we can double that growth rate. as arthur knows it happened unreagan. it is not just taxes by the way. it is the pro-america energy policy which we can produce $100 billion more a year in american energy. the rollback of up obama care, those are all very positive things for the economy. i agree with the fed, if we don't make any policy changes we're going to stay with less than 2% growth. the obama administration is putting out this line that trump is inning this great economy. he is not. we need real policy changes to get us back to very prosperous period of 3 to 4% growth. maria: peter? >> one of the things that happened you see the fed is leaving center stage. they have basically been -- >> yes, exactly. >> they have been the driving force. they have now shifted and everyone is looking to other things that i would broadly into fiscal policy. can you talk about that changing of the guard? that is crucial for anybody looking at the markets because that is a crucial question from here on out. >> if that is directed to me i simply say i made the case last couple years, i learned this stuff from arthur laffer. right now, the arthur, the problem with the american economy is not our monetary policy, but we have a terrible tax policy and overwhelmingly negative regulatory climate out there. if you clean that up, i don't know i think we have clean sailing ahead, what do you think? >> i think the interest rate policy is a real problem. with interest rates as low, no one is able to make loans into risky projects. no one puts money for new house buyers. low interest rates really held the economy back. the sooner janet yellen moves off center stage and let markets do the job of setting rates properly, we should have a 10-year bond in year-and-a-half if the economy does, steve and i agree with you, 10-year bond yield 4 1/2 to 6 1/2% in year-and-a-half if we have a boom this that growth. i look forward to that. janet yellen would hold that back if she had her way. >> steve and arthur, this is mike huckabee. one thing always intrigues me, when you see the picture of the donald trump they have high-tech giants run their companies like cap tallists, but their politics like socialists. everyone is smarter than me. why do the capitalists do politics oppite of their own interests? >> the answer is so simple, mike, that i will let steve answer it. >> well, i would say, first of all, i would say most of the executives at that table, governor, and maria were democrats. and people who supported hillary in this election. i thought it was a very smart move politically. trump is crazy like a fox when it comes to a lot of this stuff. he knows what he is doing. like vito corleone, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. i'm not saying these are his enemies. these are not people strong supporters. why it is that silicon valley, governor, consistently been so liberal when it comes to economic policy i don't have a clue. i can't figure it out. you been to silicon valley and talk to these folks i don't get why they don't understand sound economics. maria: we talked to bill daly, i basically said to bill daley, how come obama hasn't done of this stuff? you got it. maria: carrier doing this stuff and everybody is getting in line. he says we'll see if this works. this is new experiment, we have not had these kinds of policies in a long time, art. how long do you expect for it to take to actually see impact? >> well depends on how he does the policies. steve and i wanted them to do corporate tax reduction right away to give a pump to the system. it will take longer to do the income tax changes and obamacare changes. those will take longer. if you have a delay factor, if you know they cut tax rates next year, we'll have a heck of a bad economy this year because everyone will defer the income to the lower taxed year, what happened with reagan as well. so we need something to jump-start the economy right way way. that has to be the corporate tax, death tax, 100% expensing of capital purchases. they need to be done first 90 days. we might miss that bullet of a very bad year. maria: you say that, but the new talking point on the left is that president obama is handing president-elect trump a very strong economy, steve moore. you and i heard it. >> that is silliest. maria: bill daley just said it. >> bill daley is silly. >> look. he would like to go through the litany of the statistics, with 14 million americans still out of a job, still have 95 million americans that are not in the workforce, when you have 42 million people on food stamps, and when you have the fed saying that we're looking at less than 2% growth, that is not a healthy economy. i was actually pleasantly surprised that something donald trump said to these silicon valley executives yesterday, he said i will make it easier for you to trade. i said, wow that is fantastic. silicon valley want two things in particular in addition to repatriation. they want trade because they are international company and number two, they want high-skilled immigrants to produce new technologies. people forget this, donald trump says i want scientists and engineers and mathematicians, braniacs, i call them to come into the country to create new generations of technologies that is huge of silicon valley. >> these technology companies it has been easy street dealing with the obama administration last four years. no antitrust enforcement at all. increasing concentration of power if very few hands. net neutrality, you