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They will vote later. Investors are looking beyond obamacare, theyre looking to tax cut. Whichever way obamacare goes, they want to hear the tax cuts and the schedule stays in place. Thats the president s priority. Hes saying get on with it. Look at this. Investors like it, it was shaping up to be the worst week for stocks since the election, but we will open up this morning. This is it. No more negotiating. The vote is today. Varney company is about to begin. If you cant get phase one through, do you think phase two is going to happen or phase three is going to happen . Stuart. Stuart its you that thinks its bad policy. No, its not. Looking at things that Members Congress are looking at. I respectfully and strongly disagree with you. Stuart come to the point now ladies and gentlemen, and vote on it. It might not happen on stuart varneys timeline. Im becoming the most unpopular guy on the program. Everybody was ganging up with me because i said vote on it and get on with it. Now, President Trump is saying the same thing, take it or leave it. If its a no vote, the president walks away and obamacare stays. Here is what he tweeted less than an hour ago, quote, after seven horrible years of obamacare, skyrocketing premiums, and deductibles, bad health care, this is finally your chance for a great plan. Take a live look at capitol hill. Theyre discussing and debating right now. And repeating there will be a vote today. Joining us now, is grace marie turner, she is an acknowledged expert of obamacare. Grace marie, in my opinion, its got nothing to do with whether or not this is a good bill or a bad bill. This is all about politics, this is all about the republicans showing that they can govern. What say you . But, stuart, youre right, its not only necessary politically, but its a good bill and every time the president goes back and makes some concession it gets worse. The president is showing leadership. He knows when to walk away from a deal because its deteriorating. Hes got to get this done now or never, and he says, got to move on to tax reform. Thats most important, but weve got to deal with his political agenda. Its reckless of these conservative republicans to walk away from repealing obamacare. You are right, stuart. Stuart now, whenever i say this to a conservative, remember, the Freedom Caucus and say, oh, were not getting what we want. I say youre going to get 80 of what you want. Take it. I mean, is that what youre saying as well . That this bill has 80 of what anybody could possibly want in the repeal of obamacare . Absolutely right. And they cannot get 100 because of the reconciliation process. Trust the process. Put this down as your cornerstone and then move on with phase two and three, which will proceed, by the way, anyway, but they have to get this done first. You cannot build a new Health Sector on the wreckage of obamacare, stuart. Stuart now, youve been involved in this on the inside for at least seven years and i think you probably know the conservatives in the Freedom Caucus who are the standouts, the holdouts here. Have you any indication from them as of this morning because we have to vote today. Any indication that some of them are drifting over into the yes column . They have done everything they can to address their concerns about essential health benefits. Its now going to be a state decision instead of a federal decision. And if that doesnt do it, theyre federalists, they want the states to make the decisions, not washington. This is draining the swamp, moving power away from washington and moving it to the states. This is part of that. If they cant accept this deal, this takes not just 80 , its 90 . I think its attention getting, stuart. Stuart as of right now, do you think this vote succeeds that it will be a yes vote at the end of the day . As of right now they dont have the votes, but they have a whole day to twist arms and to get people to see the larger agenda. The president will go to tax reform next, but he will be limping, it will not be as strong a position as if this gets passed. This is a good deal. The president has done everything he possibly can. Meeting with members individually. Addressing their concessions, he says, this is it will, i cannot go further, weve got to move on with the agenda. Thats the right approach. Will it pass or not . Its impossible to tell. I think right now 5050. Stuart all right, grace, youve been with us for at least seven years, all the time with us. High drama in health care, stuart. Stuart grace marie turner, well be watching. A higher opening for stocks, thats the indication at this point. 30, 40, maybe 50 points up at the opening bell a minutes time. Let me backtrack, when the vote yesterday was postponed stocks went south. That turned around when news broke that there will be a vote today. Thats the big story today, the vote. Elsewhere, ive got another big story, its another example, actually, of a retailer in serious trouble, game stop down 11 premarket. Numbers, please. Liz the sales and profits are down double digits at game stop. This is another story, another internet casualty, people buying games online and theyre finding it faster, more efficient, more personalized, in fact, Companies Like nike are saying, customers spend more. They spend more when they go digital. Stuart retail ice age, one more example, thanks, liz. Liz yes, its here. Stuart from video games to social media, twitter thinking about adding paid subscriptions, whats that. Ashley their user growth is slowing down and revenue is falling, 329 million users and cant turn a profit. What can they do . One is instituting a Premium Service on twitter used for professionals, marketers, maybe journalists, giving them access and quicker information, but they would have to pay for it. It would have no ads on it. This is one possibility theyre considering. Theyre doing a survey, blah, blah, blah. [laughter] bottom line, the president uses twitter every day, the tweeter in chief and they still cant gain any share. Stuart got it, blah, blah, blah. The vote today, in my opinion marries politics and money. Here is more of my opinion. The vote keeps tax cuts on track and that thats good for the market. Lets bring in the columnest john lonski. Thats what im saying, this ultimatum, youve got to vote one way or the other, get it done. I think that keeps tax reform on track, what say you . You pass the Health Care Legislation today and youll see the market going significantly higher looking at tax reform. Stuart if its a no vote, what then . I think it goes down a percent or so and stabilizes, stays up roughly by 10 prers fr 10 from election day. Theres a change in terms of washington and that should be helpful for the market going forward. Stuart if there is a no vote today, i dont think there will be, if there is, that would take a little juice away from the president and his negotiating status . It hurts the optics for the Republican Party. Here we have the thing related to obamacare, the criticism has been around for years, republicans have been attacking it, but yet, they cant come together and come up with a program thats going to replace it, it looks horrible. Stuart and thats the pressure the president is applying to the Republican Party. Hey, do you really want to do this . Theyve been arguing to get rid of obamacare all of this time. They cant be from the outside looking in. At some point youre on the inside and you have to begin to govern effectively and theres a lot of work to be done on the road talking tax cuts and what not. Stuart right now weve got the market likely to open 30, 40 points higher, is that an indicator that investors believe its going to be a yes vote and happy theres an ultimatum today . Its a tossup, 5050, see how it plays out. As you noted, a no vote, those that turn down the legislation have a lot of talking to do to the constituents. Stuart can you believe that they would actually do that, that the Republican Party would fail to come together and say no today . I cant believe it, it doesnt make any sense. Stuart i cant believe it. It could be on the border of political suicide for some of the members of congress. Stuart i would have thought so, thats my opinion. Liz you cant go back to your constituent and say we kept your premiums at double digits spiking higher, kept your deductibles going higher insurance costs going higher. How can the tea partiers go back to the constituents and say we kept obamacare in place, dont get it. Ashley the president was elected, one of the main planks of his platform get rid of obamacare. Theyve got full control of congress and cant get on the same page. Shows the average american, youre open to compromise and cant always get what you want. Stuart looking at the debate in progress on the health plan, this is the next procedural hurdle after another was cleared by the rules committee. The full vote is expected sometime later on this afternoon. Of course, it could go well into the evening, but there will be a vote today. You think. Stuart dont even qualify. Dont go there. To the latest developments out of london. Two more suspects arrested, following the wednesday attack. Authorities calling these arrests significant. All of this raises concerns over muslim immigration and thats a concern now all across europe. That is being addressed. And were on it. Plus, more sabre rattling from north korea, threatening to test another Nuclear Weapon and they say the test could come before the end of the month. Ambassador john boulton on that next. Dear predictable, theres no other way to say this. Its over. Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. Together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. I know this is sudden, but they say if you love something. Set it free. See yo two developments in the london terror attack. Number one, police have arrested two more suspects overnight. They call the arrests significant. Second, a fourth victim of the attack has died. He was a 75yearold londoner. Come on in, please, ambassador john bolton. Mr. Ambassador, theres a bigger issue involved here, which is being actively talked about throughout europe as of right now and that is a religious test on immigration. Theyre focusing on muslim immigration. What do you know about this . Well, i think its been boiling around because of the significant increase of terrorist attacks in europe and the decision of some european politicians mike german chancellor merkel to very nearly open their borders to refugees who at least claim to be refugees from the syrian conflict. With a spate of elections coming up in europe, this is going to be something, i think discussed, and when you have this kind of terrorist attack claimed by isis, has the mark of isis, a direct attack on the most prominent english target, i think, known worldwide, i think its going to have a real impact across europe for the rest of this year. Stuart mr. Ambassador, does it have an impact over here on President Trumps proposed travel ban. I think it should, the recommendations from the pentagon to step up the pace and change strategy in going over socalled caliphate and i think that in london its one of the responses expected as we close the noose around isis around conventional warfare that they would step up the pace of terrorist attackses in europe and the United States and this could be well one of the early signs of that. So its important not only for the immigration issues, obviously, this terrorist, the one killed in the attack two days ago, was born in the United Kingdom and just shows the threat when we dont have a functioning melting pot in the United States for immigrants, that the threat can come from a terrorist born in this country, as well as an immigrant. Stuart mr. Ambassador, there are intelligence reports that the North Koreans are gearing up for another nuclear test, possibly within the next month. What do you think our response should be . Well, i think its very clear that north korea is, as our own u. S. Commander of our forces in south korea said, very close after five this would be the sixth nuclear test by north korea, to having the capability to take their devices miniaturize them put them under the nose cone of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and drop them on the American West coast and they say very near, some define very near to 2018. This is real, its a threat not only from north korea, but iran given their close cooperation from ballistic missiles, what north korea can do one day, iran will be able to do the day after via wire transferred to pyong yang. Stuart so will we have a stronger military response to this . Well, i think weve got to consider military response. Its unfortunate to say the least were in the middle of a constitutional crisis in south korea. I think the only real longterm answer here is to reunify the korean peninsula, convince china that their own safety is better served by getting rid of this erratic, irrational regime in north korea, that would not be easy to negotiate, if we dont start soon we should have started ten years ago, but if we dont start soon we may be faced with unpleasant military options and threat to america. Stuart check this out. President trump pops in the cab of a 18wheeler after he had been meeting with truckers. Well talk to one of the trucking guys, he met with the president and he says, by the way, his Health Care Costs went up 70 under President Trump. I like the sound of that horn. Well be back. The Health Care Costs went up 70 under president obama. Hey gary, whatd you got here . This bad boy is a mobile trading desk so that i can take my Trading Platform wherever i go. You know that thinkorswim seamlessly syncs across all your devices, right . Oh, so my custom studies will go with me . Anywhere you want to go the markets hot sync your platform on any device with thinkorswim. Only at Td Ameritrade the top guy at the biggest Retail Trade Association says, retailers not happy with the proposed border tax. Roll tape. We think this is bad for consumers, its bad for the economy, its bad for the people that voted for the president and for those republican members of the house and senate. They didnt vote for a tax increase. This is a 1 trillion increase in taxes on consumers in this country on everything they buy, oil, gasoline, drugs, food, clothes, everything they buy is going to cost more. The biggest myth about this, is that we need border adjustment tax to do tax reform. We do not. Stuart as you can tell, the man does not like the border adjustment tax and my point in raising this issue is, if the republicans are divided on reforming obamacare and cant get it done, are they going to be divided on tax reform. Yes. Stuart because they cant get to grips with the border tax . I think the lines have been drawn. Weve heard a lot from people on one side and he was wrong, im sorry to say, your guest was wrong. They want to do tax reform with 51 votes. To get to to avoid democrats stopping tax reform . You need the border tax to keep it revenue neutral, and so its critical. The coch brothers are against it, and you cant go against them because of and its complicated the fight is just as complicated as obamacare right now. They should have done it first. Should have done it first. Stuart yes, i agree on all counts. Ashley and apparently the president agrees according to the new york times, regrets handling health care first, should have gone with tax reform. A little late now. Liz fired up here. Stuart show me futures, please. Show me how were going to open on the market in four minutes time. Interesting, well be up about 50 points. The lefthand side of the screen, theyve started to debate, at least, the Health Plan Vote that comes up much later on in the day. Ashley the rules Committee Going all the groundwork. Stuart theyve gone through that, it looks like the market believes well get a yes vote. Liz yus do it. Because president obama and they tweaked obamacare after the fact. Stuart are you agreeing with me again. Liz i am. Stuart four minutes to go. Well get the opening bell for you. Stay right there. Your path to retirement may not always be clear. But at t. Rowe price, we can help guide your retirement savings. So wherever your Retirement Journey takes you, we can help you reach your goals. Call us or your advisor t. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. As after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. What about the people i care about . Including this little girl. And what if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . 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Were off and running and way way are we going to go when we dont know which way the vote is going to go . Ill tell you from the getgo. That was a great line, wasnt it. A great line. Stuart i just invented that. Weve got half the dow stocks in the green, we are up 38 points. The markets, i am going to make the judgment. The market believes its going to be a yes note, tentativelily. Stuart a tentative upside move. Health insurers, most of them are up, only one, aetna is unchanged, but they are up with this back drop of the vote coming up. How about the hospital stocks . Whats going on there. Well, the hospital stocks are revealing one moment from now, they are mostly higher as well. And not all of them, but three of the big ones, how about the drug makers and theyre down mostly as of this morning. What a day this is going to be, sports fans. Joining us, ashley webster, elizabeth mcdonald, jeff sica and scott shellady. A vote for Health Care Reform, scott, youre first. I doe the vote . Well, it will be a positive because its going to go through andly weve got a little did donald trump know he would be elected to herd kittens. So, going forward, i think this is going to be, it will be a good thing for the market and were going to have to get something done and hes finally said to them. If you dont like your supper, youre going to bed without eating anything and theyre coming to the table and starting to taste the meatloaf. Ultimately its going through and i dont know why everybody makes this a binary event, tax cuts or up and down vote. Remember what confucius said, perfection is the enemy of the good. We cant have that. We have to relax and go forward and get something done. Stuart. I know how frustrated you were this week and so was i. I tried to tweet you that line. Stuart i agree with you, a good line. Liz i agree with scott, but the last time the s p 500 hit a new high was march 1st after President Trump made the joint session speech to congress. And what happened . Jeff sessions recused himself and blah, blah, its like the growth agenda had stalled. This is a message to the white house and to congress, get it going, get it done. Stuart i agree with you, liz. I think youre absolutely right on that one. Im sorry i interrupted you earlier, but you are right. Jeff sica, i saw its a positive for investors. It is, but you cant underestimate how inept this congress is, these are two major issues with health care and taxes. I think health care is going to get passed because god forbid they cant pass it its goes to go disastrous, but i think the tax debate is going to be ugly, an outright war. Stuart when youve got this vote today, its an ultimatum, you will vote today, when thats gotten out of the way with, it does not interrupt the schedule of tax cuts next. It does not interrupt that schedule and thats good. It doesnt interrupt it, but one thing is that tax cuts are involving a lot taking a lot away and deciding who is going to get the tax cuts, so you have different members of congress and again, these are people used to being inept. These are different members of congress that are looking out for their districts. Stuart we had this discussion. Ashley they wanted the vote yesterday because it was seven years to the day that obamacare was enacted. Theres a twoweek window. Ultimately they want this done so tax reform can be done by the end of august before they go off and make it retroactive to the beginning of the year. Any delay beyond that and the whole domino effect kicks in and everything gets delayed beyond. Stuart thats why i say this is a positive for the market, a positive for investors. Because the tax cut deal is still on track. Ashley yes, it is. Stuart still on schedule. Ashley yes. Stuart there may be difficulty getting tax reform, i understand that, but right now, its on schedule, big deal in my opinion. Some individual stocks that are moving today, here we go. Transcanada. They run the pipeline. They got a permit to build it, thats the Keystone Pipeline, i say get out there and drill and move that oil. Giving it a permit is a declaration of intent. Its a declaration that the tru trump agenda is going to get done. Im waving my fist around. Am i right . Youre right at 10 15. I never understood why the canadian oil was worse than iranian oil. This got so politicized and by the way, there were ten times the number of pipelines built under obama versus the size of the Keystone Pipeline. It was pathetic how politicized that got. To the middle east of a point, but we get the majority of our oil comes from canada. Stuart and the permit has been issued. Ashley yes. Stuart its about to be issued, theyll build this thing. Got it. Check that big board, were five minutes into the session and were up, what, 38 points. Not bad on a dicey day when you dont know which way the vote is going to go. A lot of people think it will be a yes. How about the home builder, kb homes . Its making money and the market likes that, up 2. 8 . Alaska airlines. Theyre going to kill off the virgin american brand name, sometime around 2019. Remember, please, alaska air acquired. Virgin america paid, and theyre going to kill the name. Under amour stocks, currently at 19, and releasing a new pair of 3d printed sneakers for 300 a pop next week. Thats under amour. The shoe store finish line losing a great deal of money. Its down 18 . And this is another example of the retail ice age. Here is another one. You remember when we put game stop on death watch . Its just reported lower sales and its taking a huge hit today. Thats a 12 drop. Jeff sica, you wouldnt touch a stock like game stop with a 10foot pole. No, this is a company that failed to adapt to the changing environment and consumers right now, theyre buying on amazon, theyre downloading games and this company has no attraction right now. Hear that organ music . Thats game stop. My kids go to game stop every time. Only place you can go to trade in old games and trade new games. You cant trade downloaded games. To jeffs point, theres a niche there and ashley is grasping at straws. I am. This is like the Library Concept you can trade in. I like the library. Ashley i like reading books at libraries. Stuart how about this . I want scott into this one. Twitter is thinking about adding paid subscriptions. Scott, would you pay to be trolled on twitter . What do you say . You know, i saw that story as well and i thought, with piqued interest. They have to do something to try to get some sort of revenue out of 320 million subscribers and so far have done a poor job on that and maybe if it gets low enough, President Trump should buy it and use it as his own newspaper. And no, im a little uncomfortable, really that subscription base yet still. I think it should be advertiser driven, rather than subscriber driven and for myself right now, i mean, its done such a good job being free, i mean, would you have 320 million subscribers if there was some sort of pay to play in there . I dont think so. Im leery of the idea. They get more subscribers and revenue declines. The fact that twitter, ive been calling for twitter to make some sort of Strategic Partnership or sellout because theyre not able to do it. The fact they didnt think of monetizing their business the way that theyre thinking about it now is shocking to me. Is actually worth more to somebody else than they are to themselves. Stuart okay. Here is a story about coffee. Sales are up at Dunkin Donuts, compared to starbucks. Am i right in saying the growth rate of coffee sales at dunkin better than the growth rate of coffee at starbucks . Dunkin, yes to a degree. Starbucks is the giant, big gorilla, 17 billion in annual sales and Dunkin Donuts 830 million bucks. And starbucks having been distracted, gone off their game, focused on politics too much, things like hearing refugees and fighting the immigration ban. Dunkins did an elbow shot to starbucks. Dunkin doesnt run on republicans or democrats, dunkin runs on america. Theyre focused on flavored brand like Coconut Cream pie and nitrogen infused coffee, sticking to the basics. Stuart everything is politics, but i wouldnt mix politics with my coffee. Starbucks is blaming the fact that they have this app and people preorder the coffee and the baristas cant ma i can it fast nuture. If theres lame excuse to losing to dunkin, thats as lame as it gets. We have too many orders and we cant make money. [laughter] dont say that. Very good. Stuart thats very good, very sharpedged. Morgan stanley is known to be bullish and tesla, it could be ten times safer than the average car. I dont know how you work out ten times the safety level. I dont know about that. Liz no. Stuart inbound in here going to buy one . This is the model three, right, 30,000, 40,000 car. No . Gorgeous car, cant afford it. Stuart you cant afford, okay. Move quickly on. [laughter] sica, would you buy . If they can prove this is as safe is an as they say it is, well trade in the volvo and get the tesla. Their suv a probably going to do better than all of them in my opinion. Whatever you say, tesla stock is up there. I hear you laughing, scott shella shellady, i know youre in london and looks like youre staying there. Buy a tesla if i could fit in one. But i cant so ill have to wait for the suv. Stuart see you very soon. Scott and jeff sica, thank you very much, appreciate it. Where are we . The dow jones average is up 26 points. The big story today, of course, is the health care deal. Its do or die for the Republican Party today on capitol hill. President trump has issued that ultimatum, vote today on repealing obamacare or else. This is the live action presidency. More varney after this. A little background here. Late yesterday when it looked like there would be no vote at all on the obamacare reform, stocks went south. First thing this morning, when the president laid down his ultimatum, there will be a vote today, stocks started to head up. Now were up 24 points on the dow. Individual stock, micron chip maker, thats a two and a half year high for that stock and its up 11 , thats giving a boost to the s p and for the nasdaq. A fine performance from micron this morning. And then we have atibo, they make gummy bears, okay . Theyre going to open a manufacturing facility in the United States. Give me any background. Liz yes, right outside chicago, its going to be half a million square feet. A number of jobs there. So, people in wisconsin are excited and the first time theyve done this in north america. Stuart has it got anything to do with President Trump saying we want jobs in america. Liz they talked about this doing this last year before the election. Stuart so we cant credit the president. Ashley german gummy bears. Stuart the gummy bear in america, theyre going to cater to it. Lets get to the vote on obamacare, tom price says that the bill is done, voting the fact of the matter, the bill before congress is done. The kind of proposals and changes that were agreed to yesterday, thats it. And as the president said yesterday, look, its time to put up your vote. Stuart yes, it is indeed. Its vote. Youve got to do it today. David schmick is with us, the author of this book the great equalizer a former senior staffer on capitol hill. David, i cannot believe that the Republican Party will say, no, were not going to do this, were not going to vote yes, were going to vote no and keep obamacare, i cant believe that. I cant either. Its funny though, you hear commentary now what a shock it is that the house is going to have this vote. Well, ive looked back over the last year and a half and when you look at budget votes, the vote on the puerto rican bailout, trade votes, paul ryan was forced to go to the floor four or five votes short and hold it open and get enough votes. One reasons he didnt originally want to take the job. Its a terrible job. I think what happened is, the white house finally figured out they wont vote for the obamacare replacement unless you get it to the floor and hold the vote open and say, are you ready to do that. And that bluff by the president about saying if it doesnt happen, im going to walk away. I detect real signs in the senate that theyll pull away. Theres former senator phil gramm has a proposal in the senate and its in, take the original obamacare, if the house cant get it done on throw it on the senate floor and open it up to amendments, regular order. Youll get democratic amendments which wont pass because the republican majority, all the republican amendments will pass, and of course, the democrats will filibuster, and then they, as graham says, they will now, once again, own obamacare, but is that really the direction the House Republicans want to go in . And also, theres talk in the senate of a small of a very modest tax reform if the house fails on this. Theyre already researching whether you can change the contents of reconciliation package, the first reconciliation and then add a modest tax reform. Stuart im sorry, i cannot get to grips with reconciliation proposals, filibusters in the senate over this amendment or that amendment. I cant get to grips with that, david. All i can say is, i cannot believe that the Republican Party will not say yes today. I can know the believe that the Republican Party will let down the president who has just said, youre voting today. Get on with it. At the end of the day, are you with me, that its going to be a yes vote . I think its going to be a yes vote. But ive got to tell you though, you know, everything thats happening today happened in the early 80s when Ronald Reagan was running for president , there was a whole group, they called themselves the new right, that actually have another candidate, phil crane, they thought reagan was not conservative enough, as a governor he negotiated too much with the democrats in california and so, they voted they worked against his campaign. Now they quickly joined once he became president and it was clear he was going to be a great president , but im kind of seeing the similarity. You have the group never quite sure enough. I listened last night for the commentary, trump is blamed, the ryan haters are out in full force, but ive got to tell you, what about the conservatives, the ultra conservatives in the house . I mean, they really are its almost like trump is the father, ryan is kind of the oldest son and theyre trying to manage a bunch of toddlers saying, its all about me, it doesnt matter about the family, its just me. I have my ball, nobody else can play with it and its ai think that there should be much more attention. This is an unworkable group there and yet, they get away with their resistance to just about anything. Im not going to be popular saying that. Stuart and ive not been popular for saying what ive been saying, but ill say it again, i cant believe the Republican Party will turn down this president and vote no and accept the continuation of obamacare. I think were in agreement, david, that there will be a yes vote. Thats a dangerous thing to be forecasting this kind of thing, but ill do it. Smick. Great book, by the way. Thank you. Stuart look at this, now were up 50 points for the dow industrial average and most of the dow 30 are in the green. They are up. I think this is hall about the vote today. I really do. I think the market is expecting its going to get done. I think so. I think that people are saying, i cant believe the Republican Party would vote no, i cant believe theyll do it. How about this . People are leaving chicago, leaving detroit, leaving baltimore, apparently in droves. Remember, these are democrat controlled cities. We wonder, is that why people are leaving . Well be back. Approaching medicare eligibility . You may think you can put off checking out your Medicare Options until youre sixtyfive, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. Keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. The rest is up to you. 