At odds with the president elect. And the handling of the email investigation, is that james comey the left is trying to spoil and disrupt the 45th president s celebration. The media will concentrate on the disrupters, watch out. Yesterday a bizarre confrontation between Elizabeth Warren and hud nominee ben carson. She suggested that trump would benefit from housing. An attack on the integrity. No other president elect has been subject to such contempt and its not going to stop. America as a whole, this is very much my opinion, does not share this sour mood. Consumer confidence is way up, Small Business optimism surging and investors pouring into companies and mr. Trump going offer the heads of the media with another flurry of tweets. Sour mood, not here. Its friday. Varney company is about to begin. Were looking like were going up at the opening bell, not much, but a little bit. 10, 15, 20 points higher. Here is the story thus far in money. Beg banks reporting profits. Look how they performed since the election. Okay . Morgan, wells fargo, b of a up 35 since november 8th. Whats the latest news from the banks. Liz its the best performance since 2008. So bank of america and j. P. Morgan solid quarterly profit growth. Bank of america up 47 quarterly profit. Jp morning. Wells fargo had the fifth straight drop after the fake bank scandal, but jamie dimon is saying the biggest bank by assets. The economy may be building momentum. He says theres Good Opportunity for good rational policies to spur growth. Its sort of like this line that im reading, that whats going on is like a Country Music record played backwards. That theres now positive feelings going on in certain sectors of the economy. Thats interesting. Positive feelings in certain sectors of the economy, contrasting with the sour mood in politics. Yes. Stuart you know what you get. Ashley when your wife comes home, your dog doesnt die. Liz and your pickup truck starts. Stuart and go through the sour mood, get out. Its friday. Its varney company. More retile ice age, however. Listen to this, lowes may be cutting 3,000 jobs. 1 of the work force. This company cut the profit outlook because of weaker than expected store traffic. Fewer people actually going into the stores and the stock is probably going to be up a little bit. Opening bell. J. C. Penney says, it will be closing some of its stores, sales growth has stalled. It, too, will be up a little bit. Now, weve got the latest read on retail sales . Yeah, we did, up. 7 . That was the estimate and actually came in. 6 of . I know you hate estimates, but we have to measure against something. What it shows and speaks to the narrative of the show, the retail ice age as we see, the online sales doing much better, up 1. 3 . The Department Stores year over year down a whopping 7 . Stuart whoa. Ashley yes. Stuart thats very quickly, higher gas prices are having an impact on the pocket book as well. Restaurants and bars, numbers are down. 8 , after being strong. Gas prices are sort of nipping a bit at those. Stuart i want to get back to the mood of the country. Democrats, again, my opinion here, trying to kill the mood of optimism in america. This is one week before the inauguration. Tammy bruce is with us this friday morning. I think its an organized attempt to delegitimize the Trump Presidency. Is it working. No, its not. Theyve been trying over a year nowment the left is miserable. They want everyone to be miss arable with them and here is the secret weapon, the thing thats new. And we wondered how is social media going to affect donald trump. Going to help him or harm him . This is his ability to immediately get in there and get rid of the poison pills, 6 30 this morning eastern time the unaffordable care act will soon be history. That made the mood go up. s not reliant on the media covering him or camera in front of his face, he can take control of this environment and hes doing that. Stuart fbi director james comey is facing an internal probe of his actions during the campaign. What do you say about this . This is someone everyone generally expected. At the same time Inspector Generals are political appointees, he will be leaving, technically at the end of obamas term in a few days. Traditionally you can allow an Inspector General to stay and this is Donald Trumps choice and Jeff Sessions whether or not this will continue. Stuart the democrats have jumped on this as an example. They think why Hillary Clinton lost because of james comey and the investigation and emails. This is a signal how politicized obamas Law Enforcement agencies and doj became. This is not going to be going against trump. This is going to highlight and they better watch out what they wish for, this is going to come right back on to obama and making politics out of everything that mattered, including the fbi. Stuart please stay with us at least the next 25 minutes. Several of the cabinet picks are facing hearings. Some of them, some nominees are going against the president elect on key issues like russia, on torture and muslim registry. Well, mr. Trump tweeted this first thing this morning. All of my cabinet nominees are looking good and doing a great job. I want them to be themselves, and express their own thoughts, not mine. Go pac chairman is here this