name it and they got it and they ought to be nervous. >> well -- maria: any reaction to the meeting yesterday? i mean are they going to work together? they weren't supporting him? >> they're going to work together clearly, maria, what can they do? he is in charge. he is the only game in charge. the reason they like democrats so much, the democrats are much more amenable to accepting political contributions in exchange for actions. when you're a free market type you get your hands out of market. you are are like the other side, you put your hands in where political contributions are always most helpful. i want to advise for repatriation. they are not sitting offshore to come in. many are held in subsidiary companies. they will not change location. there will be a benefit, but a lot less than $3 trillion flowing back into the united states. maria: a lot less? >> a lot less than that. this is not denovo. they still have fund in the u.s. they are held in the subsidiaries names rather than home companies names. maria: you are talking about that, 1 1/2 trillion or what? >> it will cabinet positive an reason it will cabinet positive because we'll lower tax rate here. we'll make them want to bring the money back into the u.s. to increase output, employment and production and more investments. maria: right. >> that is what the real key is what steve and larry have done on the corporate tax rate reduction, is so important you have to attract the money back, not punish people for not bringing it back. it doesn't work that way. maria: great analysis and conversation. art laffer, steve moore. thank you. we'll be right back. good. xerox real time analytics make transit systems run more smoothly... and morning chitchat... less interesting. xerox transportation services... ...soon to be conduent. thank you for calling. we'll be with you shortly. yeah right... xerox predictive analytics help companies provide a better and faster customer experience. hello mr. kent. can i rebook your flight? i'm here! 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think this is the tip of the spear of what we're going to see and in 2017 as more cloud data is aggregated, there will be just as many, not user accounts, a percentage of these business of these cloud providers getting hit. >> yahoo! says you should change the password and answers to your security questions on any other accounts use same or similar information as yahoo! account. change your password every three months this newscasting doubt over verizon's deal to by the company. yahoo! shares are down. we'll watch that stock today. well, kind of slow, kind of subtly, cleveland inian seeps they're phasing out chief wahoo the logo. it has been a source of controversy for years among native americans. the team is adding new hats that feature the controversial character. the hats have just a c. chief yahoo! will still be on jerseys but not as prominent on the hats. every get a christmas present you don't want or like? common. burger king will let you exchange the unwanted gift for a whopper on monday, december 26th. some stores in the brazil and uk will run the promotion. with all gifts donated to charity. post the gift on it e twitter other instagram. hashtag with whopper exchange, maybe they will follow you on twitter. a whopper for the gift you don't want. maria: we have a lot of fans on the set. >> i think it's a great idea. i'm trading this tie in for a whopper later on today. sorry kids. i know you loveed it. we're going all whoer. >> your holiday tie, i love it. >> i know but end of the month it is workless. a whopper would be terrific for start of the year. >> you worn it on live television. >> it increased in value now. >> thank you for all those ugly sweaters. maria: we had a lot of fun -- >> we didn't think they were particularly ugly. maria: we thought they were beautiful. >> my stormtrooper sweater? come on. maria: "morngs with maria," sweater. coming up, rocking the boat, carnival outsourcing the i.t. department but not before forcing workers to train foreign replacements, can you believe it? pharmaceutical sector under president-elect donald trump. what will it look like. how the industry is expecting to change when trump takes over on january 20th. we'll speak to the president and ceo of allergan coming up. ♪ ways wins. especially in my business. with slow internet from the phone company, you can't keep up. you're stuck, watching spinning wheels and progress bars until someone else scoops your story. switch to comcast business. with high-speed internet up to 10 gigabits per second. you wouldn't pick a slow race car. then why settle for slow internet? comcast business. built for speed. built for business. maria: welcome back. concerns over outsourcing, former disney employees filing a lawsuit alleging discrimination. they say they were fired and had to train their foreign replacements. disney is not the only company facing these claims. one carnival cruise line i.t. worker he was notified this month that his job is being terminated and he will have to work with the outsourcing company and train the replacements. matthew culver joins us right now. matt, thanks so much for joining us and telling us your story. can you explain your experience to us? what happened? >> sure. thank you for having me. you know for a few months i've been told, or her rumors we might be outsourced as a department. at a town hall meeting i asked the ceo directly, he assured us they were investigating different