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Baltimore is an independent city losing people. No reason given. Those three cities, chicago, baltimore, detroit. Where are they going . Maricopa county in phoenix. The Fastest Growing county in america. Stuart i guess its the weather, you know what i mean . Or the political background, that could be true. Ashley a lot of conservatives in arizona. Stuart the next case, a no vote on repealing obamacare means this, in my opinion, it would be the abject failure of the Republican Party to govern. That is my opinion. Youll hear more of that at the top of the hour. Im going to ask the Freedom Caucus, will you really vote no . Stuart im a free market, small government kind of guy, but if i were a congressman i would vote yes on the obamacare bill and heres why. A no vote would represent the abject failure of the Republican Party. You cant criticize obamacare for years, and then fail to agree on a replacement. A no vote would be a repudiation of President Trump and his very first legislative effort. Do not degrade his political capital. And a no vote means the disasterous obamacare stays with us. It is in place. It wont go away if you vote no. Why vote no when you can adjust the bill more to your liking later . Do no voters really want to bo back to their districts say proudly, yes, i held up the trump agenda. Yes, i kept obamacare in place . Worse, do you want the president to come to your district to tell your constituents what you did . Come on. It is time to show the republicans can govern, that they can get things done. That they can take 80 of what they want and consider it a win. That they can play politics just as well as the democrats. In a moment, congressman Louie Gohmert, a member of the Freedom Caucus, a friend of this program he is a no vote, or at least he was. I will ask him straight up, are you still going to vote no . Are you really going to do this . The second hour of Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart okay. Louie is with us, raring to go. Market news before we get to Louie Gohmert. The dow is up 30 odd points, 20,688. How about this individual stock, gamestop, talking retail ice age here, that thing is down 11 this morning. How about twitter . It is considering a paid subscription format. The stock is up 2 but it is still at 15. How about apple . They have got the new red iphone. It is being launched later today. Some money from each sale goes towards hiv aids research and relief efforts. All right. Lets get back to it. My take on the health care ultimatum that President Trump laid down. Are you going to vote today, and if you vote no you will keep obamacare in place. That is the confrontation that is taking place now. Look who is with us . Republican congressman from texas, Louie Gohmert. Very good, very popular guy on this program. Im not so sure he will be happy with what i have just said. Louie gohmert, where are you going to vote today . Well i am a no, and i do, i cant help but like you and respect you and have admiration for you and President Trump. This is the first time in his life he has put together a deal that he didnt put together. He was relying on people he didnt hire that we now know absolutely, they lied to him about, oh we have to thread the needle with the parliamentarian in the senate, and we cant know what the parliamentarian says until after we pass the bill. Then mike lee goes and asks the parliamentarian, you can get all that stuff in. We dont see a problem with that even then we knew what we could because mike pence or Mitch Mcconnell appoint tee does it. I have to correct you. Obama care stays. This bill, this bill gist more power to the secretary of health and Human Services than obamacare ever did. Stuart he can change the rules down the road. He can change the rules down the road, if you dont like it now. Tom price will emasculate it for now. It will fester. But gives them more power. Well create a new federal program through the hhs. A new federal highrisk pool, were hoping maybe within five years we can devolve that to the state. As close a thing to eternal life. Stuart for one thing, for that youre prepared to turn back President Trump and the Republican Party falls to pieces and if you dont get this through. Well save trump from a democratic majority in 2019 his being impeached. He is mad at me. God bless him. He has been lied to. We have been lied to. This bill keeps obamacare in place in perpetuity. Tom wont do all he wants because the courts wont let him. I have to stand up, as unpopular people i love think it is i would love to be called a courageous wonderful guy and gotten a standing he ovation like most of the people in conference last night. And i dont enjoy being called a coward for standing up by myself. Stuart i wouldnt say. Im not saying that. I respect you and admire you, louie. I really do. But i just cant see obamacare stays and i deeply regret obamacare is going to be here to stay and that President Trump was handed such a terrible hand to stand up and fight for. He is never had to rely on people that were not honest with him. He would fire them. Art of the deal he hired best lawyers and people never think of being dishonest and misrepresent what he had to do. That happened in this case. Stuart tell me about your fellow members of the Freedom Caucus. Youre a no vote. You will vote no today. I got it. What about the other members . There are going to be at least five, there could be nine that, there could be more that vote no. And, im told, as of last night, there are 17 moderates that are no. Some of them may flip and vote yes. But i know the president s going to be unhappy now. But i have great, i just thank god he got elected. Stuart okay. But this is going to bring him down if it passes. Im telling you. Obamacare which bring him down. Stuart obamacare stays if you say no. If you reproject it, first legislative. Dont have to accept this from her leadership. He should demand better. Stuart but he didnt. You have to vote today. This is crutch time, congressman. This is crunch time. Listen, when people see the premiums going up double in the next two years before the next election, you think that 10 in the third year will have saved us in the 2018 elections . No. He will end up losing majority. As soon as the democrats get the house they will impeach him by golly i will not let that happen no matter how many people fuss at me. This is not a pleasant job. I read the bill. You cant base it on a lie and succeed. Stuart i hope you come back to us, louie. If you will have me back, i love being with you. I have Great Respect for you. Stuart okay. We do this in my family. We fuss at each other but we still love each other. Stuart i love that, we fuss at each other. Were fussing now. Louie gohmert, we like you, come on back soon. Thank you very much indeed, sir. Thank you. Stuart i say, a yes vote is a plus for investors. Why dont we bring in Charles Payne, see hes got to say. He has a show called making money with Charles Payne. He should know what he is talking about. This should be a plus for investors. What do you say . I say a vote is plus for investors. A yes vote is plus for investors. I think a vote is. Im with louie on this one. Im with congressman gohmert. Stuart you would note no . I would, absolutely. Here is the thing, all of sudden Freedom Caucus tea party, described antiquated bygone movement we no long are need. Economic freedom is being assaulted. If they vote for this nearterm similar gain, makes it clear to the democratic party. This is out of the vote for something that keeps you in office no matter what kind of damage it does or doesnt do. Stuart this bill sweeps away a great deal of obamacare. You and i i dont think it is binary choice, in other words if it doesnt happen today can never happen. How about going back to the drawing board. I think President Trump may have to take the bull by the horns. Dont let ryan be architect. He and his team bring in all the disparate parties, do it right. Stuart you will stretch out the entire schedule of trump agenda. President trump will move on. There are things in this bill you can do through tax reform. That you can do through tax cuts. So, i dont know, i dont think this has to be the first thing done or this doesnt get done nothing else can get done. I think wall street will be able to refocus get infrastructure thing going now. Get other parts going. Stuart if there is a no vote, as you say they go back to the drawing board, at that takes time. Enormous legislative time. They will do more than one thing at time. They will go back, cobble this together. Get infrastructure going. You can get tax cuts and tax reform. Stuart no, it is a very complicated thing, to push this kind of thing through congress, all the way through the congress. You cant snap your fingers and have it done. It delays the entire schedule. If you vote no today, your guys go back well sort it all out and do it over again you will delay tax cuts and what im saying this does not have to go first before you get to tax cuts. Tax cuts are not mr. Predicated removing bam cair today from what i understand. Stuart do you not think this is a political catastrophe for the Republican Party . They have got the house, they have got the senate, they have got the white house and very first thing that comes up for a vote they lose . Theyre not unified. They lose. Were playing politics here. It is not question whether its a good bill or a bad bill. This is political reality. Pass this thing and govern. I think america voted for a new political reality by votes for a nonpolitician in november, that we dont want this anymore. We dont want to expea eight political stuart im sorry, charles i keep interrupting you. Thats all right, stuart. Stuart you have to legislate. You have to play politics. At moment democrats play politics a great deal better than republicans. By the way they lost half their governorships, lot house and senate and white house. Stuart because of obamacare. We can get rid of obamacare without selling the soul of the Republican Party or ruining america down the road. Stuart you wouldnt get in the moderates in Republican Party to vote for it. It would go down to defeat again. Having said that, if were serious, what theyre cobbling together couldnt make it pass the Senate Parliamentarian and couldnt pass the senate anyway. This political victory would be a shortterm political victory. How about we do it right. Stuart how about we do it right and vote yes, and let the senate do it right. I agree. I want to win now and long term. If my son was going to school and 12th grade, i can give your son a 9th grade social studies let him be a a student. Get the hell out of here. Do it right. Give him Second Year College forthright way. Im looking for the future to be better. The. Stuart are you sticking around . Dont you have a show to do . I have to prep for it but i dont know. It keeps changing every ten minutes. Stuart i am the most unpopular guy on this entire program. I hear where youre coming from. That is what makes the thing so complicated. It is tough. I think, i really wish paul ryan wasnt in charge of it from the very beginning. That is where they blew it. Stuart very, very good debate. It aint over. It aint over. Thanks a lot, stuart. Stuart breaking news. This is from eli lilly, the drugmaker, big investment in america. What is that about . Liz 850 million will plow into laboratories and manufacturing facilities. The ceo said we will invest more if you do Corporate Tax reform and lower taxes on foreign profits. That is david ricks saying that. President trump had really pounded on pharmaceutical companies. He basically pounded manufacturing companies. Eli lilly, look like theyre responding right now. Stuart look at the market please, before we interviewed Louie Gohmert the dow industrials were up 55 points. After the interview, Louie Gohmert says im a no vote, im sticking with a no vote, were only up 25 points. Did louie move the market or Charles Payne move the market . Im not sure. All right, everybody, well regroup. Make a commercial break. Maersk some money and be back. A deep breath. Stuart right. [laughter] yes . Please repeat the objective. Thrivent mutual funds. Managed by humans, not robots. Before investing, carefully read and consider fund objectives, risks, charges and expenses in the prospectus at thriventfunds. Com. Stuart all right the house is about to debate the Health Care Bill, or theyre going to very, very shortly. Moments ago Louie Gohmert was on this program. He is a member of the Freedom Caucus. He he is a no vote regardless what happens during the day. He will vote no tonight. There may be six, seven, eight, nine, fellow Freedom Caucus members who will also vote no at the end of the day. I should point out there are about 37 Freedom Caucus members. Just a small proportion of them, Louie Gohmert says will stick with the no vote. Come in please, juan williams, author of the great book, we the people and cohost of the five. Juan, this is your opportunity. I personally believe at this moment in time the Republican Party is a disgrace. Im serious. I am serious. We elected the republicans who run the house, the senate and the white house and the very, very first thing that comes up on the legislative agenda they vote no, theyre split. They cant do it. They cant govern. I am really fit to be tied. Go ahead. Have fun. Well, i dont want to have fun at your expense. I see you fussing with Louie Gohmert and Charles Payne. I think youre in pain. I think youre having a tough moment. Stuart i am. I got to say, i dont think its a good bill. I think most Republican Voters according to the polls agree, it doesnt serve their interests. To your point, seems to me, this is all about politics. I heard you say that, stuart. Stuart yep. That sense it is just about saving face for people who have not replaced obamacare with a better bill that does more in terms of providing medical care for seniors especially low income seniors, big trump voters. Stuart it is a failure to replace obamacare with a market oriented, free marketoriented, freedom of individual liberty style of health care coverage. Right. Stuart they have not done that theyre not voted yes on that. But im also, juan, im really disgusted at democrat as well. You guys totally screwed up obamacare, totally screwed up 15 of the American Economy, and now, all youre doing is just chucking peanuts from the sidebar there and making fun of the mess that you have made. Im disgusted with both Political Parties here. This is what happens when the government guests involved in health care. Get out of there. Yeah, it was so great before. The status quo was wonderful stuart. Stuart, please, this is an example, we say, obamacare was so bad. You are a maven when it comes to the American Economy. You know the American Economy has not only been instead did i recovery, you know that right of late it has been taking off with obamacare as it is. And you know that according to the cbo the