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Meeting with nato leaders and open borders and terror, issues bigger than before. And also meeting with Angela Merkel. Theyre going to make a statement in the next hour. Also the meeting takes added importance, of course, as we learn more about the u. K. Terror bombers, three members of his family are now under arrest, including his father and two brothers and the bomber was an isis fighter in libya. Its a very busy day in the world and for your money. Varney company is go about to begin. Lets get right to politics, the montana republican running for congress body slams and punches a guardian reporter in front of a fox news crew. Sick and tired of you guys the last guys that came here did the same thing. Get the hell out of here get the hell out of here the last guy did the same thing. Are you with the guardian . Yes, you broke my glasses. The last guy did the same damn thing. You just body slammed me on broke my glasses. Ashley the reporter ben they say that the gianforte is running for the seat, that he was preparing for the fox interview and the reporter came in and put his mic down and you can hear that. And reportedly the candidate body slammed it, said broke my glasses. Mr. Gianforte is in a fight with the democrat in montana, a banjo player, country singer. Obviously, this cannot be good for him. Stuart 30 of the votes have been cast and he had a pretty good lead going into the body slamming incident. More than likely hell still win. Ashley one wonders how many in montana, hey, liberal media, way to go. May be by a larger margin than thought. Thats a different topic. Great news for your wallet. It looks like the market will open higher. Remember, five straight sessions of gains and weve been seeing positive signs all over the place, you may not hear it in the media, but your wallet is feeling it and Median Household Income 59,361 dollars in april, highest since february of 2002. Come in, art laffer, former reagan economic advisor. What do you say, art . Every time i look at the data, forget about the headlines, every time i look at the data im seeing important trends that by the way have longterm implications. Thats great. Its good to have you on the road and stuart didnt leave and invite me so he wouldnt have to see me, did he . [laughter] just joking. The market is telling us were in for a good long run and i believe thats true. I think with trump in the presidency and the house and the senate and state legislatures and the governors, i think we have a great run coming before us. I couldnt be more excited about the future than i am. You know, art, i agree with you, too. I think that too much has been made about how quickly some of the legislative wins happen because i think what people miss is the innate goal of business and thats to grow, take market share and invent the better mouse trap. No industry, no country does it better than america. Thats true. We y just do it well. Not that the government doesnt try to grow, too. They want to invent the bigger mouse trap and they want to be the bigger mouse. I was chairman when these budgets come in debt and complaining, the forecasts are way too rosie, bah, bah, bah, but sooner or later this gets through. This is where the rubber hits the road and these specific programs are where it happens. I love what Mick Mulvaney says, he says stop focusing on the people who receive the money, start focusing on the people who pay the money. And in both cases youve got to look at the balance between the cost of taxes and benefits from spending. When the costs get higher than the benefits, stop aeady i agree, fiduciaries of our hard earned money and they should respect us, not vice versa. Exactly. A lot of big retail earners, i want to bring in jack hough best buy up 11 , williams sonoma. Its a low bar, so much pessimism for retail. Theyre aware that amazon took a bite out of retail, but the perception is retail is going to roll over and die tomorrow. Thats not happening. Theyre getting a big bump. I went to a sears store and i felt like i was in an old Russia Department store, it was scarily gloomy and it might have been the scene of the horror movie. And you may see a bump by your visit there. And theyre extending financing right now and retailers are hard to kill, right . They have a lot of inventory they can sell off when times get tough, a lot of real estate and a lot of leverage, and they last longer than you thought. Many are dying this year and bankruptcy. Before i let you go, some are figuring it out. Best buy may have figured it out and williamssonoma may have figured it out. Either they have merchandise in the store or private label merchandise. Something that cant be amazoned away. And in home depot, people walk out with big carts of lumber. Thats not going to get amazond away. And williams and sonoma, how can you get an expensive espresso machine without trying it out first. And 23 million fewer americans would have insurance under the obamacare reemployment. Joining us mike kelly, who sits on the house tax writing committee. Congress, whats your initial reaction to this cbo score. First of all, we know that the cbo has been off dramatically from time to time so i dont place a lot of faith in it. I will say this, if your taxes go down and deficit goes down and premiums go down, thats a good thing, if your pensions go up and the stock market goes up, thats a great thing. So ill take that any day to what is put out there by some of our friends on the left, 23 million not insured. Charles, they choose in a lot of cases not to have it buy Health Insurance and theyre not going to be taxed anymore, all of a sudden, if you want to use that number and be accurate about the number, a lot of the people who say, i dont need it right now and im not going to buy it right now. Ill buy it when i need it, not when the government tells me i have to buy it and not when they tell me what has to be in it. I believe that most parents want their children to have Health Insurance and kind of dangerous territory and say while you and i want Health Insurance and some reason they dont. If the republicans are going to buy into the notion that somehow the federal government must be involved in health care insurance, thats a sticky point, isnt it . Thats where youre hammered by the press and the other side. No matter what we do, were going to get hammered by some of the press not all the press, be fair about this. Those who need help, weve put a tax credit. And weve done something to help those who cant help themselves. I get the most vulnerable part. What i dont want that we can spend the way we keep spending and look into the future and saw its sustainable. The worst thing to do is promise something you cant deliver and its horrible to do that to people. What weve put forward makes sense and the other thing, it hasnt gone through the senate yet. We put our piece through the house and whats in effect right now is the Affordable Care act. Were struggling. In pennsylvania, charles, our premiums went up 120 and from a guy who does provide insurance for people that would work with me every day back at the dealership, thats an unbelievable cost of operation i cant control. I want to provide it and i want them to have it, but by the same token, it has to be affordable. Without doubt. The people, the working po o the working middle class really got the short end of t stick on this and theres got to be way, i guess, since government and both parties agree theyre going to help to find a middle ground. This, i think, is a positive step overall in the right direction. Thank you very much, appreciate it. Goes down to choice, charles. You have to make your own chase. I want to go back to art laugher laffer. And congressman kelly talked about the added money to get off the relationship with the federal government and the states would make decisions for their own citizens. I dont think that the forecast by the cbo is worth a hill of beans to be honest. They have stuff that they cover and dont cover correctly. Insurance is know the health care, insurance is an Insurance Plan and adds a lot of costs to health in a lot of circumstances. While i believe that everybody should have catastrophic or the resources to take care of it, you dont want Health Insurance for everything. You really dont. You want people to cost the money and get the benefits and look at it like anything else, like housing, like food, like education and you dont want everyone covered 100 , otherwise youll have a real mixup and have it dragging the economy down. This bill would add a lot to Economic Growth. Let me just say that. And it will reduce the deficit by more than and its smart, a lot of smart stuff in it. Thank you, art. Thank you, charles. And travelers, tsa rolling out new screening procedures at the airports. Get ready to spend more time in waiting lines. Wait until we tell, but this, a story out of portland, oregon. Two women start a burrito business and they were shut down after some people complained they were appropriating the mexican culture. Cant make it up. And the congressman body slamming a reporter. And some blame donald trump. What does brent bozell have to say about that next. Before i had the shooting, burning of diabetic nerve pain these feet. 