ways to save money for the business and increase the return on investment but they had assured us all along it would only be small portions of our group. but then last week on tuesday, we found out that it was going to be the entire group nationally, which is 300 people, 300 families going to be affected. and we're going to be forced to sign with cap gemini or be out of a job an lose our benefits. our deadline is december 19th, six days before christmas. maria: oh, my god. >> yeah. ultimate goal we would train our replacementss most likely h1b visa workers and eventually be out of a job so. maria: have you met the replacement yet? have you trained anybody yet? >> i haven't trained anyone yet. i refused to sign the offer. the new company had a town hall meetings for us all. if you don't work for that company and i did not attend. but yeah, we've been guaranteed, i've seen the rebuttal from carnival that it will be north american workers but it is very clear that the staffed the floor below us with new indian workers from cap gemini. so it is very -- >> panel here wants to ask you some questions but let me give you the statement that carnival corporation has put out. they provide statement to us because obviously we called the company with, with questions and we want an explanation. they say the company is transitioning. its shore side i.t. operations maintenance and support to outside firm cap gemini to help the company upgrade the i.t. operation and keep pace with the evolving technology environment. all individuals are offered employment with cap gem nye which has 15 states throughout the u.s. and four office in florida. in addition to the work being done with our company, capgemini offers broader career opportunities for individuals who specialize in i.t. impacted individuals can seek other career opportunities within carnival corporation. so what about that? how do you react to the statement? have you seen any other opportunity within carnival? have you seen other opportunities within capgemini? >> i haven't seen any within carnival. like i said i refuse on principle to work for capgemini. i already confirmed their business model is to offshore the jobs to cheaper locations. so, i will say that my attorney, sarah blackwell, from protect u.s. workers who is representing the disney folks, she has made it clear this is way of sidestepping the responsibility and that the ultimate goal is not to take care of us as workers. some of who have been at carnival for over 30 years. it's to increase profits only. >> matt, but you said you are rejecting this job based on principle? >> correct. >> but it is a job? >> when i was hired at carnival, my job was to fix issues and you know, do my professional duty to fix i.t. issues. now my job is going to be training someone in india with the eventuality that i will be out of work in six months. >> but they didn't you would be gone for six months. they didn't say you get a job for six months and we're going to let you go. >> this is the outsourcing model and once again i'm relying on on counts sell and my attorney sarah blackwell who has seen this before. she worked with a number of companies. at end of the day the consequence is always the same, the job leaves american soil. you have less taxpayers here. you have less consumers in the economy and that is the bottom line at the end of the day. maria: yeah. peter? >> just one point and that is if they're guarantying you a job for six months is there some reason not to try it? is there some reason not -- i get your principle, i understand that, come to work for us and see how it works and maybe you will prosper? i read their statements, we encourage these people, we want to give them additional opportunity. what is the reaction to that? >> understood but you know, the six-month carrot that they're dangling is, you know they're moving severance and basically all of your pension and things like that over to the new company. so the carrot they're dank liggett you to go over there to transfer the knowledge. not for the benefit of the employees. >> i will give you some advice. i think you're getting bad advice. worse i think you're taking it. i would look for the six-month opportunity if i were you. >> okay. maria: matthew, we appreciate your time this morning and sharing the story. we'll be certainly following this. we hope you come back to give us an update. matthew culver joining us there. future of pharmaceuticals what the industry is expecting under general lech donald trump. we'll speak with the chairman and ceo, allergan. rowing one is a force at the box office -- "rogue one." how much it is expecting to haul in over the weekend. ♪ maria: welcome back. happy thursday, everybody, i'm maria bartiromo. thanks so much for joining us today. it is thursday, december 15th, your top stories 8:30 a.m. on the east coast. the president-elect continuing to meet with high-profile names at trump tower as he looks to fill remaining cabinet positions as he heads to hershey, pennsylvania to continue his thank you tour. it has been an incredible opportunity for all of us to ion witness because they come in and they share their vision and their ideas and their experiences and they help, they love america. they want to help this next administration somewhat in the cabinet and -- maria: very latest as the meeting continues at trump tower today. what did come out of the technology summit yesterday? markets looking to rebound today from yesterday's fed-fueled