republican plan would lead to less people being covered and, not even do anything significant in terms of deficit reduction. Stuart you also are totally wrong on everything. Because youre having a bad day, stuart, the truth, the facts are against you. Stuart no the facts are with me as matter of fact. No, no. Stuart if this bill does not go through, if we get a no vote, i think that holds up tax cuts, i think it holds up infrastructure program. Yeah. Stuart i think it holds up repeal and reform of doddfrank. I think it holds up the entire growth economy. That is a terrible thing. If there is one thing that our Society Needs more than anything else right now it is grow that economy. We want more jobs and you agree with this. We disagree how you get there. No, no. Stuart im appalled at the idea this growth plan that we all voted for, that america voted for is going to dissolve in a no vote, in the first attempt to get something through congress. Im appalled at that. The america voted for growth begins with the trump voter and there are a lot of lowincome people who rely, rely on Health Care Benefit that come from this government in terms of medicare. Stuart they will keep the Health Care Benefits. Medicare will be reorganized and premiums come down when the market gets to work. Oh, yeah, run over the little guy until the big guy gets his tax cuts. Stuart you should be ashamed. Stuart wrong. Get out of here. You want to run over the people who voted for donald trump. Stuart on friday morning, we usually shake hands. I can not shake hands because youre in d. C. Youre busy kisses up, like family with Louie Gohmert when you are really angry at louie. [laughter]. Stuart youre all right, williams, no matter what. Thank you, stuart. Stuart see you later son. Byebye. Stuart what next . China wants to buy up a chunk of seaworld. There is a story for you. Theyre paying top dollar. Well have details for you in a moment. Love those whales. What we do every night is like something out of a strange dream except that the next morning it all makes sense. To power global ecommerce Fedex Networks are massive farreaching and, yes a little magical. Donai am going to takeys care of everybody. Everybodys going to be taken care of much better than theyre taken care of now. Announcer 20 million americans gained Health Coverage under the Affordable Care act. Including millions of our most vulnerable citizens children, the disabled and the elderly. Now, under some plans in congress, millions of these americans could lose that Health Coverage. The women and men of americas hospitals urge congress to protect affordable coverage for as Many Americans as possible. Stuart moments from now, congressman devin nunes, chairman of house intelligence committee. I will hold a News Conference now and all about russia and any involvement in the election. Step back a second here. It was congressman nunes who made the dramatic statement three or fourdays ago, that trump tower had indeed been surveiled after the election. He claimed to have seen evidence that yes, that was correct, it had been surveiled and President Trump jumped on it immediately and said he was partially vindicated in the tweet that he had sent. Ashley but he also said that surveillance what he called incidental collection. And it was legal in his mind but what he didnt like, the extent of it, it was shared across the intelligence agencies without anyone being informed. There was socalled unmasking of names. In other words this was going on at a pretty broad level but no one was told about it. Stuart yes. Liz it has been reported already Loretta Lynch signed off on the dissemination of names. Congressman pete hoekstra, republican from michigan, ran house intelligence as an opinion piece in the wall street journal. He says the names were revealed, he agrees with nunez, had nothing to do with the probe in russia. It was about the Transition Team being surveiled. Stuart so the question here is, was trump tower surveiled . Congressman nunes says, yes it was. Who released the information that it had been surveiled . Liz liz and who ordered the surveillance. Stuart who ordered the surveillance in the first place and who revealed the names of anybody associated with the Trump Campaign that came up during the surveillance. Is all the devil but refers to trumps tweet on the saturday morning that he had been bugged. That is what this is all about. Will he be vindicated or stand accused of unsubstantiated claim. That is the story. They will cover that moments from now when we get the News Conference. This is makeorbreak moment, this is my opinion, makeorbreak from the the republican camp. Trump demanding a vote today to repeal obamacare, if you vote know he says, obamacare stays in place. Big deal. Back in a moment. I am a no and i do, i cant help but like you and respect you and have admiration for you and President Trump. This is the first time in his life he is put together a deal that he didnt put together. I have got to stand up as unpopular as people i love think it is, and i would love to have been called a courageous, wonderful guy and gotten a standing ovation like most of the people in the conference last night and i dont enjoy being called a coward. Stuart okay. We had a little argument there, myself and congressman Louie Gohmert at the top of the hour. He is, as he said a no vote. I asked him how many other members of the Freedom Caucus would be voting no. He hadnt canvased all other members but nine he knew of would stay with their no vote from the Freedom Caucus. Larry oconnor, Weekly Standard online editor and wlam radio host. Where have you been . I love you just as much as Louie Gohmert loves you, but not in such a texas way. Stuart there you go. I say i cant believe the Republican Party will say no to this vote today. Can you . How can you not believe this . To paraphrase will rogers, i dont belong to a organized political party, stuart. Im a republican. Stuart larry, you got started. Have to break into congressman nunes. I want to watch this. Schiff and i agreed that the fbi brief the full committee on the ongoing counterintelligence investigation that had been previously limited to mr. Schiff and myself. So that was an agreement that we reached yesterday. Secondly the committee will ask director comey and admiral rogers to appear in closed session and will postpone the previouslyscheduled march 28th hearing to make Time Available for director comey and admiral rogers. The Committee Seeks Additional Information from mondays hearing that can only be addressed in closed session. Thirdly, i know a lot of you are wondering about the documents that were supposed to receive today, i will say that the nsa has kept us completely informed the entire time. They are fully cooperating. It is possible we receive documents from the nsa as we requested. Original deadline was march 15th, but i want to caution i dont expect the entirety of the everything that we need today. I would hope by early next week we have a better accounting what nsa is able to provide us. So im telling you that, just so you know, that you dont need to hang out down here because well not have anymore information on those today. Lastly, and fourthly, yesterday, the council for Paul Manafort contacted the committee yesterday to offer the committee the opportunity to interview his client. We think mr. Manafort for volunteering and encourage others with knowledge of these issues to voluntarily interview with the committee. And so those are the four things i wanted to alert you of this morning. And so stay tuned for more. Yes . Reporter congressman, does Paul Manaforts name appear in the new files that you have received . No. No. The up withs, the documents that i viewed this week, no. Reporter followup, please. Are you recalling director comey because you believe he was not forthcoming in his earlier testimony based on the new documents . It is not, it has nothing to do with the documents that ive seen. I will say that i think there are just questions we have for director comey and admiral rogers probably they just couldnt answer in a public setting. But it is necessary to get both of them back down here before we can move down to other interviews. Reporter wait, i want to be clear on this. You are recalling them not on basis of the new documents . That is correct. That is not on the basis ive seen or hoping to get today or over the weekend from today from nsa and other agencies. Reporter will Paul Manafort talk in open session or closed session . We dont know that. He voluntarily offered to to the committee. We will work it out, our lawyers, republicans and democrats will work with his lawyers to see what exactly he wants to do. If he wants to come out in public, public hearing more than welcome to do that. If he wants to do it in a closed setting that is fine with me. Reporter last night on Sean Hannitys show one reason why you briefed the president he had been taking a lot of heat in the news media. What did you mean by that . Im staying the obvious. Maybe you can ask me more questions today. Yes, sir. Reporter in documents you reviewed how many names were unmasked . I dont know that yet. So im aware of just so i can be perfectly clear. There was additional unmasking that was done in the documents that i read the other day. I dont know who asked, i dont know he who asked for them to be unmasked. I know that there are more. Now, just so you know, i was aware of unmasking before i read the documents. Reporter mr. Schiff suggested it might be one or unmasking middle east been done for appropriate reasons. Everybodys look im only one that has seen the documents far i know, i can tell you that we have, i knew about the unmasking before i read the documents. I will leave it at that. Reporter [inaudible] it did. Reporter chairman, as far as the documents, whistleblower from the nsa . We dont, as you know, and ive said this several times, we dont talk about sources at this committee. We want more people to come forward. The good thing is we have continued to have people come forward voluntarily to this committee and we want to continue that. I will tell you that will not happen if wetell you who our sources and people that come to the committee. Reporter as far as the situation in terms of a whistleblower or someone who wants to be hidden for im not going to get into that. We want people to come forward. And we will protect the identity of those people at all costs. Reporter directly . Reporter are you going to brief adam schiff on the full extent what youve seen . He made it sound like he has been kept in the dark . I was hoping to get the documents today. Doesnt sound like well get a full accounting of those. Hopefully they come in today or over the weekend or earlier in the week. Reporter the already . From the letter mr. Schiff and i sent were due march 15th . Reporter what about ones your source gave you . We wont, the letter, should cover, the letter should encompass everything that i have seen. Yes. Reporter [inaudible] do you believe what you have uncovered is validation of tweets he released a couple weeks . Ive been very clear, there was no. As a matter of fact i made very clear on this for many, many weeks on this. There was no wiretapping of trump tower. That didnt happen. Reporter was he surveiled . Reporter members about congress have suggested on the record that your wednesday press conference might have been orchestrated by the white house. Can you say category, can you deny it . Yes i can because, it was exactly as i told you. Were you hear on wednesday . Reporter i was. I came out here and i told you all i was going to go to the white house. I had talked to the white house . My staff talked to the white house earlier that day, to request a meeting with the president. I had not talked to the president before that. Reporter can you clarify whether trump or his associates were monitored or just mentioned in these intelligence reports . We dont know, we wont know that until we actually receive all of the documentation. It is hard to know where the information came from until you get the reports have time to go through them and see all the sourcing of the documents. Reporter [inaudible] i will not speculate. It was dozens of reports. Reporter since the information involved doesnt involve russia, will you start a subpoena rat investigation or break this away from the russia investigation and i dont know about that yet. It is all in the scope of what were looking at in terms of unmasking of names, leaks. It is all in that same body. If we have to section it off and look at it in a different way we will but we havent got to that point. Reporter yesterday [inaudible] dinseal collection could concern chatter between departments and [inaudible]. Are there legitimate reasons to unmask some of these names . Are you saying some of the evidence suggests thats illegitimate . There are reasons to unmask names. I can tell you without question at least some of what ive seen i dont know what that reason would be. Maybe someone has a good reason for it. Not from what ive been able to read. Couple questions. Reporter mr. Schiff said it was baffling that you did not brief him. Yeah. Reporter also said it is baffling that you could not rule out that the white house was your source behind the documents. Can you categorically say that the white house you have asked this question, many, many times. I will continue to say the same thing. You can ask me every single name that exists on the planet and im still not going to tell you who our sources are. Reporter mr. Chairman, is there any suspicion that reverse surveillance going on in terms of looking to actually surveil Trump Associates doing so through surveilling no it all looked as i said the other day, it appears like this was all legal. Okay . It looks like it was all legal surveillance from what i can tell, but until we get documents i wont know for sure who reporter who would have the authority to pull the trigger on the creation of these intelligence reports . They look like, for the most part i think these reports that i read for the most part are valuable intelligence. However, i think there are just questions in those reports that i wonder does reach that threshold of foreign intelligence. You have to ask why were names unmasked. Reporter just to followup, please, so if does not seem out of the ordinary to you, is what is striking the fact that it was so widely disseminated . No. I think its, there are two issues here. There is some information in those documents that concern me in the reports that i read, that i dont think belong there. It would make me uncomfortable. That is why i wanted to inform the president of it. That is one issue. Secondly, there is the issue of unmasking, additional unmasking. And thats i think of most concern to me. Reporter [inaudible]. Reporter very big week for committee, hearing on monday, report of your trips to the white house. Could you summarize what you think the committee accomplished this week . Yeah, look this is not an easy process because the, you know, there is politics on both sides of this, and im trying to navigate as best as i can. I would say that what weve been very successful at is, we have people that continue to come forward to provide us information and we want that to continue and the only way we can do that as long as we provide an avenue that the public or others can come to the committee that want to offer information on this investigation. So we would he still encourage whistleblowers to come forward, people who have information about this, whether it is top secret or not, or anyone who has rad he their name in any press read their name in any press article, to come forward, as we heard from mr. Man for the yesterday. Reporter the job you have done as chairman . That is not for me to do. Reporter have soon can not tell