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Ask your doctor about lyrica. If youre eligible, you could pay as little as 25 dollars a month. Yeah. Well, we gotta hand it thto fedex. Glasses. Theyve helped make our ecommerce so easy, and now were getting all kinds of new customers. I know. Can you believe were getting orders from canada, ireland. This ones going to new zealand. New zealand . Psst. Ah, false alarm. Hey you guys are gonna scare away the deer idiots. Providing Global Access for small business. Fedex. All right. Back to politics, a montana republican running for congress, body slams a reporter in front of a fox crew and cnn reporter blames President Trump. Roll tape. Do you feel you have to defend everything about this particular person in office. What does donald trump have anything to do with what the can candidate did. There are horrible people, the enemy of the american people. If you think that that doesnt have anything to do with it, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken, my friend. Oh, all right. Joining us now brent bozell with the Media Research center. All right, brent, what are your thoughts . Cnn now six degrees of separation. He gets blamed for everything. Its one thing if you disagree on policy and ideology. When you Start Talking about a sort of responsibility for any sort of violent scene or episode, its taking us down a path thats dangerous. And thats where journalists, i you shouldnt participate in a discussion on policy and your job to report t news and nothing, but that. And youve got cnn and msnbc look, i think that cnn is Something Like 37, 38 years old and it has become a national disgrace. It does nothing, but attack donald trump. He goes overseas, do you think, do you think, charles, for a moment that theyve been ignoring his trip overseas. If trump had made a mistake instead of doing well as hes i evidence. Could it be a onehour special . Sounds like it could be between commercial breaks. They cant do it and think about the thousands of stories that have been run on these networks and the hundreds of hours theyve spent, and yet, theres nothing, theres no evidence of this, disgraceful. Brent bozell, youre the ultimate straight shooter and i always appreciate being able to talk with you. Thank you, charles. Lets check the futures, its a great day for the markets at least at open. Looking really good. Near alltime highs across the board and your amazon story of the day, there are always several of them. Get this, theyre hoping a bricks and mortar store in manhattan. If used to be a bookstore they put out of business. Talk about adding insult to injury. More varney after this. We get the latest read on Economic Growth tomorrow and yesterday we had on a former official from reagans administration who said that we really dont need that high of growth. Roll tape. I dont think we need 4 growth to be successful, have a successful economy. Why dont we have a 4 growth rate . Whats wrong with it . Because country is so weighted down with federal spending, right, that youre sucking all of that excess capacity out of the private sector into the public sectorment thats the problem. So you sort of get on a vicious circle here. Ive got to cut taxes to feed the beast. Charles i want to go back to art laffer. Whats your reaction to that . Thats very true. Were having the strength sucked out of the economy because of government programs, higher taxes and all of that. We can have 4 growth easily, to be honest with you charles. January 1st, 1983 to june 30th, 1984, thats a 18month period, a year and a half, we had an average growth rate there of 8 annualized or 12 total growth. Those are chinese growth rates. We really can get very rapid growth if we start doing the policies correctly and i think 4 growth would be quite doable for a long period of time, not just for a short period of time, and growth is just set. And trump has a very low bar, charles, very low bar. Charles but its harder to grow, lets say a 20 trillion dollar economy than a 10 trillion dollar economy. Thats true, but weve been pushed afurther south as an economy so we have it easier bouncing back. There was no bounceback with the obama recovery, none, and what we have is this very low bar which will give you quite rapid growth to get us up to normal and then level off. 20 would be amazing. 3, 3 1 2 isnt amazing. If we get it up to 2 1 2 and then bring the employment ratio back up again, we could get very high growth rates for periods of time of a year, year and a half, too. Charles im with you, buddy, why not 5 at some point in the future. Lets go for it, charles. Charles ive got the pompons on, im with you. The future indications, yesterday the s p closed at an alltime high im sorry, the dow closed at second highest close ever, maybe a record today. Well be right back. So we need tablets installed. With the menu app ready to roll. In 12 weeks. Yeah. The world of fast food is being changed by faster networks. Data, applications, customer experience. Which is why comcast business delivers Consistent Network Performance and speed across all your locations. Fast connections everywhere. Thats how you outmaneuver. The opening bell is going to ring in 15 seconds. Think about this, a week ago today, the dow was off 373 points. A lot of people were talking about the trump bumping and of course never gave credit to the trump rally in the first place. Here we are today, well probably see the dow join s p 500 and nasdaq in reaching alltime highs, at least early on in the session. The dow 30 being populated for the most part almost all green arrows, except for chevron and ge, which has a lot of issues that are not going to go away. Now, one of the surprises today, encouraging numbers from retailers, some last night and some this morning. We do, obviously, admit that the bar has been set pretty low. Nonetheless, they are among the biggest percentage gainers today. And then theres the retail killer, amazon, which is still near an alltime high and its doing phenomenal and brick and mortar. Youve got to check out facebook, because their signing deals with fox and buzz feed, among others, to make shows for the services. And the cbo came out and sai 23 million fewer americans will have Health Insurance under the house obamacare replacement man. Small movement in some of those Health Insurancers. Positive signs for the economy and positive signs for the market, near alltime highs. John, what do you have to say about it . I dont think a lot of things have changed except for the s p earnings, the best theyve been in six years, but still, the u. S. Market is the place to be. You look at the trouble around the world. You look at the fed keeping Interest Rates low. Theres not much yield look shall the innovation thats happening in the United States. I think the u. S. Market by comparison, its the place to be. Charles what do you say to the people the market is extended and the rally is long in the tooth and much of the trump agenda would be pushed off until next year . Its funny about valuations, thats about qualms for what, the last two, three, four years, hasnt it . This rally was supposed to be over quarters ago. I think john is right, i think the fuel for this fire is earnings and something that you and art laffer talked about some minutes ago. The market is not talking about today or not looking at today, not looking at yesterday. Its looking at tomorrow and looking at the pro business initiatives that we have coming out of d. C. Finally, after eight years of oppression to the business community. Thats what the market is excited about and thats whats going to take s p prices higher. Charles and accelerated growth since march 31st, is that the kind of momentum to justify the market . There are still good deals out there. I would say chips, you used to have to make an upside on personal computers, and now theyre selling more silicon into cars and and chip makers, i think the company like Analog Devices and so forth. Charles adi. Yeah. Charles some encouraging signs from the big retail names reporting profits. Scott, is it a mirage or the idea that expectations were so low or maybe some retaers are getting their act together . You know, expectations are definitely low. I mean, if you ask anybody about retail at least in wall street. Theyre going to tell you that retail is the walking dead. The trouble is when expectations get low and the numbers like you saw today, you get a little bit of a bounce, theyre heavily shorted names. The death of retail is not exaggerated, its not going to happen tomorrow, but soon. Therefore when youre in these names and looking to pick these up. Theyre meanwhile a trade, not a longterm hold if youre lucky enough to get the beauties among the mines in the field, good luck to that. Charles john, what do you think . Some of them are getting their act together online and finding ways to get us to go shop. Yeah, look im with scott on this. Best buy found a way to counter am zone, so has home depot, ive owned, and theyre getting to give instructions in the stores, hard to get online. Retail has problems at the peak of the recession, 6800 for a year. Its how you sell stuff. Walmart was the retail killer and now its amazon and now those two are competing against each other, walmart is doing great thing after the acquisition of jet. Com and the ceo is helping them with the online business, but those two together are going to cause a lot of pain for your brick and Mortar Retail stores. Charles bottom line from 1970 to 2015, malls grew at twice the rate of our population and maybe this was overdue. Ashley you know, for instance, guess, up 14 something close like that. Yeah, 13 1 2 because theyre not losing money as quickly as they thought we would. Bear in mind, whats the strategy here . Best buy has done well, but its a struggle for the retailers, the brick and Mortar Stores to stop the bleeding. Charles i believe in ultimate destruction and like you said, we built too many stores and we need to get rid of some and the market will correct itself. When i look at the market each me amazon decides to go after share in a new market like clothing, that industry gets killed. Clothing is getting killed. Charles theyve announced pharmacy and Just Announced furniture, so beware. Charles, one thing thats really important to understand is amazon in the last 20 years, their growth rate right now is 25 . If that continues the next three, they will double the market in three years. Theyll done in the next three years what theyve done in the last 20 for retail. Charles its an amazing story. So is facebook and theyre not