selloff. futures right around the flat line although we'll probably see selling at opening of trading. we a moment ago got the november consumer price index. it hedged higher bin .2%. energy one of the issues there. gold, prices sinking following hawkish out look from the federal reserve. gold prices almost down 3%. it's a bird, it is a plane, no it is a package. amazon completing first primeair drone delivery. the details coming up. >> jedis rejoice. "rogue one" has arrived. >> what will you do when they catch you? what will you do if they break you? if you continue to fight, what will you become? maria: the expected box office haul that could have disney investor feeling the force. plus london for lunch. the company offering you flights from the u.s. to europe for just $69. we'll bring you all of the new fare ideas coming up. first though affordable drug pricing became a national talking point this year when mylan's epipen pricing hiked 400% during the summer. it has been a big issue in terms of the election as well. what will the pharmaceutical industry look like under president-elect trump's administration? joining us right now, chairman and ceo of allergan, brent saunders. brent, good to see you. >> thanks for having me, maria. maria: recently you wrote an article in "forbes" magazine and you talked about these very concerns, that you are doing a contract with patients. that you understand the issue of high-priced drugs. tell us about that. >> yeah, so i've always believed that the pharmaceutical industry is really comprised of people who are trying to do good things for patients, right? we're trying to solve for unmet medical need. we're trying to come up with cures and treatments for disease. this pricing issue really angered many americans, understandably so. so what we've done at allergan and said, look, we have to make enough mon future innovations and look for curse and treatments but we don't have to engage in these pricing practices that caused so much anger. so we are committed to really limiting our net price increases to mid single-digit or roughly right around the inflation rate. maria: how do you do that? we heard from the ceo of mylan labs, she said that there is all these middlemen and it wasn't mylan's fault that they had to raise the epipen 400% because all these people in the middle that have to take some money out of it. do you not see that? >> well there are, is an issue. i'm ceo of allergan. i'm not ceo of pbm or health insurer. i have to decide what allergan stand for and what can we solve within our control. once i've done that, i can talk about the other pieces of the health care system that perhaps need some fixes. there are many so, i think everyone's accountable in the system, to look for ways to make medicines more affordable and accessible but what we can't do is allow a government takeover of health care innovation because if that happens, then i really worry that we won't find the curse and cures and treatments patients need in the future. maria: today is the deadline for enrolling in obamacare. skyrocketing premiums forcing taxpayers to fork over additional 9.billion dollars because of rising subsidies. cordings to new report, center for health in the economy, we'll see much higher prices going into 2017. what ask your take on that. >> premiums going up so subsidies have to go up to cover higher premiums. net result, healthy people are not enrolling in the affordable care act. sick people are. sick people, it is a risk pool. sick people are the only people enrolling. it is more expensive coverage, therefore more expensive premiums. therefore more taxpayer subsidies. as new administration comes in and thinks about repeal and replace, there is some structural element here that perhaps need to be looked at and there are some great examples of ideas like what vice president-elect mike pence has done in indiana in medicaid, there is more individual accountability, there is health savings account components of the expansion of medicaid that may be good ideas to think about, how do we contain costs and how do we get patients to have more skin in the game when they think about their own health care. maria: so what's your stance on then? what is most important in terms of replacing obamacare? what do you want to see the replacement to look like? >> i think it has to be a market-based solution, we need to do it or government needs to do it very carefully. we don't want to drop 20 million americans back into uncovered status but i think need to have some experimentation and testing and allow the states to have some flexibility to do that, whether it be through block grants or not. but i think ultimately the most important thing that we can do, which we know the governor mike pence or vice president elect mike pence, tom pryce, incoming hhs secretary advocate for is health savings accounts, more patient accountability, and more control by physicians to do preventative care and the like. at the end of the day we have to get the incentives in the right place. we need incentives to find curse and for patients. patients need to be healthier. insurance companies need appropriate incentives to do preventative care versus emergency room care. if we get incentives better aligned we can have better outcomes and better spend of the money. maria: get your take on the pharmaceutical industry in general under a trump presidency. allergan had a front row seat to all the movement we've been seeing with the political