whether the communication directly involved a trump associate or was it two foreign targets communicating . I will not get into the specific what is i saw, other than it was mr. Trump and his, the Transition Team. Reporter yesterday you said you heard from mr. Man for the. Will you call on him to testify publicly, Paul Manafort, roger stone and will people hear them publicly . If he want to. I dont know that yet. We have to work that out with mr. Man manaforts legal counsel. We will work with them as long as theyre willing to come in, especially if theyre willing to come in freely. As for the other names, i dont have, there are many names been mentioned by several members of congress and all of you. As i have said before, were not going to get into neomccarthyism era where we start bringing in americans because they were mentioned in a press story. And i am highly concerned about that. If people want to come in freely we will do that. As for additional witnesses i will work with mr. Schiff. Im sure i will have witnesses that i will want to bring in. Mr. Schiff will want to have witnesses. I know our staffs and lawyers trying to talk to yesterday and today how we move into face two of this investigation. Once the lawyers agree on it, mr. Schiff and i will sign off it. I have to take one more. I have to get back reporter [inaudible] we are asking mr. Comey and mr. Rogers to come back in. Until we can get them in in a closed session it will not be worth it to have the open session. That same slot were hopeful that mr. Rogers and mr. Combpylt tuesday. In that time slot so all members have a chance to interview them and hold a hearing in closed session. Reporter not because the last hearing [inaudible] exactly for what i said. Reporter mr. Chairman, congressman called you to be investigated. What is your response to that . Thats nice. Reporter cochairman mr. Schiff talk about actually only one unmasked name. It had nothing to do with the trump team the was he wrong saying that . We, im not going to get into specifics of that. Reporter [inaudible] were they or werent they . Well find out, well find out when we get the information. I am quite sure that im very uncomfortable with it. I will leave it at that. Reporter mr. Brennan, mr. Clapper, ms. Yates still committed to appearing. It has nothing to do with them. They are still coming forward. I encourage others to come forward. I have to go vote. Stuart that was devin nunes, the republican chair of the house intelligence committee. My reading of that press conference that he added more vindication for President Trump who has alleged that it trump tower was bugged after the election. I think that News Conference backed up that vindication of President Trump. Mr. Nunes went on to say that the fbi director, james comey, will be testifying before the full committee. Now liz has some reasons to why that is important. Liz lets be clear. Fbi director james comey testified there was no evidence to support Donald Trumps tweet that obama tapped his phone. What comey did not say was basically, was there surveillance, was there surveillance on the trump team done about it Obama Administration . He did not answer that question. That is why they want, it seems talk to comey now. What is happening, this is about the Transition Team being surveiled, the donald trump Transition Team surveiled by the Obama Administration after election. Stuart yes. Liz their names were unmasked. Revealed to the Intelligence Community. 17 Intelligence Community. Stuart that is the point, some of the names on the Transition Team caught up in the surely liz and president. Stuart and revealed by president obama at that time. Liz president and their conversations. Stuart to get dirt on the trump Transition Team. Was the surveillance used for that purpose. Very interesting. We have tape coming in from President Trump this is about health care. Roll tape. Pete is a fantastic governor and i will call him today. Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. [shouting questions] reporter what will you do if the Health Care Bill fails . What will you do . Thank you. Well see, see what happens. Reporter did you watch it . Thank you. Well see what happens. Thank you. Thank you. Reporter will paul ryan stay speaker . Thank you. Thank you. Stuart let me interpret what happened there. You may not have caught it. Journalist at the end of the statement there he, asked President Trump, what are you going to do if the bill fails today can . Because there is a vote on obamacare reform today. What are you going to do if it fails . The president said im going to wait and see, wait and see. He was then asked, will paul ryan stay on as speaker. I believe the president said yes. It was a flatout, straightforward he stays on as speaker. Ashley absolutely. Now the event there, we just took tape of from the white house, was really about the Keystone Pipeline. They got a permit today to start the building process, or complete the building process, that is the correct expression. Roll tape on that. We got that in. We dont have that. Were waiting for that. It is essentially, the permit has been issued. It is a declaration of intent they will start doing. Hold on a second. I have Larry Oconnor from washington, d. C. , wmao radio. Larry, you heard all the press conference from devin nunes. I did. Stuart i came out and said he appeared to be vindicating President Trump who alleged that trump tower was surveiled. Did you read that press conference like that . Well, not exactly, depend how you split hairs. By the way the questions from reporters, your colleagues in the mainstream media, stuart varney, they really burn me up sometimes. All those questions. Stuart im sorry. Lets be clear here, representative nunes who seems like a really straightforward and earnest guy and trying to do a professional job here, he specifically said there is no evidence to the very, very specific charge that president obama ordered a wiretap of trump tower. Now, that does not mean that there werent members of the trump Transition Team caught in some kind of a surveillance. That was vindicated there. Stuart larry, thank you very much indeed. Hold on for a second. I just got the tape from the president on keystone. Roll tape. For the keystone xl pipeline. Transcanada will finally be allowed to complete this long overdue project with efficiency and with speed. Were working out the final details as we speak. It is going to be an incredible pipeline, greatest technology known to man or woman and frankly were very proud of it. Russ gerling, president of transcanada is right behind me. I will have him say a few words. Russ, you have been waiting for a long, long time. I hope you dont pay your consultants anything. They had nothing to do for approval. You should ask hundreds of millions of dollars you paid them, they didnt give you a damn thing except a no vote, right . It is a great day for american jobs and an historic moment for north america and energy independence. This announcement is part of a new era of American Energy policy that will lower costs for American Families and very significantly. Reduce our dependence on foreign oil and create thousands of jobs here in america. I would like to add, i think its a lot safer to have pipelines than to use other forms of transportation for your product. When completed the keystone xl pipeline will spanned 900 miles, wow, and have the capacity to deliver more than 800,000 of barrels of oil per day to the gulf coast refineries. Some big pipeline. The fact is that this 8 billion investment in American Energy was delayed for so long it demonstrates how our government has too often failed its citizens and companies over the past long period of time. Today we begin to make things right and to do things right. Today we take one more step in putting the jobs, wages and Economic Security of american citizens first. Put america first. And as the keystone xl pipeline now moves forward, this is the first of many energy and Infrastructure Projects that my administration will approve and we have already approved a couple of other big ones, very, very big ones which well be announcing soon, in order to help put americans back to work, grow our economy and rebuild our nation. And with that i would like to invite russ to say a few words. Russ is a very highlyrespected man in the energy world. Hes president of transcanada. And i know you will do a fantastic job, russ, get it up and hire plenty of american people. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. This is a very, very important day for us, for our company, on behalf of thousands of people that have worked very hard to get here as you pointed out, very long time to get here. Were very relieved around very much want to get to work. Some of those folks with me, Building Trades, sean mcgarvey, some of our construction contractor, quanta. Our pipe suppliers from wellspun. There are thousands of people itching to get to work. We have a lot of work to do in the field, but as you pointed out this is safest and most reliable way to move products to market. Well use the best technology. It will create thousands of jobs. And important tax revenues in local community. That something often overlooked with projects like this, local communities benefit greatly from these projects. It gives them tax revenues which they can invest in schools, hospital, roads, teachers, nurses all of those things build fabric of communities and make places better for those folks. Thank you very much for this opportunity and were not going to let you down, sir. Thank you, russ. I know the voters appreciate this. Some of them expressed it very, very strongly. The workers he definitely appreciate it. The Building Trades heads didnt. Now maybe they will start where are my Building Trades guys . I think they will start to because other people were not going to be signing this bill, that i can tell you. If it ever did get done it would be years but i dont think it would have ever gotten done. We put a lot of great workers, appreciate it very much at the polls, russ, as you probably noticed. So were very happy about it. So the bottom line keystone finished. They will Start Construction when . Got to work to do in nebraska to put it there. Nebraska . I will call nebraska. You know why nebraska has a great governor, they have a great governor. Weve been working there for some time. I do believe weve get through that process. Obviously have to engage with local landowners, tribal communities. Were reaching out to those over the coming months to get or the necessary permits that we need. We look forward to Start Construction. Im sure nebraska will be good. Pete is a fantastic governor. Done a great job. I will call him today. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. [shouting questions] reporter mr. President what will you do with the Health Care Bill . Mr. President what will you do if your Health Care Bill fails . Well have to see. Reporter you think it will pass . Well see what happens. Thank you, thank you. Well see what happens. Thank you. Thank you. Reporter should paul ryan stay speaker . Thank you, thank you. Yes. Stuart okay, just gesturing, come on, get on with it. That was the president. He has got the permit to Start Building or finishing the Keystone Pipeline. Interesting point, he turned to the guy that runs transcanada, the pipeline company, when will you start to build . The man said waiting for her mitt from nebraska . Nebraska . I will call him today. Great governor. I will call him today. Larry oconnor, from d. C. That is plus for President Trump. He is doing what he said he is going to do. He is doing it now. You betcha, stuart. This is president in his element, he builds things. This is one thing you can say about donald trump, he builds things. He understands how important this kind of thing is. This send a clear message the antienergy extremist are no longer in charge of our Energy Policy in this country, thank god, and were back in business, were open for business for domestic oil production, for dough most i can refinery of oil and exportation of oil. This resonates in so many states around the country who not done the stupid things like the state of maryland i live where theyre banning fracking. Energy growth is one of the sweet spots in the American Economy. One thing that transcended bad obama poll is. This is great news all around. I cant wait to see what happens on wall street. Stuart ill tell you. Larry oconnor. Thanks for being with us on a very important day. Thanks, stuart. Stuart everybody, we have very important stories developing as we speak. The big one of course is the vote that will take place today on obamacare reform. The president laid down an ultimatum. You vote today, if you vote no, then we keep obamacare. That is quite some ultimatum. By the way the dow industrials responding with a gain of 50 points. Back in a moment. Stuart breaking news for you, and its now, house now voting on the rule to set the terms of the health care debate. What have we got . Yeah, it sets the parameters for the debate. I know it sounds all so in the weeds, but its important, very critical. If it fails, they cant bring this bill to actually be debated and voted on. I do not believe that will happen, but this is all part of the procedure. Nothing ever happens quickly in washington. This is part of the deal. Ashley makes a great point, its toast if they dont get this rules thing through. But if they do get it through, the vote will happen today. Stuart its a procedural thing, it probably gets through. All right, heres my opinion. I think the most important item on the trump agenda is cutting taxes. Regular viewers of this program know exactly where im coming from. Republicans split on tax cuts, tax cut, tax cut, tax cut, tax plan, tax plan, we dont get a tax plan, tax cut, tax reform. Youre not worried about a tax cut . Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, border tax. Tax, yes, weve got a tax cut. Okay, that was just all, all the segments in one hour on one day. I have been so insistent on this. Because cutting taxes is, in my opinion, the best way to get the i economy going. Thats why i am happy to see the president lay down his ultimatum. No more negotiation. You vote today yes or no. That way the tax cut program is not derailed. Had it not been for the ultimatum from the president , we would be bogged down with procedural and technical arguments that would inevitably delay tax reform. Who wants that . Our country needs strong economic growth. We want to taste prosperity again. Tax reform is the only Growth Program around. Delay it, postpone it and well stay in the economic doldrums. And the trump stock rally will fade very quickly. This is a very big day, good. Put the cards on the table and get on with the business of governing for prosperity. Also happening now, President Trump meeting with Governor Abbott of texas and the ceo of Charter Communications to discuss infrastructure and jobs. Well bring you news from that meeting as it comes to us. Lets check your money. Look at this, now were up 54 points on the Dow Jones Industrial average. Investors shrugging off health care because tax cuts are still on track. Theyre shrugging off the vote. I think they believe that its going to be a yes vote, frankly. How about Transcanada Corporation . Says its received a president ial permit that allows them to build the longdelayed Keystone Pipeline. This fight got so ugly that transcanada had sued the Obama Administration demanding you pay us 15 billion for blocking the keystone. Now that is lifted, the president now saying it will have Technology Like you have never seen. He is now he needs this win right now on keystone. He needed that to get fire you should the trump under the Trump Administration to get moving again. Stuart lefthand side of the screen, the rules i think the gavel went down there, the rule has been adopted, it passed. It was a procedural motion to see whether they could vote or not. Yes, they are voting. They are going to vote, i should say. That was just procedural, parliamentary stuff that is now out the way. The coast is clear for the vote later. Now, more breaking news, keeps on coming, and this is from eli lilly, the drug maker. A big investment in the United States of america. How big . 