giving up on growth either. One thing theyve done, theyre signing with buzz feed and a whole lot of others and want to show video. Jack, is that the way to go . I dont know. I like my t vchv personalities be vetted billionaires like yourself. I dont want any tom, dick or harry to show up on online streaming service. This is the way that services are going, especially among young viewers. I saw a survey yesterday on kids, 7 to 16. Yeah. And what do you want to be when you grow up, the number one job, a youtube star. Ashley and get anything. Theyve got stars with billions of viewers on youtube, we dont know their names, the kids do, because they watch them. Charles and Amazon Opening up a store in new york city. Is amazon going back to the future . This he used to be a borders store that they put out of biz. I mean, what a message. Were going to put you, borders, out of business and when youre gone we are going to move where you were because you couldnt sell enough of your product and were going to sell the same thing, pretty much. Its funny what amazon is doing, theres actually one, an Amazon Bookstore near my house in chicago here and i tell you, the first few times i went there, it was jammed and the reason is, its because theyre also selling prime memberships there, trying to get a lot of prime signups, you do and you scan the book on your phone and realize how much more of a great deal prime is. They believe not so much the book, but this is the gateway drug, i guess, to a prime membership which therefore opens up tons of spending as you see come in through their prime memberships and thats going to uk more of the amazon eco sphere, so to speak. Because of the hightech names, weve got a race. Amazon and race to race, which hits 1,000 a share first . Its kind of tough. The valuations are different. Google has almost 50 more valuati valuation. 680 to over 400 for amazon. And hitting it first, is a number. Flip a coin, i think its google. Charles scott, what do you think . I think its amazon. Here is why. You know, when youre talking about shortterm price targets, i think both will hit a thousand by the end of the quarter, june 30. Just on charts, youre a chart guy, theres a touch, a smidge more momentum in the amazon upside price and id pick amazon to get a thousand before google and we own both. John, im sorry youre bigger, but the answer is amazon. The earnings estimates. Thank you, jack. Thats a great sign investigators love when that happens, that means that amazon is spending money on something thats going to reaccelerate their sales growth. Who cares about earnings when they look at amazon. The stock is about to head higher. Charles lets check on the big board. Again, this could be a historic day. Were up 55 points for the dow, well above 21,000 right now. Its sort of spinning our wheels for the strong open waiting for the next wave of buying. Nasdaq, take a look at that one, as well. Nasdaq up 15 points, its obviously been the juggernaut. Yesterday, nasdaq was joined by the s p 500 which found a way to hit a new alltime high. And after the fed report. And janet yellen more or less promising wall street shes not going to mess up the rally and that got them to rally. And hormel makes spam or skippy, thats not my fault, guys, im keeping up my end. Bargain. Not together. They say theyre good together, first fry the spam and then the skippy. And these jewelers, the Company Trips over itself. Those are down. Oil, an interesting movement. Its below 51 and this despite the fact that opec because opec rules out deeper cuts although theyll extend the cuts theyve got going on, ashley. Ashley 1. 8 Million Barrels per day, it was suppose today run out this Production Cut next month and theyve extended it through 2018, nine months, and its going to be deeper. The problem is for opec and that the u. S. And others are spupg o pumping out oil, and were swimming in it right now. It will take a while to work through that. So opec, its influence continuing to weaken. Charles john, at one point the u. S. Producers should put on the brakes as well. We brought back a lot of rigs. Yeah, we did. Its going to be all dependent on oil prices. Thats why i think were in a trading range. If its low enough, you have mainly the shale oil will quit producing and if its high enough, shale oil, its now the swing produce r just like ashley said, saudi arabia. You look at production in opec and what theyre going to do as far as cuts. You cant trust any of these guys. Charles thank you very much, john, scott and jack, really appreciate it. Well, were learning more about the terrorist who blew himself up at a concert in the u. K. , killing 22 innocent people. He fought in the libya militia as a teenager and his family knew all about it. Ambassador john bolton is next. Lets check on the big boards. Dow 30 stocks doing fairly well. Up 51 points. We broke 21,000 yesterday, were holding above it today approaching a new alltime high. I want it take a look at shares of tesla. Reports of unsafe working conditions at one of its plants. Nicole petallides has the details. Nicole good morning, charles, nobody wants to hear about unsafe working conditions in any way, shape or form. Tesla acknowledges that the ratef injury durinthe years 2013 through 2016 was higher than average, but at the se time, elon musk and his team say that some of the numbers are false. I will say that tesla is the only auto maker thats not under union rule there, and actually they have been looking into unionization by some of the workers. Theres an area of serious nonfatal injuries that they say was 69 higher than in 2014. What has tesla done . Theyve brought in a third shift of workers. Theyre learning a new way to become a car company. They have to pump out that model 3 sedan. So it made kind of changes and they said for the first time theyre above the working average. Tesla no more hurt workers, back to you. Charles now to this, the manchester bomber apparently wasnt the only member of his family to harbor extremist views. Libyan officials arrested the suicide bombers and two brothers. Bring in ambassador bolten. What do you say to this . We dont have all the facts, but what the authorities have uncovered so far i think is important that this suicide bomber was clearly part of a larger network. Its typical to use family structures, those are the people you trust the most. I think we are going to hear more. Isis took credit for this early. I dont believe everything that they say to say the least, but isis reach, and the potential for more attacks, thats why i think that the brits have moved to the highest level of alert because they clearly see the possibility of more incidents coming. Charles yeah, i think so far eight men have been detained and one woman brought in. Shes since been released. And this net gets wider and wider, larger and larger. Theres even a report that this have abedi went to germany days before this, suggesting this is a Terror Network not just in the u. K. , but a larger europeanwide Terror Network. Yeah, i think thats clear. Look, isis and others have been pushing these people out into europe, out into the United States, refugees from the conflict in syria, from the anarchy thats engulfed yemen and somalia and libyan, recruiting in the communities, in europe and in the United States where muslim either immigrants or refugees already were. Thats one of the things, i think, is a problem for Great Britain and for us, because its not simply people who have come here in the last year or two years. If you go back to the transportation bombings in london in july of 2005, over 80 people killed. And the perpetrators there were all people who had been born and raised in Great Britain. Theyve seen the benefits of the free society and reject it had incredible though that may be. So you have a combination of recruits, trained and deployed to isis, moving into communities where radicalization is already underway and the potential for really dense, complex etense seive networks is real. Charles one more for you, ambassador. President trump will attend his first nato summit today. He was critical of nato throughout the campaign. What do you say now about his new position and the fact that hes gotten nato to come around on some important issues . Well, i think that nato is the most important, most successful Political Military Alliance in Human History so im glad the president and nato are aligned. Theres reporting from europe this morning that france and germany have dropped their objections to nato taking a formal role in the conflict against isis, something the Trump Administration had proposed. I dont know if thats going to prove out accurate the nato meeting the president will be attending. But if you had a formal declaration of nato, its prepared to step up against isis, that would be very significant. Charles there was a point, as successful nato may or may not have been in the past, recently, in the more recent times that it needed to be refreshed for the new threats that emerged in the world. Its no longer us versus communist russia. And i think what the president said about nato meeting commitments and they took voluntarily 2 of gnt on defense and something they need to do and nobody thats dealt with nato doesnt appreciate their Decision Making sclerotic on a good day. Nato does have to move into a new era. Id like to see nato expand its reach even more broadly around the world and bring in other members, maybe from the pacific, japan, australia, singapore perhaps. I think that all ought to be on the table. We need nato, but theres no doubt, it could stand a lot of improvement. Charles ambassador bolton, thank you very much. And theres a look at this, well show you how this works. A texas sheriff getting blasted by the left for a Facebook Post he made after the u. K. Terror attack. His warning, quote, this is what happens when you disarm your citizens. Were talking to that sheriff in the next hour. Theres nothing more important than your health. 