morning. Thats interesting, mr. Trump wants to express their ownens about maybe in conflict with his own. Not seen that before. Any leader worth their thoughts thrive on leading a team with different opinions and different perspectives. In fact, leadership experts would tell you that you must have creative tension and differing opinions for an organization to grow. All of that said, all you have to do is watch a few episodes of the apprentice and you know, while mr. Trump appreciates diverse opinions and wants to hear diverse opinions, he also understands at the end of the day, he makes the decision, and once the decision is made, everybody carries it out. Stuart its interesting the way mr. Trump is playing this. The left sees this as division, not speaking with one voice. Mr. Trump in his tweet turns it around and makes it an asset. I want an administration with lots of points of view. And tammy bruce was just saying a moment ago, thats very good use of social media after the left has come pouring on with its scorn. Sure, well, two things here. One, most democrats dont understand diverse opinion, you took at their caucus, everybody has to agree and be the same or you get thrown out of the caucus and theyre doing everything they can to divert, as you said at the top of the show, everything to divert president elect trump and their team from their agenda. Here is what weve seen not only with the press conference and even this morning, the president elect is not going to divert from the issues that got him elected. Securing the border, getting jobs created and repealing and replacing obamacare. No matter what the left has done, thats been his message since he was elected. Stuart fascinating stuff. David. Appreciate it. Good stuff. Check this out, please, this is a rare, i mean, its unique, a 156yearold photo of president lincolns inauguration going on display at a college in maine. This is the first photo ever taken of a president ial inauguration. We bring it to you because one week from today, well get the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States. Business under attack by antitrump groups, you know it. Calls for an allout boycott of l. L. Bean, after linda bean, a company air donated 60,000 to a pro trump group. Shell join us later this morning and she says the boycott is unamerican. Stuart mexican cartels character in on the Trump Presidency. Theyre exploiting trumps plan to build the ball, theyre surging before the trump inauguration. Were on it. Theres a lot of places you never want to see 7. 95. [ beep ] but youll be glad to see it here. Fidelity where smarter investors will always be. Now, this is chrysler, Fiat Chrysler yesterday, down 10 after the epa accused the company of emissions violations. Here is where the stock is posed to open this morning. Remember, please, Fiat Chrysler is fighting the allegations, but the stock will be down just a little bit more at the opening bell this morning. Big hit to Fiat Chrysler. Mr. Trump says build that wall. And the drug cartels and the human traffickers are cashing in on that threat. Whats going on, ash . Its interesting because just reading some of the numbers. Past six months Border Patrol apprehended about 1300 migrants every day. In the last six months about a quarter of a Million People. Whats happening is, the drug cartels and the human traffickers are preying on peoples fear of a donald trump who spoke tough about Border Patrols, building a wall, more enforcement and so on. Were seeing a spike and until he comes into office the perceived weakness of the Obama Administration on the issue. And theyre flocking over the border. Let them in now and who knows what happens a week from now. Got it. Were told that some of the immigrants are going to chicago ahead of the inauguration. Sanctuary city, liz. Liz yeah, whats happening the mexico consulate is speaking hes the ambassador in chicago. He says, yes, Illegal Immigrants are flooding into chicago. He admitted it. Whats happening, chicago is a sanctuary city and the mayor, rahm emanuel says well always be a sanctuary city. Can the administration stop it . And firefighters say chicago isnt a sanctuary for us trying to protect the city. Stuart that indicates division. Liz for the government workers like the cops and firefighters who have to deal with the influx. Stuart and their pension funds. Liz are underwater. Stuart are at risk and spending money defending illegals. Whats fascinating, too, you know the homicide rate. Thats fed in large part by the gangs, the hispanic gangs, ms13. We know that thats the violence thats feeding all of this murder, generally, and then young men of color who have no jobs, have no prospects. Because of the economy, then are defending their neighborhoods and getting involved. When you have this dynamic pouring in chicago, youre creating ten times more the problem than theyve been experiencing. Stuart what are on earth are the chicago authorities, mayor rahm emanuel, what are they going to do when theyre in the position of defending an illegal immigrant, a gang member, maybe a murderer, to that . I mean, are they going to spend taxpayer money defending that person. Ashley yes. Stuart because theyre a sanctuary i city. Ashley yes, San Francisco is putting together a fund to