environment. so earlier this year, during the presidential election hillary clinton made comment that you know, she may want to cap prices, should she become the president. your stock plummeted. the whole industry's stock plummeted. that was a rough situation for the industry. you were going to merge your company with pfizer. the obama administration said no, you will not move to ireland to get a better tax rate. so that dell went away. here you have a new administration and the effort to take corporate taxes down to 15 percent. how does that impact what you do? >> yes. i think we are on the vern of a huge new growth cycle for biopharmaceutical companies. we finally have a government that appears to be pro-growth, pro-innovation, and low regulation, that is great for the biopharmaceutical industry that really had a tough time in the last eight years with a government that has done everything possible to slow us down and prevent us from being successful. so, we needs, as an industry to make sure we take advantage of it. we have great things coming like the 21st century cures act which was signed by president obama. which have a voice in cure and replace of obamacare. we have a physician coming into the hhs secretary position that really believes in physician empowerment and health savings accounts. those are all good for us but ultimately we need to solve the paradigm shift of this industry from treatments to cures. when companies do do cures like we saw in hepatitis-c they get a lot of negative pr because the price of a cure and who pays for a cure. the health insurance system is designed to do small payments for chronic care. they would rather pay five dollars a day for chronic care for the rest of their day instead of fix the disease is pretty expensive. we need a incentive change. maria: you're working on core business right now and products that may hit the pipeline in 2020. you're looking at alzheimer's systems. where does the growth come from for allergan in next four to five years? is it organic growth? is doing a big deal off the table? >> doing a big deal is off the table. we have a strong, diversified and durable portfolio of products. we have a cash pay businesses, lead in medical statistics and botox and fillers like juvederm. we have alzheimer's, like depression, ibsd for stomach conditions. a big woman's health franchise in infectious disease. so we have a lot of durability and diversification but we have a lot of young drugs. we'll be launching eight new drugs next year. we have six or seven phase three programs that are all blockbusters in 2017 that really could be game changing for diseases like depression or migraine or amd of the i. so we're in really strong position. weariested about our future. maria: sounds like organic growth and small tuck-in deals. >> right. some of the tuck-ins we're doing is science space. we bought a company for gene therapy for blindness. the science is exploding w a pro-growth government an break through science that is strong formula for biopharmaceutical indoes have. maria: thank you so much. brent saunderss ceo of allergan. we'll take a short break. fed chair janet yellen raises interest rates but will she see eye-to-eye with president-elect donald trump? stuart varney. fares across the atlantic for$9. back in a minute. -- $69. maria: all right. we've got more tweets for you, from president-elect donald trump. he just tweeted on russian hacking scandal. he says this, if russia or some other entity was hacking why did the white house wait so long to act? why did they only complain after hillary lost? that's a fair question. >> it's a fair question. obviously donald trump needs meetings early this morning because he has a lot of time to tweet now. >> is there another industry to meet with? >> i think so. maria: dagen is getting to this, janet yellen's view on economy is sharply at odds with president-elect donald trump's approach. she is expected to continue with the fed chair but will his policies change? we have host of "varney & company," stuart varney. >> i am smiling i rarely quote on federal reserve, or janet's bankers i like to call it but i will do it anyway. i think janet yellen has been wrong for years about growth in the american economy. in the statement yesterday she was wrong again about the future growth rate of the american economy. i don't know whether many people picked this up but she forecast 2% growth next year, 2% growth in 2018 and 1.9% in 2019. i would have thought the market was telling her something different. that if we get these growth policies from donald trump, we will get three or four or maybe even 5% growth. i've got a criticism of janet yellen. wrong before, and wrong again. that is where i'm coming from. maria: she has gotten it wrong a lot, hasn't she, peter keirnen? >> i have to say one of the things we're starting to see janet yellen is leaving center stag what we'll find the economy will lead her, not vice versa. she will have to do some catching up. >> now, peter, a goldman sachs guy like yourself would surely have an opinion on whether janet yellen should remain fed chair with a trump presidency. what say you? forgive me, maria, i'm interviewing your guest. >> she will matter a lot less going forward. it will be about the fiscal policies. she has another year or so, early 20 ain't teeth teen. he has -- 2018. he has bigger fish to fry. i agree with your point, she is off the market. the market sell something you, looking forward that growth is