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I guarantee if theres a dad in your life, a guy in your life youre looking to buy a gift for youre not going to be disappointed going to our site. Charles can i check out the yellow hand grenade . Maybe ill buy myself. We call this the pineapple freedom, and opens your beer. Charles how are sales . We went on shark tank and were about to hit the 13 Million Dollar mark. Charles 13 million. Youve got your company and some things that are near and dear to your heart. The reason i came to new york, im support ago group that take 37 special op operators from, tech, finance and entrepreneurial field to show them opportunities when they get out of the military and help turn the next chapter of their life and enjoy the success that they deserve. Charles so, you came out of the military and you have this idea and you also had the ability it go out and make it happen. You know, we hear about 20 vets killing themselves every single day and we know for a lot of the public, theyve turned their backs on them. The ultimate goal for you to help them turn their lives around. We have half a million unemployed veterans in the United States. And its important that we grow our business and use our platform to help these guys find work. Its one thing on memorial day to say let me buy you a beer. And its next for the transition in the next part of their life. Charles thank you, and you contribute a substantial amount of money to vet organizations from your sales. Absolutely, thank you, man. Charles congratulations. President trump attending the nato summit in brussels. Terrorism the focus. And well take you there live when it happens. More varney after this. New Flonase Sensimist changes everything. Charles happening right now, President Trump attending the nato summit in brussels. The major topic in focus, terror and europes open borders. The president is about to speaking with german chancellor Angela Merkel. Were also hearting that british Prime Minister theresa may she might confront the president about Intelligence Leaks at the white house. Were going to take you there live when it all happens. New developments on manchester terror attack it, at least eight arrests related to the bomb having been made. Get this, the bomber previously fought in libya before traveling back to the uk. Later is hour, a texas sheriff haa warning for all of us. This is what happens when you have open borders. Coming up at 10 45, a new kind of security scanner. It can scan 600 people in an hour. It can detect bombs and weapons hidden underneath the suspects clothing. Well demonstrate it for you live because we have it right here. The second hour of Varney Company starts right now. Charles checks on the big board, we opened up strong and were holding in there with the latest gains. The market looking real strong here. Weve got the latest read on mortgage rates. Ashley. Ashley 3. 95 . Not bad, the lowest level of this year, 2017. It is still cheap to get out there to borrow money, if you can get a mortgage. Charles that is a different story all together. Thank you very much. Ashley sure. Charles right to the story of the hour, President Trump meets with nato. Sebastian gorka joins us now, President Trumps assistant on Foreign Policy we know terror will be the focus especially what happened after manchester. Do you think it changes the conversation . I undoubt he hadly think it will focus minds of nato allies, leaders and specialists involved in the meeting absolutely. Nato was the most successful military alliance in modern history, for one very specific rhine. It had a shared threat perception from all it is members. Whether you were belgium, canada, luxembourg you agreed, soviet union and communism was a threat to western civilization. Now these nations will be coming together to discuss the threat posed by global jihadism, what the president rightly called radical islamic terrorism. Charles sebastian, what i read, perhaps germany and france will make some sort of cursory nod that nato should amend its Mission Statement to unconclude terrorism but they wont be serious about this listen they had the election in france. Maybe they will take that as a signal their citizens arent ready to make such a dramatic shift . Im not here to talk for the leadership of france or of germany. I know the president will be meeting with macron. They will be discussing issues of National Security together. There will be a private dinner with key nato leaders also as well as eu leaders separately. So it has to focus, the events of manchester, the attacks in france, the attacks in germany, these are all have to be discussed and new policies, new approaches i know will be on the table because article 5 is not about the soviets rolling through the folder gap. Article v, the common defense has to be about things like isis and al qaeda. Charles sebastian, please stay right there, i have doug schoen fox news contributor, former clinton pollster. Were hearing reports that theresa may confront the president on Intelligence Leaks. First on Something Like that i can completely understand. If our intelligence is not sacrosanct, that what we collect and what we receive from our allies we have a terrible, teleroem. Lookthere has been an issue. It is not worth going through litigating it again but suffice it to say every rightthinking american wants intelligence to stay secure, private and only for those who it is intended. Charles one more for you, sebastian, the manchester bomber slipped through the cracks. There were red flags there. Weve seen the same thing happen here in america at some point authorities, this person became a person of interest and just for whatever reason, whether it is political will, whether budgets, constraints, police constraints, Technology Constraints we just did not follow their attacks. Well this is a very disturbing trend, not just in the uk but elsewhere. The question of individuals that have somehow got on to the radar screen, whether through their associations, what they said on social media or travel. The question of them not being actively pursued later or monitored, the bottom line is, it takes 20 people minimum to surveil somebody physically if theyre a suspect or person of interest. That is a lot of manpower. You start multiplying number of people who traveled to libya, syria, iraq, come back. Were talking about manpower issues as well as policy issues. Charles sebastian, so far the president s trip has been unmitt unmitigated success despite lack of coverage here in the United States. Two hours ago, former president obama had an event with america americas. In his commentary he used hot button words, xenophobia, nationalism, intolerance, antidemocratic trends, saying quote, we want hide behind walls. President obama feels like he is trolling President Trump on first foreign trip, first most important trip to europe. Any thoughts or comments on that. Very simply, with us one. He is trying to cover himself for eight years of catastrophic, counterterrorism policies and feckless Foreign Policy that created vacuums across the globe into which bad guys stepped, whether east sis or peer competitors. He have to say what he is saying now because he made the world a more dangerous place. The world is on fire. There are 65 million refugees in the world today. That is record. There were less refugees in 1945 at the end of world war ii. This is what the Trump Administration inherited but were jettisoned those strategies. You heard the president make the statement in riyadh and made the statement that the policies of last eight years are utter failure. Well take the threat seriously and president will obliterate groups like isis. Charles sebastian gorka, always pressure to have you on. My pleasure, things. Charles democrats slam the Health Care Plan after the cbo released score. Listen to what Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer had to say. The report makes clear, that trumpcare would be a cancer on the American Health care system, causing costs to skyrocket, making coverage you know affordable for those with preexisting conditions and many seniors and kicking millions off their Health Insurance. Unless youre a healthy millionaire, trumpcare is a nightmare. Charles remember when former president bill clinton said this during the 2016 campaign about obamacare . Roll tape. So youve got this crazy system where all of sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people are out there busting it, sometimes, 60 hours a week wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. It is a craziest thing in the world. Charles lets bring back doug schoen, author of the new book, america in the age of trump. Dug, bill clinton was talking about in kansas in 2013, morningly plan was on average 231. Now 476. Indiana, 242, goes to 421. Wyoming goes to 6124. West virginia, 260dollar plan, now 700 bucks. Do you really have health care when you cant afford the insurance. You dont, and thats why most of us democrats believe the answer is not to repeal obamacare and replace it with a system that knocks 23 Million People that the president was alluding to off the system, gets rid of 800 billion worth of medicaid expenditures that people have come to rely on of the answer is to try to fix obamacare, hold down costs and encourage competition across state lines, but a repeal and replace arguably, charles, could be worse than what we have now. Charles well it can always be worse but whatever happened to the notion that were talking essentially about people who can not afford health care. Sure. Charles what about the notion of growing an economy with a smaller government, allowing the resources of this economy to go into the private sector and maybe then more people could afford their own insurance and government would have to play a smaller role . This hill, this is slippery slope taken us to this dangerous point. I