830 million or thereabouts. Eli lilly was among those pharmaceutical companies that were getting hammered by the president saying, you know what . Your drug prices are too high. The president also saying we need more manufacturing jobs. Watch what the ceo said. He said we will invest even more than that if you do Corporate Tax reform and if you lower the tax rate on foreign profits as well. So more money could be coming in. Thats throwing down the gauntlet to congress saying get tax reform done, youll get more jobs here. Stuart yes, exactly. Its also a plus for President Trump. Hes building the Keystone Pipeline, got that done, said he was going to do it, now hes doing it get the health care thing done so we can have tax reform. Stuart and another Major Corporation putting money into america. And even more if you get it done. Stuart got it. I want to get back to my take, its an editorial, comes at the top of the hour. I think the most important item on the trump agenda is cutting taxes. Grover norquist joins us now, americans for tax reform president. [laughter] now then, i say if im a congressman, if im in the Freedom Caucus, i dont care, im going to vote yes today because i do not want to derail in any way, shape or form the very important tax cut package that comes later. What says Grover Norquist . Well, youre half right. There are two tax cuts that congress will be voting on today. The first is the abolition of a trillion dollars of obamacare taxes. This Health Care Reform package is a trillion dollars a decade, a trillion dollar tax cut. When we have that bill passed, then we go to tax cut number two. Two and a half trillion more over a decade. Corporate rate down to 20, individuals at 33, death tax gone, amt gone. Both of these are linked together, because if we dont cut taxes by abolishing the obamacare taxes, we dont have a low enough basis on revenue expectations stuart okay. To get the second bill. You cant do bill two until bill one is law of the land. Stuart so, so youre with me . Health care then stuart so youre with me, grover yes, youre right. Oddly enough, youre completely correct. Stuart i thought you were over there with the Freedom Caucus. I thought you were a no guy on the grounds that you dont get everything you could possibly want on this bill. [laughter] no, youre on my side. I tend to think trillion dollar tax cuts are a good idea. I am in favor of trillion dollar tax cuts. Stuart yes. [laughter] now look, i personally cannot believe now, you know this better than i do, but i cant believe that the Republican Party would reject the president s very first legislative attempt, split the party and say no to obamacare reform and keep obamacare. I cannot believe that that will happen. How about you . For starters, 90 plus percent of the republicans in the house are voting to get rid of obamacare today. Were talking about 20 people who might vote to screw the taxpayers, to damage the president and to damage america. Now, they can speak for themselves about why they would do something that historically destructive to the country, the Republican Party, President Trumps presidency and that guts tax reform in the future, puts it off to a day when it might not happen. Stuart okay. You cant assume that, you know, theres always clear skies seven months from now, eight months from now. Now is the time to eliminate obamacare, now is the time to get the tax cut passed, and you have to do them onetwo because the tax cut in Obamacare Stuart yep, got it. Allows you to have lower taxes when we do tax reform. Stuart okay, grover, again, youre on the inside of this. You know the people involved. Yeah. Stuart myself and our viewers are on the outside, were looking in. We want information. So at this point in time, 11 07 eastern time on friday morning, does this bill pass today . I believe it will narrowly because theres some people for reasons that are beyond me, im guessing crystal meth, that they just want to showboat. [laughter] stuart whoa, whoa, whoa, Grover Norquist, dont say that on this program. Thats a polite explanation. I cant think of theres no good reason to vote against a trillion dollar tax cut, a trillion dollar spending cut, moving medicaid block granted to the states that sets up the most important tax cut in the history of the republic, at least since reagans a 81 tax cut, and its probably more important even than reagans 81 tax cut. This is, this is deadly important. Theres no good reason to vote no. Which is why i was guessing. [laughter] stuart im very glad youre on the program today, grover. I didnt know which side of the fence you were on, and im glad you are with us, and im glad you agree with my opinion here. By the way, the dow industrials are now up 50 points in part because investors, too, believe well get a yes vote. Grover, great to see you again, sir. Tax cuts, tax cuts [laughter] stuart i can say it more times than you did, grover, and thats a fact. Check out gamestop, please, were talking about the retail ice age, terrible results about how many games theyre actually selling in their bricks and mortar operation. Stock is down 12 . And then we have twitter, they are considering paid subscriptions, just considering it. Not quite sure how it would work, but theyre considering paid subscriptions. The stocks up 2 . How about apple . That new red iphone being launched today. Some of the money from each sale goes towards hiv aids research and relief efforts. Apples 141 as of right now. I think thats close to the alltime high. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says democrats will filibuster to block the Gorsuch Nomination to the Supreme Court. Well talk to david keene about that, hes the former president of the nra. The nra supports judge gorsuch. Well also talk about doctors who ask about your guns when you go for a visit. A federal court recently ruled in favor of this. Well be back. Stuart congressman devin nunes, hes the chair of the house intelligence committee, he just held a News Conference. Its all about the alleged bugging of trump tower. Watch this. The committee will ask director comey and admiral rogers to appear in closed session and will postpone the previously scheduled march 28th hearing in order to make Time Available for director comey and admiral rogers. The council the counsel for Paul Manafort contacted the committee yesterday to offer the committee the opportunity to interview his client. We thank mr. Manafort for volunteering. Ive been very clear there was no and, matter of fact, i made very clear on this for many, many weeks now, there was no wiretapping of trump tower. That didnt happen. Stuart okay. That last comment is very important, because the establishment media has jumped on it and said that President Trumps charge about wiretapping trump tower was totally false. Whats the significance of the wiretapping word versus the surveillance word . It has a definite mean anything the Intelligence Community. Meaning in the Intelligence Community. Wiretapping means you plug into phones to listen. Surveillance is about picking up emails, monitoring computers. What devin nunes wants to talk to james comey about, it appears, was there broader surveillance, and why was that surveillance disseminated to the Intelligence Community . Were talking this is separate from russia. Were talking about the trump Transition Team when the president was elected. What happened was there was conversations picked up, there were names revealed, there were conversations revealed including the president. Remember Loretta Lynch said, yes, you can disseminate this information to 17, 16 intelligence agencies. Weve never seen that before where human beings are seeing their conversations revealed throughout the Intelligence Community including the president. This is stasi, east berlin behavior. Thats what pete hegseth said in the wall street journal today. Stuart thats a good wrapup and were some of those names leaked. Dont forget, theres leaking too. Theres this investigation going on, wait a minute, theyre doing what . These names are being shared across the Intelligence Community, and maybe theres a leak. Stuart let me wrap it up like this the big picture is that were moving more towards vindicating President Trumps suggestion that trump tower had been surveilled. Right. Its stuart moving towards vindication for the president. Its the Obama Administration distributing intelligence reports with names named, conversations revealed including the president to the entire Intelligence Community. Stuart and that would be an outrage. Yeah. Stuart yes, indeed. All right, next case. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, he says democrats will filibuster and block the Gorsuch Nomination. Joining us now, david keene, former president of the nra. David, welcome back to the program, sir. Its always a pleasure. Stuart i think that senator schumer has gone much further than anybody else in senate history. He is saying that they will not consider, they will not allow anyone proposed by President Trump to sit on the Supreme Court. Ive never seen anything like this before. Have you . No, we havent seen anything like this. And, in fact, senator schumer before anyone was named had suggested in an interview that perhaps theyll be able to keep that seat open for the entire term of the trump presidency. The fact that hes willing to go to a filibuster against, against a nominee like judge gorsuch tells us something, and thats exactly what you just said, and that is that he at least is not willing to accept anyone that President Trump might nominate as a qualified Supreme Court justice. No, this is further than anyone has ever gone. The last time there was a filibuster attempt was against judge alito when he was nominated, but it only got 25 votes. It didnt stand on partisan grounds. But this time Chuck Schumer thinks he can hold all of his democrats feet to the fire to force them to go along with it. Stuart well, bearing in mind the performance of judge gorsuch in front of the Senate Judiciary committee, seemed to be wellreceived by just about everybody, al franken aside. [laughter] can you see a filibuster attracting the support of every democrat in the senate . Because thats what it would take. Well, in order to break such a filibuster, one needs to attract eight democrats, assuming all the republicans which im sure they will stand firm. And Chuck Schumer has not only the power that hes got, but hes got a base on the outsided that has really moved so far to the left that they are threatening everything against these folks. Now, remember, there are six or seven democrats in the senate that are going to be running for reelection. They in two years and they dont want to be put in this position, to be forced by their leader to vote against what most of their constituents are going to see is a very reasonable and qualified nominee. So hes playing with fire, but worse than that from his standpoint now, worse than that is the fact that if he goes down this road and forces Mitch Mcconnell and the Republican Leadership to extend the socalled Nuclear Option to the, to Supreme Court nominees which means theyd only have to get a majority vote, that would mean that the democrats will lose the next nominee in a slam dunk fashion because then itll only require a majority, and its the next nominee thats really going to lock in control of the court for a generation or two. Stuart we used to call that catch 22. David, former president of the nra, i want to bring this to your attention. Sure. Stuart federal court recently ruled that doctors in florida are allowed to ask their patients if they own guns. Your response to that, sir. Well, the court also allows people who own guns to refuse to answer the question, and the court found constitutional that portion of the law which prohibits a doctor from denying service to a patient because of their answer to those questions. Wed rather that the questions not be answered because we think that that information new the Health Care System can go into creating a federal database of gun owners. But the fact is that now the patients themselves are just going to have to say, no, doctor, really thats none of your business. Stuart david keene, thanks for joining us on a historic day. Always a pleasure. Thank you. Stuart now this. People are leaving three big cities, and they are leaving in droves. Democratcontrolled cities, i dont know whether thats a factor or not. Were going to tell you which cities are being hit and why. Thats next. Just like the people who own them, every business is different. But every one of those businesses will need legal help as they age and grow. 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Yeah, were just getting news Charter Communications saying they will invest 25 billion in the United States and will hire 20,000 workers over the next four years. Thats a substantial investment. 25 billion in a fouryear period 20,000 stuart 20,000 jobs. Now, just a few moments ago in the white house President Trump was talking about the Keystone Pipeline, going to build it. Hold on a second, now weve got tape from the president talking about this development from Charter Communications. Roll that tape. Delighted to welcome tom rutledge, chairman and ceo of Charter Communications, a great company, to the white house. Im also very honored that my friend, Texas Governor greg abbott, my good friend and supporter love you is here with us today. Very appropriate. Hes done a fantastic job in texas, and we have a priest governor that previous governor that did a very good job, right . [laughter] hes here someplace. Hes standing right over there. Im very excited about the announcement were about to make. First, some background. Five years ago Charter Communications was a struggling company that had slowly emerged from bankruptcy. Today, thanks to hard work and unbelievable leadership, truly great leadership, its the Fastest Growing television, internet and Voice Company in the nation. I would say thats a good job. Not bad. [laughter] very impressive. Bring him into government. [laughter] tom rutledge and his team turned the company around, and they did it very quickly. They created a culture of Customer Service and excellence, and most importantly, they brought back many jobs that had been shipped overseas, something thats happening far too often, but were changing that. That has been good for certain businesses but not good for the United States, not good for america, not good for our people. When American Workers win, america as a country wins. We want to have companies that thrive and hire and grow right here in america, and we want them to use American Workers and american citizens. Today i am thrilled to announce that Charter Communications has just committed to investing 25 billion with a b, 25 billion. You sure thats right, right . [laughter] not with an m, with a b, right . A b. 25 billion here in the United States and has committed further to hiring 20,000 American Workers over the next four years. Charter has also committed to completely end its offshore call centers. That is such a big deal. And to base 100 of its call centers here in the United States. All american jobs. This is great for their workers, its great for the customers, and its certainly great for the United States, and you watch. It will be one of your really fantastic decisions. Tom will be opening a brand