coming. i'm not talking about the 2% type. maria: i mean, stuart, has she not understood the 15% corporate tax rate and role back in regulations talking about increase in earnings of 20%? i guess she is not putting that into her model? >> i don't think so. the she is hedging a little and talked about the policies which have not yet been implemented and set. that is all true. i think she is a political person. i think she's accomdated barack obama failed economic policies and fails to recognize the growth inherent in donald trump policies. that is where i'm coming from. maria: stuart, see you in ten minutes. you will have more on this. stuart varney at top of the hour. "varney & company" begins 9:00 a.m. eastern weekdays after "mornings with maria." join stu in ten minutes. we have a couple mops to show you. disney ready to meet the force after "rogue one." the official release is tomorrow but several theaters begin midnight shows this evening. "rogue one"'s opening is projected to bring in $300 million globally. dagen are you going to movies tonight at midnight? >> since i have to be here with this fabulous crew of people tomorrow morning at 3:00 in the morning, no? maria: okay. never mind. >> unless you're going with me? [laughter]. maria: a fair deal. we'll talk to the ceo of an airline that is offering trips across the atlantic for $69. new york to europe for $69, governor huckabee, not bad. >> let's load up and go. maria: back in a minute. your insurance company won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. and if you have more than one liberty mutual policy, you qualify for a multi-policy discount, saving you money on your car and home coverage. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. maria: get ready, non-stop flights to europe combing with fares that could start as little and as low those flights coming courtesy of budget carrier norwegian air, but the bargain transatlantic flights coming to small northeastern u.s. airports. one confirm location is newburg, new york. one is from a list of new england airports, portsmouth, new hampshire, providence, rhode island and hartford, connecticut. those are the air flights you get the flight of $69 to europe. we have the norwegian air ceo, thanks very much for joining us. >> hello. nice to be here with you. maria: we're already to pack up and get on the flight. how are you able to offer $69 fare to europe? is this for real? >> yeah, sure, this is for real. why shouldn't we able to afford to fly everybody? i think, it's another way of doing it. from the areas like -- dublin -- new york and into providence. into the small airports, that you don't have these big, massive delays and immigration and very easy to get through. very easy to turn around the aircraft. it is another way of doing it. >> this is mike huckabee on the panel this morning. one of the questions, this is an amazing fare. is the airline subsidized by the norwegian government? is that how you're able to perhaps offer such low fares and competition with some of the others that can't offer fares that low to europe? >> well, we have -- [inaudible] would like to have sub say diesed from the norwegian government, but know we don't have a single penny of subsidized. this is our on our own. you have to do it in an effective way and, not to be -- [inaudible] >> i have to say in the '70s, sir freddie lake got knighted by doing this in the uk. wonderful you're creating cheap fares. the question is where is your demand coming from? do norwegians want to come here or do we want to go there? >> first of all we expect to fly a lot of european tourists into the u.s. we know that they can fly on low fares there is whole new layer of people that start traveling. secondly, why shouldn't americans also have the possibility to have low fares to europe? maria: wow. >> we haven't lived into you flown into newburg, new york. maria: there are smaller airports. we really appreciate you joining us. this is very exciting. we'll be watching. we'll be right back. stay with us. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car plus depreciation. liberty mutual insurance. tit's what's inside the person insidwho opens it. give ancestrydna, the simple dna test that can reveal their ethnic origins. order now at ancestrydna.com maria: final thoughts from our all-star panel. dagen mcdowell? >> trump tweeting this morning as well, has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of "vanity fair" magazine, way down, big trouble, dead. carter, no talent will be out. apparently because, well there is an article about trump grill, the worst restaurant in america. on the front page of "vanity fair".com. maybe that was the. maria: comments? >> want to say thanks for having me. always a blast to be here. maria: thank you, governor, good to see you. >> very happy to be here. this tech group should meet quarterly. it is crucial. maria: have to get to start varney. appreciate your time. thank you very much. stuart, over to you. stuart: you have to get to me, maria, thank you very much indeed. the economy markets, trump team, lively, upbeat positive. the left? not. negative, sniping, whining. merry christmas. good thursday morning, everyone. there is a clear great divide. split the news in two. the postelection fox poll shows six out of 10 are hopeful for america. consumer confidence is surging. the dow remains close to 20,000. king dollar is at a 14-year high. trump is moving very quickly to fill a can-do cabinet. he holds a fri