would be thrilled if that happened but i dont think were going to get anything beyond 2 growth if err lucky. All the estimates that i see suggest that will not generate enough revenue to achieve the goals youre saying. Charles personal responsibility, that has come up a few times. Some people have been more blunt bit than others like representative mow brooks in alabama. That kid running around with 300dollar belts on, you cant afford Health Insurance, why should someone else pay for it . I dont think most of the people who have gotten health care with obamacare are running around with 300dollar belts. Of course i in personal responsibility. But i believe in giving people a chance to get ahead and meet their needs and requirements. I think this legislation that is the president proposed too far and cuts too much. Charles you talked about getting rid of borders and creating more competition. That is not the official democratic policy. Right. Thats correct. Charles what are the democrats who hold Elective Office now going to make this better . Well, there is some beginning in preliminary talks in the senate to get a better bipartisan bill done, but candidly, charles, my party is much more interested in resisting than cooperating. For us to achieve what youre talking about, we need bipartisan consideration of fixes to obamacare, that will empower people, make sure those who need care get it and those who dont need it dont. Charles doug schoen, by the way, congratulations on the book. I appreciate it, charles. Charles next story. The tsa updating the screening rules. H, you have the details. Interesting. No big surprise, ever since airline brag gauge fees gone up and up and people are responding by stuffing their carryon bags during the process but what happens it slows down the screening process when you travel. You put the bag stuffed it so full that screeners cant get a good look what is inside. Paper covers a lot of things. If you have any chocolate in there, that looks likes an, explosive, it slows everything down, then authorities have to get the bag out and rest of it. What they will do have more items having to take out of your carryon bags put into trays. Sounds bad, i know, but theory being, that will save time on the other end when they do the screening. So all food, all electronics, larger than cell phones have to be placed in bins. This is only being tested right now, but you know, as we gear up for the fun and games of summer air travel this could make it even more frustrating. Charles sounds like a headache in the making. Thank you. Up next, the texas sheriff who has a warning if we have an open border policy we are inviting terrorists in. That sheriff reacts to this next. We stand in absolute solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom. So many young, beautiful, innocent people, living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers. Here comes the fun with seadoo. 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Again nato was designed to fight back the threat of russia, communist russia, that was a major success, threats coming from outside of the countries, particularly within the countries, including radical islam. Ashley he called nato obsolete during the campaign. Since gone back on that. He will have pretty tough questions. He will have to deal with british Prime Minister theresa may going after him what is wrong with your Intelligence Services leaking all this information including pictures of the bombing suspect in manchester . The brits very upset about this apparently caused distress with families of victims, he will get an earful from theresa may. Full day for the from the president. Charles certainly is. This is what diplomacyall about. Watching President Trump on the Maiden Voyage as president of the United States, commanderinchief, nato a major issue, a big issue. We just, we just had a few ashley other big issue, they pay their fair share. Charles 2 . Ashley 2 of gdp. Some are, some are not. Lets be clear on that. Charles most are not. Ashley yes. Charles all right. Take a look at this, a texas sheriff making headlines after condeming the terror attack in manchester. Ashley, what exactly did he have to say . Ashley Denton County sheriff, tracy murphy went off on a rant if you like and posted these comments. I think weve got an excerpt for you. It says, he says, Pay Attention to what you see in manchester, enand, tonhtPay Attention to what is happening in europe. Is is what happens when you disarm your citizens, when you open your borders without the proper vetting, when you allow Political Correctness to dictate how you respond to an enemy that wants to kill you. Very pointed comments. Charles look who joins us now. Come on in sheriff tracy murphy, Denton County, texas, sheriff. Sheriff, you got a lot of pushback on the comments. What are your thoughts now . I stand by my comments. I really thought they were on target. I thought i was, basically repeating what many people have been saying for years. I was angered by what i saw in manchester. Children being killed. I have kids of my own. It was a, made me think of them and schools and people i have sworn to protect. I just feel like the, what the politicians and governments have allowed to happen in europe, and for the past eight years here quite frankly, cant stand. Charles you know, it is interesting because manchesterborn rocker morrissey, said the exact same thing in a different way, more or less pointing to the fact that those same politicians, theyre always safe, always surrounded by people with guns. They always live in protected homes. Theyre never targets of these sort of hideous attacks. So a lot of people believe the way you believe but what about the notion you would take so much heat for voicing your opinion . Yeah, that, that shocks me. I expected a lot of criticism from the left, from liberals, but i expected that more locally than worldwide. I dont understand why a texas sheriffs Facebook Post has gone worldwide. I received emails from across the world. 99 supportive. I received many from manchester itself, supportive. I received some condemned me for what i said. You about i think, Political Correctness is one of the reasons that these things happen. People are afraid theyre growing to be called what i have been called, a racist or ismophobe or hate mongerrer. People dont s out because they dont want to be called these things. Im not afraid to be called those things. Im not that. I just speak the truth. Charles sheriff murphy, do you think ultimately well have to do more than just speak out and take some actions that you talked about, that you espoused before these things are changed or will have to as many politicians try to tell us, convince us, just live with this from now on . We cant live with this. Thats ridiculous. You know, since september 11th, we said well never forget. Well, weve forgotten. It is time we did something about this. It is time we dont worry about if were called names, that we take action, that people understand that if they see something, if they need to report that. And governments cant be afraid they are going to offend people to protect their citizens. It is outrage just. It has outrageous and has got to stop. Charles sheriff, one of the reasons a texas sheriff garners so much attention is because your state is at the forefront and fight against Illegal Immigrants here in country, against the crime committed by the gangs, particularly ms13 and others, and of course recent legislation that has passed but do you think that is the perfects are pefor rewriting, if you will, what is going wrong in the west, not just in europe but also in this country . Absolutely. If, you know, the left wants to make Border Security a race issue or religion issue. Until people understand that its a protection issue, its a National Security issue thats ms13, terrorists, that other people who want to come into our country and cause us harm are pouring across our border, and federal government has failed miserably on securing our border and our governor and our state are doing best they can with state troops and rangers with the Border Patrol and i. C. E. To stop the flow of these folks coming over, and you know, the president is called a racist because he wants to build a wall. It is not a wall to keep people out. Its a funnel to make sure we can vet the folks to see who is coming into our country which is what we have ever right to do. Charles sheriff, thank you very much for your time. I appreciate you coming in. Thank you for having me. Charles you saw President Trump now entering the nato Headquarters Building there in brussels, belgium. This is his first nato summit. A lot at stake here. Want to bring in Lieutenant Colonel tony shaffer who joins us now. Colonel shaffer, what are your thoughts as President Trump enters, enters this well, were going to get tony a minute, but, ashley, a lot at stake here because the first part of President Trumps trip was all red carpets and for the most part he wowed the saudis. Ashley sure. Charles there was a huge economic deal out of it. There was a huge defense component it to it. Israel was thrilled, no president ever made them the first part of their first journey outside of the country. Ashley goes to rome, meets with the pope. Charles goes to the rome, meets with the pope. They exchanged books and bless santries, a 180degree than we saw in the campaign. This is more hostile audience. Ashley this is gettings down to business. He was on the Campaign Calling nato obsolete, saying they needed to pay their fair share as part of the u. S. s overall help in the defense of the west. And he is going to get a lot of pointed questions. He a great negotiator. We know that. He will say look, pay your fair share. It is not our job to protect you, well help you as a group but you all have to pitch in. That will be number one for sure. Charles we do now have colonel shaffer . Good morning. Charles a good morning. A lot at stake, fools like ashley speaking about President Trump as a negotiator, that the giveandtake here will be President Trump saying that nato is not obsolete. That we do need them. We want to be a part of it. Nato for their part, hey, we do need to kick in our fair share. Also amend a Mission Statement somewhat. Understanding that the modernday threat isnt a threat it was 50 years ago. Do you think that will happen . I believe so. One of the things i had published in fox news opinion is the idea of nato 2. 