new, beautiful call center in mcallen, texas. You know it very well i love it. Good place . Great place. I knew you were going to say that. [laughter] where they will create 600 new american jobs. Charters announcement follows a number of american businesses from exxon to intel to lockheed, to boeing, to many others that have recently announced billions of dollars in investment and thousands of jobs coming into the United States following my election victory. We are embracing and, by the way, thank you for your support. The governor was a great supporter, wilbur and reid. I want to thank wilbur and reid, youve done a fantastic job. Were embracing a new economic model, the american model. Were going to massively eliminate jobkilling regulates. That has started already, big league, reduce government burdens and lower taxes that are crushing american businesses and American Workers all over this country. And we are really in the process of announcements, and youre going to see thousands and thousands and thousands of jobs and companies and everything coming back into our country. And theyre coming in far faster than even i had projected. So were honored. Id like to have tom rutledge say a few words about what hes doing and about his great company. And after that you guys can go back to health care. [laughter] thank you, mr. President. You know, its a great pleasure to announce these jobs stuart okay. Before we hear from tom rutledge there who runs Charter Communications, that is the second win that President Trump chalked up today. The first was the Keystone Pipeline. A permits been issued, theyre going to start finishing it. Its already started to be built. Theyre going to start finishing it. The president has a conversational style. At one point he leaned over and said to the pipeline people, when are you going to Start Building . The man said, well, we have a few problems with permits in nebraska. The president said, nebraska . Im going to call that governor today, great governor, great governor, im calling him today. There you have it, conversational style. The president , all action, liveaction presidency. He does this all the time, rolling up new jobs coming to america. And Charter Communications, 25 billion, 20,000 jobs in the next four years. Big deal. Now, i want to show you the three cities we were talking about earlier which are losing population bigtime. Look at the map; chicago, detroit, baltimore. They are the biggest population losers 20152016. Yeah. In that order, chicago, detroit, baltimore. No reason given, we have though pointed out that all three cities are democratcontrolled. Coincidence . Maybe. [laughter] where is everyone going . The Fastest Growing, maricopa county, phoenix. Stuart thats the Fastest Growing county in the United States. In the United States. Stuart thats where theyre going . Yep. Stuart fascinating. Lets get back to the big story of the day which is the obamacare replacement vote. There will be a vote later on today. Earlier this morning we heard from Freedom Caucus member congressman louis gohmert. Roll tape. Well, i am a no, and i do [laughter] i cant help but like you and respect you and have admiration for you and President Trump. This is the first time in his life he has put together a deal that he didnt put together. I have got to stand up, as unpopular as people i love think it is, and i dont enjoy being a coward for standing up by myself. There are going to be at least five, there could be nine that and there could be more that vote no. Stuart okay. Id love to follow up on that, but lets go live to congressman adam schiff. He is the Ranking Member of the house intelligence committee, he is now responding to what chair devin nunes said earlier. Listen in, please. We would also welcome that testimony be done in open session so the public may be informed of what he has to say. Similarly, if its necessary to have any of that in closed session, that can be arranged. But as much of this investigation as we can properly do in public, i believe that we should do. And with that, im happy to respond to any questions. The chairman said that he, the hearing tuesday with the fbi director and nsa director will now be closed and classified. Will you urge him to make that a public hearing . You know, we had a public hearing with directors comey and rogers already, so i have no objection to bringing them back in and having a closed hearing. If theres Additional Information we can make public and do additional public hearing with them, you know, that would certainly be welcome also. But i dont think anyone should be, should have any question about what is really going on here. This is not a desire to have them come back in closed session and somehow thats at conflict with having an open hearing that is already scheduled, witnesses who have already agreed to hear. We welcome them coming back at anytime, but what really is involved is the cancellation of the open hearing, and i think the rest is designed to distract from that point. Follow up, he said that would [inaudible] what is the reason for that dodge . You know, i think there must have been a very strong pushback from the white house about the nature of mondays hearing. Its hard for me to come to any other conclusion about why an agreedupon hearing would be suddenly canceled. Clearly, it had to do with the events of this week. The chairman himself said the cancellation of the hearing had nothing to do with the documents he saw, so we know that was not the issue. So what other explanation can thereby . There really is none went any reason to believe the dead of night excursion, as you called it, was raised or [inaudible] by the white house in any way . You know, i dont know the answer. I am concerned that the chair has been unwilling to rule out that the documents came either from the white house or in coordination with the white house. Mr. Schiff, some of the members on your committee have lost faith in devin nunes ability to be chairman of the committee. The democratic members [inaudible] this could be, quote, obstruction of justice by denying this public hearing. Are you there . Do you believe that he can still run this committee, or should he step aside . You know, ultimately, thats a decision that the speaker needs to make. And i think the speaker has to decide just as well as our own chairman whether they want a credible investigation being done here, whether they want an investigation that the public can have confidence in. The events of this week are not encouraging. I think anyone watching them has very legitimate and profound concerns about whether this congress, indeed, can do a credible investigation. I think that, you know, one of the profound takeaways of the last couple days is we really do need an independent commission here because the public at the end of the day needs to have confidence that someone has done a thorough investigation untainted by political considerations. You know, it had been my hope, its still my hope, it may be hope against hope that theres some way that we can do that, but i have to say im deeply discouraged by this weeks events. I think the public is deeply discouraged by this weeks events, and i think that what at this point would give the public more confidence than anything else is if we didnt stop what were doing, but we established a truly independent body, quite separate and apart from the Congress Just as we did after 9 11 that the public can say, okay, at least there we can be confident someone is doing an investigation unhampered by political pressures, uninterfered with by the white house or anyone else. And i think this weeks events made that all the more necessary. Congressman, given the allegations that the president has made against the former president , have you had any contact with president obama or anyone from the former administration or any of his representatives about these allegations that President Trump has made about being surveilled by the former administration . I certainly havent had any conversations with the president. The president had a huge staff, so i dont want to represent whether ive heard from anyone affiliated with the prior administration, but i will say that one thing has been abundantly clear from this week, and it began with director comeys testimony and director rogers and what they represented on behalf of the department of justice, and that is there is still absolutely no basis for what the president has accused his predecessor of. That was just pure nonsense. And i think whats happened here, and i really think people need to understand what is going on here is the following the president made a slanderous accusation against his predecessor, one with absolutely no basis that his predecessor, barack obama, engaged in felony crimes and illegally wiretapped him. And one after another republican chairs of the House Committee and the Senate Committee and senators on other committees and the speaker himself said weve seen no evidence to support the president s statements. But you havent [inaudible] and then we heard testimony from the directors this week saying there is no evidence of this. And then we had stuart a little perspective here, because this is a complex story. Its an important story, but i think some to perspective is required. Earlier this morning the chair of the house intelligence committee, devin nunes, gave a press conference. At that press conference, he talked about vindicating President Trump who had alleged that trump tower had been surveilled. Not wiretapped, surveilled. Thats the way its interpreted by congressman devin nunes. The argument was about who did it and who released the names of the people caught up in that surveillance. Thats what the chair said earlier this morning. You just saw the Ranking Member of the intelligence committee, that would be adam schiff. Hes basically saying that this is all a political storm. Its cooked up by the defenders of the president to vindicate the president. He says its all politics. The public wont stand for it. You have two sides of the fence right there presented to us as of this morning, and you saw it. Lets get back to what i think is the main story of the day certainly as far as wall street and politics is concerned, and that is the Health Care Vote that takes place today. Chris stirewalt is with us, fox News Politics editor. All right, chris, let me know where you stand on this. I say i cannot imagine the Republican Party saying no to this. The first legislative attempt by President Trump, i cannot imagine the republicans as a party saying, no, we dont want it. Were voting no. What to you say . Well, not only could i imagine them doing it, but i think theyd better, and i think theyd better for trumps sake. I i think if this bill stuart really . I think this bill, which is a dog, its got 17 approval in the latest quinnipiac poll, nobody likes it, not even the people who wrote it, it is broadly unpopular and is being carried out with the grim enthusiasm of a funeral dirge, and theyre pressing forward with this legislation and they say weve got to pass it because if we fail, well fail well, the Silicon Valley axiom is if youre going to fail, fail fast. Better to have this thing go down, move on from obamacare and get on to the tax plan that trump cares about, that is all hes really talked about in pushing for passage of trumpcare. Let trumpcare die. Nobody wants it, and you can move on and do the tax plan that would stimulate the economy, that would get people growing, that would generate enthusiasm and republicans actually like talking about. They hate this. Stuart no. Look, you cant spend months or even weeks talking about obamacare, how to replace it, how to repeal it. If you did that, you delay tax cuts, you delay deregulation, you hold up the entire growth agenda which is what this country really needs. Surely you dont want to do that. Thats exactly my point. Well, i dont want to do anything. Im just a hack. But what lawmakers ought to do, what republicans probably ought to do for the sake of their agenda, their reelection and Everything Else is have the vote, let it fail and then say we tried, we tried, it didnt work, now on to other things. Stuart oh, chris and then they can patch obamacare, they can put a little obamacare patch in later, and if two years from now they want to come back and revisit it, fine. Stuart im shocked, chris stirewalt. [laughter] if you were a congressman and had to go back to your district and explain why it is you held up the tax cuts oh, no, no, no, no stuart and you also imposed obamacare on everybody, i wish you the best of luck. If i was a congressman, america would be in much worse shape than it already is. [laughter] stuart thats a given. But what you say is i voted fending on whatever your constituents want, vote for it, vote against it, im just saying they should be hoping it fails so instead of spending the next three months fighting, fighting over a health law nobody wants, they can then move on to the agenda you just described. Stuart okay, i do hear you. Ive got to move on because i have a congressman with me, buddy carter, republican from georgia, and he is a yes voter. Congressman, welcome to the program. We just heard from my political colleague there who says, look, this is a lousy bill, dont want it. Youve got to save trump from it. Its nobody likes it. But youre going to vote yes, so i take it you disagree with that analysis. I do disagree, and i vehemently disagree, because i think its a good bill. I think its maybe even better. Im so proud that weve had so many of the different groups within our own party who have participated to make the bill even better. The Freedom Caucus has added on things that are making the bill even better. The more moderate group of our conference has also added things that have made the bill better. Look, ive been in Public Service a long time. Ive been a mayor, ive been a state legislator. This is never an easy process, its never a fun place, but this is how you get it done. Stuart the Freedom Caucus says that bill, as it stands, as its going to be voted on now, is essentially a continuation of obamacare. It does not get rid of obamacare. Its, in fact, dressed up, and what it basically is, is another entitlement program. Deal with that, sir. Nothing could be further from the truth. Listen, im the, currently the only pharmacist serving in congress. I have practiced in health care under obamacare. I can tell you anything is better than obamacare. It is imploding right now. We have to rescue the Health Care System. And i can tell you what were offering, first of all, keep in mind this is the first phase. And this bill, even the first phase, we have more to do in the first phase. Its still got to go through the senate, and itll probably come back to us so we can make it even better. But phases two and phases three, were going to rescue health care in america. Im very confident, im very optimistic going into this vote this afternoon. Stuart congressman buddy carter, thank you for joining us, sir. We appreciate it. Thank you. Stuart i want to bring in scott flanders, ehealth ceo, very concerned about the current state of the Health Care System in the United States. Sir, welcome back to the program. Its good to see you again. Im going to ask you the same question. I cannot believe that the republicans will reject this and vote no on it. What do you say . Youre absolutely right. We absolutely must get this legislation passed. Conservatives should support it. Its a major improvement. It increases consumer choice, it saves 600 billion in taxes, stuart. It reduces the deficit by 330 billion. Its inexplainable to me why conservatives would not support this legislation. Stuart im sure you know the latest iteration of this bill includes, it keeps the 0. 