defend these. Stuart you cant win. America will say, what are you up to. Liz when you announce youre a sanctuary city, its often a magnet. Stuart i would imagine so. And the same liberal policy, everybody deserves a defense paid for by taxpayer dollars and Law Enforcement didnt arrest an individual because of policies allowing them to stay. The left doesnt think that far, but when they get there, its like jumping into the volcano. Liz ill make a final point. Mayor rahm emanuel did have a Million Dollar fund to help protect. Ashley pensions are underwater. Stuart general mattis, asked confirmation hearings yesterday, nominee for the military. He was asked about gays during his confirmation hearing and here is what he said, roll tape. Do you believe that openly serving homosexuals along with women in combat unites is undermining our force . Senator, my belief is that we have to stay focused on a military thats so lethal that on the battlefield, it will be the enemys longest day and their worst day when they run into that force. Stuart thats an interesting response. Tammy bruce, your response to that . As a feminist im embarrassed women were asking about Climate Change and gays and not readiness. And the response to the senator he said i dont care who people go to bed with. He cares about that force being ready. And thats exactly what this nation needs, that means all the talent, but making sure the people who are there can do that job and thats what matters to all of us, regardless of sexual orientation, race, complexion, anything and hes got it right. He wants a fighting force that kills people and breaks things, thats what he wants to be good at. Liz stop the bad guys. Stuart were going to have to take we have to pay the bills around here and the bills for us is y well be back in a moment. [laughter] whats happening here . This is my new alert system for whenever anything happens in the market. But thinkorswim already lets you create custom alerts for all the things that are important to you. I guess we dont need the kid anymore. Custom alerts on thinkorswim. Only at td ameritrade. You may sometimes suffer from a dry mouth. Thats why theres biotene. And biotene also comes in a handy spray. So you can moisturize your mouth anytime, anywhere. 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I think its going to go for this, taxpayers pay for the wall because we want to build it fast and then give the bill to mexico. I think so, because trump used the word reimburse. You know, people are rounding the views of reimburse. You reimburse because we go ahead and build it because we dont have time to wait for mexico to figure out its actually in their best interest to build a wall. I mean, stuart, you understand business. They apparently have leaders that dont. What is the reason that mexico, with a massive Natural Resources they have, with the incredible hard working population they have, why theyre just an incredibly opportunistic location between north america, south america, two oceans. Why arent they one of the top five or ten economies in the world . Its because the drug cartels, you build a wall. Stuart got to build it fast. You build the wall we shut down the drug cartels and mexico becomes one of the top ten economies in the world. Its in their interest. Theyll thank us and pay us later. Seriously. Stuart i know youre plugged into this about tax reform. Yeah. Stuart seems to me the Incoming Administration is going to go first to repeal and replace obamacare, that means cutting taxes will be delayed until probably way out there in the summer. Is that how thats going to go down . Well, were not so sure about that. I mean, the government does go on, youve got to pay for all of the these medals the president s and vicepresident s are giving themselves we cant let those go unpaid for. I dont know if were delaying taxes, i dont want to send that out. Stuart you know how i feel about my tax cut. Ive been pounding this table for several years now. I know, you and Warren Buffett have been saying you need to pay more taxes, i know that, stuart. Stuart stop it. [laughter] do you ever want to come back on this program, congressman . I love talking to you. Stuart there really is no way around this. You cant just repeal and replace obamacare with a snap of the fingers. Thats going to take some time. Stuart, but, stuart, if we pass a repeal of obamacare, it doesnt end the obamacare policies today, that would leave people without any insurance at all and they need the high deductible policies theyll never get any benefit from. So we repeal stuart, we repeal it now, theyll have those policies for the rest of the year, thats not going to happen instantly. We do need to repeal it instantly so they can start getting Insurance Companies to make better plans for the future. Stuart speed up my tax cut, lou. There you go, you betcha, thats what you need to do. Thanks, stuart. Stuart i appreciate it. Story i interrupted him. Disney in talk with carrie fishers estate to use her likeness in upcoming star wars movie. How about that . More trouble for retailers, j. C. Penney is closing more stores. Lowes the Home Improvement people planning to cut thousands of jobs. Were on it. Retail ice age. 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