0. The idea, President Trump is askingo do more, why not build a betterato they want to pay for . You need to modernize, make it a product countries can rely upon and use for purposes of their defense today. Of the today the two issues is cyber and terror. Simply put, we believe, i believe, the nato 2. 0 needs to retool itself to do heart tasks that individual Police Forces and the collective Police Forces of europe cant do. This is an example from manchester. Look, this individual, the terrorist who conducted the attack traveled to libya and did a number of other things. Frankly i dont expect Manchester Police to be tracking this guy. I suspect element of nationstate or in the case of nato, multiple nation states brought to fair, intelligence sharing, intelligence collection, all we things we did during the cold war led to success in 1989. It led to collective success. Nato has special Operations Forces. We need to consider using special Operations Forces out to take out terrorists in advance before they launch anything. The intelligence share something important. Charles intelligence sharing is important but being good stewards an holding on to the intelligence is critical. In the last 24 hours, there has been a serious issue particularly out of the uk with how we handled some information on the terror suspect, bomber and some. Leaks. I want you to take a listen to what theresa may had to say about nato and intelligencesharing. On the issue of the intelligencesharing with the United States and america we have a special relationship with the usa. It is our deepest defense and Security Partnership that we have. Of course that partnership is built on trust and part of that trust is knowing that intelligence can be shared confidentially and i will be making clear to President Trump today that intelligence that is shared between Law Enforcement agencies must remain secure. Charles colonel shaffer, i think she has an amazing point here. As theyre trying to round up suspects involved in this Terror Network names are being leaked to the newspapers. Certainly that doesnt help. Well, look weve had this problem here for a while and you and i spoken about this several times. The bottom line i dont believe President Trump, he is appointed to higfice was involved in a leak. This is the same issue we faced with, where did it show up . The new york times. So there is a clue. We do have a problem with individuals within the National Security infrastructure leaking information. And again this ought to be a call for us, charles, to redouble our effort to detect who those individuals are, and go after them. This is no small issue. The leaking of this name, those details about the attack does hamper and slow down the ability of our ally, the british, to go after and investigate this. Yes, she is completely correct. Ive been in combat with the british via nato. We all, the five is, australian, new Zealand Defense force, canadians, british and us all share pretty much everything, almost everything. Because we do it that way, the expectation that protection is respected. In this case someone leaked it, and i believe someone either obama holdover or someone more aligned with hillary clinton. Charles you know, ashley, the there has to be a purge there. You know, it is really becoming infuriating because, there is a, attacks are sort of, if you would delegitimatize, try to delegitimatize the election of President Trump but now were getting into areas that create danger, danger for ordinary citizens. Ashley yes, we know theres a problem. It has been welldocumented, everyone is wringing their hands saying we need to plug the leak. The latest one with the United Kingdom and terror investigation is plain outrageous, quite embarrassing to be honest with you. President trump will have to say i dont know who is doing it but the guest is right. Someone in there who is quite happy to share out this information, someone who is wanting to continue to discredit the security setup that we have in this country. You cant be leaking out that information. The name of the suspect. No one in the uk knew. It came out in the United States. Pictures of this bombers backpack. Pictures taken from where the bomb went off ends up in the new york times. How does that happen . Charles colonel shaffer, how hard is it . Because regular folks out there dont get why there has not been a major pur . Yes. Charles is it that difficult to track down some leakers, put some of them in jail, meantime purge all potential leakers out there and bring in President Trumps handpicked team . The answer charles, it is a matter of political will. I have spoken with a number of senior members of President Trumps intelligence team. I recommended very harsh applications of two things. First, for example, unmasking individual citizens, leaking of that, only handful of people have access. Total of 10 to 15. So not that hard. On Something Like this it is equally small. The intelligencesharing while extensive regarding working together, details like this are held very closely to only senior leadership. Again were talking about a group of less than 20. In my judgment, a matter of political will deciding you will do this. The third factor, who investigates . James comey, one of the reasons that james comey was fired he was asked directly by both President Trump and by trey gowdy in congress, will you investigate this, no, im not interested. Like having a garbage man will not pick up your garbage. Really . Time to find a new garbage man to pick it up. That is what we need to do. You need someone competent doing these sort of investigations. The last factor, releasing, put it kindly, all those holdovers, technically career, political appointees have pretty much been pushed out. People basically converted from being appointee to career. Those career folks in different intelligence establishments are ones leaking information. Charles it is pretty hard to get rid of those folks . It is not impossible. This takes political will. There are ways of doing it. My friend and mentor, john lehman, former secretary of the navy had similar issue when he took over the navy back in the 80s. There are ways of doing it. You have to be bureaucratically astute. Severeminded regarding application of rules, regulations. You just have to do it. Charles hold on a second. I want to the audience to know that is the arrival of frances new president , macron, to the nato summit. Hold on a second. Looks like ashley it is president . President trump and germany chancellor Angela Merkel coming out. Ashley yep. Charles everyone is meeting on the carpet here. Macron goes first. Merkel, some people may have comments on that of course. They have a special relationship to put it mildly, if you will. And now there is a handshake. Really strong, vigorous handshake. Ashley lot of smiles. School photo as they say. Charles well this is what it is all about. There are some serious issues here that are going to, that is going to impact the world, the worlds security, where we go from here. How we fight, the currentday scourges. Ashley what a modernday nato looks like. Charles what a modernday nato looks like. This is a big deal. This will probably be the most critical part of President Trumps trip which thus far has been extraordinarily successful. Colonel shaffer, were looking at President Trump, Angela Merkel, they just both greeted macron who is theras well. Wh are your though . We know that germanys interests, frances interests are not the same as americas on a whole lot of key issues here . Right. There has been a competition, if you will, with the eu the eu, led by germany and merkel is attempting to do something called the European Army. I always grin when i say it. Like politicians with soldiers hmmm. What could go wrong . And that is what is exactly going on here. The whole concept is basically they want a separate European Army which does european bidding. Kind of like, no, i think redundant what nato is supposed to do. Nato is the organization, condominium, the collective Security Organization that does that job. Frankly put, i put in england, i visited warwick university, susan evans was on question time with me where we talked about it in front of the student there and we talked about what does brexit mean for the future of england . Because eu wants england to pay for this army before they leave and they want, they want to basically diminish the role of nato. Frankly i cant speak for the british. Context i have had on british multiple times, theyre more of a mind to do what were talking about, he reinvigorating nato, stepping away from merkel and e. U. Because of brexit because it is the right thing to do. Nato has a proven record, it played a huge role defeating the soviets during the cold war and kind of atrophied since then. Why invent a European Army to take away any potential rebuild of nato when you have a commandandcontrol infrastructure . You have british who will be outside of the eu they have issues and requirements regarding collective security they bring along to the table. This is the biggs issue between france, germany and United States. What is going to be the future. Will it be this eu army that nobody supports i who is competent or reinvigorate nato. Charles of course an eu army would exclude america paying any money. Precisely. And our leadership. Charles and our leadership around intelligence capabilities perhaps. I got to