9 surcharge imposed on high income earners. It keeps that tax. This bill keeps that tax. Is that a concern . Look, the alternative here is to keep a failing obamacare. Okay . We need to improve it. We need more consumer choice. We need more young people in the system. This is collapsing, and its, it is a tax reduction. And itll improve job creation. This is punishing the middle class. I dont think its getting enough attention as how this discourages, obamacare discourages work. The tax subsidies are a penalty on making more money, and the tax credits are a major step forward. Conservatives need to the get behind this. Stuart now, the president says if you vote no, hes walking away. Theres no other bill in reserve, theres no plan b. Obamacare stays in place. What would that do to our Health Care System . Well, premiums have already gone up from 400 to 1,000. Theyre going to go up more in 2017. And more insurers are leaving the marketplace. So the marketplace for the individual market which is 36 million americans, more than 10 of america relies on this marketplace and its collapsing. The president cant let that happen. Hes taken a principled position. The legislation has improved. The Freedom Caucus needs to declare victory. They got the minimum essential benefits relaxed. That was major progress. That was important to insurers, itll be good for consumers. But at some point you declare victory s and you get done the doable. And you cant just live in a world of perfection. This may be a badge of honor in certain districts here, but this is going to be a catastrophe if this legislation does not pass and pass soon. Stuart it is the story of the day, and were glad youre here to discuss it, scott flanders, ehealth ceo. Appreciate you being with us. Now this, ive said many times that tax cuts should be the priority, and ive taken heat for it. Roll tape. Is phase two going to happen . If you cant get phase one through, do you think phase twos going to happen, phase threes going to happen . [laughter] this is the problem, Stuart Stuart so you think its bad policy. No, stuart, its not. Im just explaining to you all the Different Things that members of congress are looking at right now. Ultimately, this is going to get done. I respectfully but very strongly disagree with you. Stuart come to that point now, ladies and gentlemen, and vote yes now well, it might not happen, it might not happen on stuart varneys timeline stuart i tell you, im becoming the most unpopular guy on this entire program. Thats true, i am. Everybodys ganging up on me. Come on in, please, mark steyn. Hes the International Best selling author with a british accent. Mark, welcome to the program. Good to see you, sir. Hey, good to see you too, stuart. Stuart im going to repeat my line that ive had several times over the past few hours. I cant believe that the Republican Party will say no to this obamacare bill, reject the president s first effort at legislation, split the party and fail to govern. I cant believe theyll do that. What do you say . Im with Louie Gohmert, and im not going to do all the stuff that louie did about how he loves you and he likes to fuss with you [laughter] im not going to do any of that sentimental congressional twaddle. Youre wrong on this, stuart. This thing is polling at 17 among the american people, its somewhere between the ebola virus and kim jong un in popularity. [laughter] stuart come on. Nobody wants it stuart conservatives like you are going to get just about everything you want. Youre going to get no, you dont have to buy insurance. That mandate is gone. Theyre going to fiddle with the mandates of what has to be covered, thats been adjusted. A lot of the taxes are going away. Whats wrong with that . Just because you dont get 100 of what you want doesnt mean youve got to reject the 80 that you will get. No, you dont get the 80 . In a sense, this gives the republicans ownership of the worst aspects of obamacare. Under this, under this bill premiums will continue to rise, deductibles will continue to rise, and Health Care Costs will continue to rise stuart how do you know that . In all relationship to the markets. So youll be paying a fivefigure deductible, and youll get a couple of xrays for it. Stuart how do you, how is mark steyn joining us, i think, from canada, how does from the woods. Stuart New Hampshire, close. [laughter] know your canadian provinces, stuart. Youve been here long enough. [laughter] new mexicos next to New Hampshires next to nova scotia. [laughter] stuart i cant believe this. You would actually let the Republican Party sink on this one. What do you think American Voters are going to say, we cant get rid of obamacare . Oh, no, were going to keep that in place. You cant get a tax cut, oh, no, youve got to wait for that. You disrupt the entire growth proposal of the president of the United States, and you think thats a good thing . No, i dont. And i dont think, i dont think that this is connected to the growth agenda except insofar as American Health care is a sick for the economy. Its basically bigger than the french economy. And so government, retaining the governmentallization of American Health care, im in favor of a genuine private system and a genuine public system. Right now we have a push me, pull you that is the worst of both worlds. It has all the bureaucracy and incompetence of a public system but without being simple and free, and it has all the expense of a private system except increasingly youre no longer treated as a customer, youre jerked around by whatever alias Blue Cross Blue Shield is using this week. Youre denied access, youre told that your deductible its no longer insurance. And for the cost of the deductible, you could fly to bermuda and have the operation at the king edward vii hospital and still come back a couple of thousand dollars ahead. Its ludicrous, and the republicans should have no part of this. Stuart well, since youre totally and utterly wrong on this one, mark steyn [laughter] i propose to move on to something where we may possibly have some kind of an agreement. How about this one . The Keystone Pipeline. Their going to theyre going to build it. It has received a president ial permit. It allows it to be built, the longdelayed pipeline. Im sure youre not going to oppose the Keystone Pipeline are you, mark steyn . Oh, well, speaking as deputy chairman of the sierra club, i think this is an outrage, stuart. [laughter] no, im in favor of this. I agree with, i agree with something liz said earlier, that its absolutely absurd the way the democrats spent the last few years demonizing canadian oil. I am in favor of the Keystone Pipeline. Transcanada has waited patiently for this. Im in New Hampshire on the connecticut river. Transcanada own every dam on this river. They are big employers in the United States. And to be treated the way they were by the Obama Administration was an absolute disgrace. Stuart now, do you also approve of the news this morning that Charter Communications is going to invest 25 billion in the United States, create 20,000 new jobs and the guy who runs that company was right next to President Trump this morning . You approve of that, i take it . Yes, i do can. I mean, i take seriously this growth agenda. Im a small businessman, stuart, and i absolutely revile the rate of Corporate Tax in this country. Its become absurd the way people think when you outsource and you go overseas that people are somehow setting up new factories and businesses in chad. Theyre not. Theyre going to other developed economies where Corporate Tax rates are within the realm of sanity. And theyre not here. And i dont think thats anything to do with passing this obamacarelite bill. I think trump should actually focus on getting the Corporate Tax and personal taxes back into the realm of sanity in this country. Stuart okay. Now earlier this week on this program i took the snowflake test, okay . Just watch this, please. Am i a snowflake . No, not at all. Not with this kind of energy. Stuart define snowflake. Somebody whos going to whine and complain and comes to the table with an inability to back their perspective. [laughter] stuart okay, go on. I mean, are you going to insult me, call me a snowflake because i think we should pass this bill and get on with the business of governing the country . I mean, youre totally wrong on that. Are you right about me not being a snowflake . No, youre not. Youre being so aggressive that im the snowflake. I need to save face [laughter] youre triggering me with all this obamacare aggression. [laughter] i demand a safe space. Wheres me, wheres the vice dean of student relations at fox news . They didnt tell me you were just going to beat me up. I feel very uncomfortable. [laughter] stuart wait a second. You know what happened to me, this was a couple years ago. I was in a supermarket, a lady looks at me and shrieks, ahh she said, youre mark steyn of. [laughter] oh, please. How would you like to be confused with me . No, no, no. I find i usually walk into an upscale supermarket and they say, hey, wait a minute, arent you that Prince William . That happens to me all the time, stuart. [laughter] stuart are we done with this man or have we got another subject . Its hilarious, dont stop. Stuart hold on a second, theyre telling me to read the prompter. A new Study Finds College students who violently protest speakers on campuses come from wealthy families. You got anything the say about that, mark steyn . Yeah, i think its true. This is basically the indulgence of the sort of poser left. There are actually these pampered children from trust fund babies rampaging around at elite colleges because theyve got no pressure on them. And it is an indulgence, and its pathetic. Stuart all right, steyn, youre done. [laughter] it was a pleasure having you with us. You are i utterly and totally wrong about this Obamacare Vote today, and i hope you sink with it. [laughter] young man, good stuff. Always a pleasure, stuart. Stuart check that big board, please, because were still in what we might call positive territory. Were up 30odd points. Weve been up between 20 and 60 all day. Were waiting for the debate on obama well, debates started, were waiting for the vote on obamacare which will come later on today. Its me. Stuart gerri willis is with us. [laughter] this is such a rock and roll program it is. Stuart im kind of losing track of where were going. I know why youre here. Youre going to tell us about the tax that stays in the obamacare bill that votes on today. Its that 0. 9 surtax on income applying to people who earn 200,000 as individuals, 250,000 joint income, and for some reason you think this is the best idea youve ever heard despite the fact that your viewers are probably thinking do not saddle this on me for another six years. You know, this is not indexed for inflation, so every year that its in place its going to capture more and more people, and you think theyre going to stop at 0. 9 . Remember, this is money thats going to go to people who are buying these new policies to help them pay for it. On and on its going to go, but you embrace this. Stuart no, no, look, youre raising a very valid point. I thought that all the obamacare taxes were going to go away, including this one, but this one was put back in again late last night. I dont know why, but theyve put it back in. Oh, i know i why, i know why, because this is going to help them pay help people who want these policies pay for these policies. They had to find money somewhere, so this brings down the amount of savings from the overall bill. Netnet, i think people out there who watch your show are probably not too happy with it. But, again, you cling to this i thought you were a no increase in tax person. Im a little confused. Stuart why do i have the feeling that everybodys having a go at me in. [laughter] because they are. Stuart to repeat, there is a 0. 9 surcharge yeah. Stuart on incomes, people earning income over 250,000 a year for a couple right. Stuart you pay. 9 , theres a federal surcharge on income above that level. It was going to go away, but now it stays. Im with you, believe me, i am with you. I wouldnt want to see this tax. I think its a very bad idea, but its there. Its there, and its there thanks to obamacare. That was where it came from, and now were keeping this in place. This is part of the negotiation on this thing. Look, i think you make a good point here, this negotiations drug on a long time. Is it going to get cleared up by bringing it up yet again . Good question. Stuart well, theres going to be a vote, and were going to find out where it goes probably late tonight. Gerri, thanks so much for bringing that to our attention. I was remiss in not pointing out that tax that stays. What have you got, ash . Weve got chad pilgrim from Fox News Channel whos literally a wealth of information on all this going on down in washington d. C. He says this is as tight as it gets, talking about the vote, saying the tension in the capitol is, quote, palpable right now. The question is how many votes is it going to take, how many people are actually going to vote, and it looks like we said it was going to come down to the wire but, my goodness, it really is. I spoke to one of my sources who had done this kind of job before, trying to wrangle legislation through congress, he likes what the president did, making an ultimatum. Win and youre the man, lose and start a new debate. He sees this, this doesnt work, were going to move on to something that does. Stuart earlier this morning Louie Gohmert was on the show, favorite guest of ours. He said flat out, im voting no. I said how many other Freedom Caucus people will vote that way . He said seven, eight or nine thats out of what . Stuart 37, as i understand, 37 members of the Freedom Caucus. He had not canvassed all of them, but of those he had spoken to, nine popped up as still no votes. Yeah, but the hand wringing and the arm twisting is going on right up to the last second. We dont know how many of those that could flip to a yes. And were looking at 211213 now to make it pass, that number keeps changing because well look at the number of people who will actually be here to vote for it. Stuart there are some absences, but the latest is 211, 212, 213 are required. Youve got to have that number of yes votes. Right. Stuart look, its going to be close, and its going to go down to the wire, im sure of that. I just cant believe that when push comes to shove, a congressman will say no knowing that that kills, that that maintains obamacare. It stays. You vote no, obamacare is still in place and may delay the tax cuts on which we rely to grow this economy. When push comes to shove, i cant believe that the Republican Party will do that. I think youve made your point. [laughter] stuart so many times. Well, and i look, mark meadows in the spotlight here, right . He cant bring these people to the table. So what happens to him . What happens to the Freedom Caucus . I mean, this, you know, the president has said you dont make it happen, bad on you. And hes putting the burden on them. Stuart what happens to speaker ryan . I think he stays. Yeah. Stuart yeah, well, the president says he stays. Our time is up, but its been a wonderful day. Actionpacked. But, neil, sir, its yours. Neil say its been a wonderful day but not for your guests. [laughter] why are you browbeating them . Stuart ive been abused for three hours, i have to say. Its all yours now. Neil all right, all right. Good stuff, as always, my friend. All right, as stuart indicated here, we have, you know, health care is what this is all about. Can republicans get over the finish line, and by the way, as stuart indicated, it is not an easy haul here. As gerri willis indicated as well, even with the lower numbers because a few congressmen and women will not be there, so you might need only 213, 214 votes, to get this thing the approved. But thats no short bet