tell you, i think the cracks in nato at least for me go back to when iran seized those british ships many years ago and england lets listen to Angela Merkel, because she will be the first to speak here. They showed us by the way photos of the old berlin wall as well. Translator dear colleagues, natos new headquarters will be the future point of reference of nato. A modern building like the building of headquarters is a reference to the future. However if we are to find con vicinitiesingances for the future it is good to remind ourselves what we achieved in the past and what we can build on. This fragment of the berlin wall embodies the history that during the cold war had left its mark on nato for many decades. However, this wall also symbolizes something that has been a dederming factor for my life for many years because i lived on the eastern side of the wall and it is the division of berlin. It is an expression of the fact that if we stand firm as did nato, if we can rely on the courage of our friends from central and Eastern Europe and from at the time, we can bring down a wall and make sitting to be remembered. Our alliance is united in the a awareness of the importance to cooperate if we insist on freedom and we also are united in the trust that it is not isolation and building of walls that make us successful but open societies that share the same values. Ladies and gentlemen, with the end of the eastwest conflict a new era began, a new era bringing new challenges and new dangers. We continue to be an alliance built on shared values, showing solidarity with its members. Germany will never forget the contribution nato made towards making our country become reunited. And this is why we will continue to make our contribution towards security and solidarity as members of this alliance. [applause] natos greatest strength is the enduring bond between north america and europe. We saw the strength of that after the 9 11 attacks against the United States. President trump, those attacks struck at the heart of your own hometown in new york. And for the first time nato invoked our collective, our collective defense clause, articlv. One for all, and all for one. Hundreds of thousands of european and canadian soldiers have served shoulder to shoulder with u. S. Troops in afghanistan for over a decade. To help insure it never again become as safe haven for international terrorists. It is our solidarity that keeps our nation safe, and when our open and free societies come under attack, we stand up for our values and our way of life. That is why a strong nato is good for europe and good for north america. The 9 11 and article v memorial will be a daily reminder of our vital bond and today we will commit to do more in our come mon struggle against. Mr. President , a great honor to have you here and great honor to give you the floor, please. Thank you. Thank you very much, secretarygeneral stoltenberg. Chancellor merkel, thank you very much. Other heads of state and government, i am honored to be here with members of an alliance that has promoted safety and peace across the world. Prime minister may, all of the nations here today grieve with you and stand with you. I would like to ask that we now observe a moment of silence for the victims and families of the savage attack which took place in manchester. [moment of silence] thank you. Terrible thing. This ceremony is a day for both remembrance and resolve. We remember and mourn those nearly 3,000 innocent people who were brutally murdered by terrorists on september 11th , 2001. Our nato allies responded swiftly and decisively invoking the first time in its history the article v collective defense commitments. The recent attacks on manchester in the United Kingdom demonstrates the depths of the evil we face with terrorism. Innocent little girls and so many others were horribly murdered and badlyinjured while attending a concert. Beautiful lives with so much great potential, torn from their families forever and forever. It was a barbaric and vicious attack upon our systemization. All people who cherish life must unite in finding, exposing and removing these killers and extremists, and yes, losers. They are losers. Wherever they exist in our societies, we must drive them out and never, ever, let them back in. This call for driving out terrorism is a message i took to a historic gathering of arab and Muslim Leaders across the region, hosted by saudi arabia. There i spent much time with king salman, a wise man, who wants to see things get much better rapidly. The leaders of the middle east have agreed at this unprecedented meeting to stop funding the radical ideology that leads to this horrible terrorism all over the globe. My travels in meetings have given me renewed hope that nations of many faiths can unite to defeat terrorism, a Common Threat to all of humanity. Terrorism must be stopped in its tracks or the horror you saw in manchester and so many other places will continue forever. You have thousands and thousands of people pouring into our various countries and spreading throughout and in many cases we have no idea who they are. We must be tough, we must be strong and we must be vigilant. The nato of the future must include a great focus on terrorism and immigration, as well as threats from russia and on natos eastern and southern borders. These grave security concerns are the same reason that i have been very, very direct with secretary stoltenberg and members of the alliance in saying that nato members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations but 23 of the 28 nations are not paying what they should be paying and are supposed to be paying for their defense. This is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the United States and many of those nations owe money from past years and not paying over those last eight years. The United States spent more on defense than all other nato countries combined. If all nato members spent 2 of their gdp on defense last year we would have a north 119 billion for our collective twins and for the financing of of additional nato reserves. We should recognize with these chronic under payments and growing threats, even 2 of gdp is insufficient to close the gaps in modernizing readiness and the size of forces. We have to make up for the many years lost. 2 is the bare minimum for confronting todays very real and very vision sure threats. If nato countries made their full and complete contributions, then nato would be Even Stronger than it is today, especially from the threat of terrorism. I want toxtend my appreciation to the 9 11 memorial and museum in new york for contributing this remnant of the north tower as well as to chancellor merkel and the german people for donating this portion of the berlin wall. It is truly fitting that these two artifacts, now reside here so close together at the new nato headquarters. And i never asked once what the new nato headquarters cost. I refuse to do that. But it is beautiful. Each one marks a pivotal event in the history of this alliance and in the eternal battle between good and evil. On one side a testament to the triumph of our ideals over a totalitarian communist ideology bent on the oppression of millions and millions of people. On the other, a painful reminder of the barbaric evil that still exists in the world and that we must confront and defeat together as a group, as a world. This twisted mass of metal reminds us not only of what we have lost but also what forever endures, the courage of our people, the strength of our resolve, and the commitments that bind us together as one. We will never forget the lives that were lost. We will never forsake the friends who stood by our side. And we will never waiver in our determination to defeat terrorism and to achieve lasting security, prosperity and peace. Thank you very much. It is a great honor to be here. Thank you. [applause] charles so we heard now from President Trump who followed german chancellor america america. Her focus on the past accomplishments of nato and the berlin wall while President Trump reminding us that 23 of the 28 nato members have yet to pay their fair share and its a lot of money doing the math. It is 119 billion. Imagine what that could have done for our collective defense and safety. Of course his focus on the modernday threat of terrorism, and the needs to protect our borders. So we saw them speak from different lecturns there, an also come at this issue from different points of view, setting the stage for what is going to be a historic nato meeting. I want to bring back in colonel shaffer. Your thoughts on both comment from Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump . It is very clear. I appreciate Angela Merkel crediting nato for hard and Effective Work it has done over its lifetime. Clearly germany benefiting more than other countries. Lets face it. They were going to be the primary battlefield had the russians, had soviets come across. As a young lieutenant back in the 80s, i trained in what we call the full ton gap scenario, we believed soviet tank armies would come through germany. This was no small issue. Nato was effectively doing its job. As we know the wall came down in 1989. That is a long time ago. I look at comments of President Trump and others talking about what needs to be done now. Why do we do what we do and what is the cost . The threats are different but, lets face it. The russians are back. Vladmir putin has been very aggressive in going into the baltic states, threatening them. He is attempting to annex more territory. There is the issue of crimea. There is the issue of ukraine. So we must taken main nato as a credible deterrent. And then adapt it to what it must do to protect the citizens of europe. Again, charles, in the 80s, i was under cover in germany chasing terrorists. Back then it was red army faction, the raf. They were he defeated eventually by working closely between the u. S. And german Intelligence Forces and special Operations Forces. So the time again now is to refocus that. Nato has not been pushing hard. Charles let me just ask though,. Sure. Charles we saw the faces of theresa may, Angela Merkel and others, they didnt seem too happy with President Trump bringing up amount of money they may have added to this. Right. Charles earlier today barack obama was at an event with Angela Merkel where he said were making a mistake by just only counting the budget, a Defense Budget with respect to contributions. It should include other things as well. What do you make of that sort of line of thinking . I think it is time for president obama to retire, im sorry. He is not the president. Look, he is not being helpful here. I think we need to focus what is best for nato. I dont believe mr. Trump is saying we can only require the Standard Measure of how effective you are by your budget but, the simple truth is this, charles. As we, United States, those other the other eight nations are ones carrying the burden. Either were in this together or were not. Look, im all for, as we talked about early in the interview here, of reinvigorating nato, making nato something people want to pay for because they see benefit, but at the same time, the agreement was, each nation signed up and said we will pay a certain percentage of our Gross National product to do this. So simply put, President Trump is simply asking allies to come to the table and do what they promised to do. So i dont see somehow that is extraordinary or a challenge. That is the right thing to do. Charles colonel shaffer, what do you think will be the most contentious issue here . Will it be issue around how to combat radical islam, not only in the foreign theaters in the middle east and elsewhere, but also the domestically, particularly as the issue of socalled homegrown terror becomes more prevalent . Let me answer that in the way i think most appropriate related to capability. Nato has immense capability to share information and protect it for the most part. And actually work to implement special operations, and we have not done well in molding things together. Remember, charles, the big failure of 9 11 was failure to share information. We in special operations and intelligence had indications al qaeda was operating here. We were precluded to share that with the fbi. That information never came together to create a Critical Mass of understanding. We want to prevent that from happening. Clearly the events in england, france and belgium, all these attacks they were individuals were under the radar of Law Enforcement. So what are we missing . Connection to a larger network. Nato is suited to do hard intelligence collection operations to do a bigger map of the networks. That is controversial, bringing nato capability to that challenge, but, charles, one that has to be done. Charles it has got to be done. Colonel shaffer, we appreciate your expertise. Sure. Charles walking us through all of this. Wonder why im all of sudden in a hall, i want to bring in michael boeing begin, ceo of evolve. The company has a new security scanner. Tell us what it does. It is designed automatically to look for mass casualty threats, the kind of thing we saw in manchester, suicide bombs, firearms but very high throughput unlike systems we are used to at courthouses at airports. Will do 700 plus people per hour. Charles 700 people an hour. Zooming through. Zooming through, exactly. Completely automated, red line, green light. Most people come through, leave all things normally carry in your pockets. No more dog bowls to put stuff in. Walk through, just at normal pace around system will automatically be screening threats. Charles give me specifics. You say mass threat. What does that encompass . Explosives and firearms primary at this setting. We can look for other objects. But if youre worried about train stations, stadiums, places where concerned about the crowd, then those are really the things that Security Professionals are most concerned about. Charles that is really compelling, mike, particularly the firearms part. If i have on a belt buckle, how will it distinguish a belt buckle, not a firearm . Use combination technologies, millimeter wave imaging and Magnetic Field sensing to look for signatures from firearms and explosives. Charles i think you want to give us a demonstration . Absolutely. Jim is going to walk through. What you see as he walks through at normal pace. The system automatically scans him. Sees a threat that he is carrying and you can see on the screen here, that it is identified with a blue cross on firearm. Charles raised a red flag, pinpoints where the issue may be. That is exactly right. Enables a guard to quickly resolve any alarm they might see. So that was a firearm. Now separately the system is designed to automatically identify, explosives as well. So pete just came through wearing a simulated explosive device. So as you see here, the system place ad redbox on the image to let the guard know, now youre looking for something a little different than a firearm. Resolution process could be excuse me, show me what is underneath your coat. Charles could this be used in airports or other things that theyre looking for this doesnt necessarily check for yet . Airport check point are lookinfor threats to the aircraft so it is a different set of concerns. What this system is looking for and might be applicable is the front door of the airport. So after brussels and ataturk attacks, obviously manchester the most recent example, its a soft target threat that folks are concerned about it. Charles right. Where you are looking for that mass casualty. Charles it does feel like now the perimeters, dont have to be pushed out further. Exactly. Charles you would probably push out the perimeter, whether a train station or concert hall further and have this as your initial scanning device . That is exactly right. What we cant afford to do is create another bottleneck. So we starte though were a new company, my core team and i have been doing Detection Technologies over 20 years. We started evolv to completely eliminate extra security and eliminate bottle incomes that create larger crowds and larger wait times and quite honestly, new targets. Charles cost, have you sold any. We have a system in the field. Were actively shipping units now. Were at entertainment venues. Charles around the world or primarily in america. Around the world. Charles evolv problemly the perfect product unfortunately in the perfect time. Mike, you we saw here reminder we saw different ways to keep americans and people safe around the world. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Charles more varney after this. Y unfold before your eyes. 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And while youre living your best years, youll continue to own and live in the home you love. Retire your way. Retire with one reverse mortgage. Charles 11 a. M. In new york, 8 a. M. In california. Of course, we are on all the big stories of the day including President Trump attending his first nato summit. The cbo saying that 23 million fewer americans would have Health Insurance under the obamacare replacement plan x. The latest on the u. K. Terror attack. Three members of the terrorists family are now under arrest. And get this, the bomber fought in libya. Were going to have a lot more on that coming up. Heres whats new this hour. The federal government charging four people with Insider Trading tips on health care policy. And two items from california. A top earthquake expert is warning californias big one is overdue, and its imminent saying people should start preparing right now. And take a look at this, also this california big landslide there burying a highway in more than 100 million tons of rock and dirt, adding to the states record 1 billion in highway damage. And were back to, well, to that report on concealedcarry permits topping 15 million last year. Thats the largest oneyear increase ever. Later this hour were going to speak to the head of the u. S. Concealcarry association on why this is happening. Weve got a jampacked hour. The third hour of Varney Company starts right now. Charles start with a look at the big board. The dow barreling its way toward an alltime high to join the s p and nasdaq which are are there. Also want to take a look at oil. There was what might have been good news, about a nine month be extension in the peck cuts, but they in the opec cuts, but they werent deepened. We have encouraging numbers from retailers, bucking the trend that we have been seeing for the most part. And some hightech names all at alltime highs, google, Parent Company alphabet, amazon, netflix all, again, at new, record highs. Just in the last hour, President Trump calling out nato members for not contributing their fair share to their defense. Roll tape. Nato members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations. But 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they are supposed to be paying for their defense. Charles man, did you see the sourpusses there . Golly, ashley, we know thats going to be the most contentious part of the trip, but he laid out facts. These werent opinions. [laughter] i loved every second of it, they sat there basically being scolded, and no one better than donald trump to do it. By the way, he also got a little b at Angela Merkel by sayi thousands of immigrants have been allowed to pour into countries. We must be tough, strong and individual hasnt, so a vigilant. So a double whammy for merkel. Also we just got a statement from the administration regarding those leaks of the investigation into the manchester bomber thats so upset the u. K. And theyre blaming the u. S. , and theyre not going to share information with the u. S. Anymore on that particular investigation. Heres the statement from the administration, it says. The alleged leaks coming out of the administration are deeply troubling. These leaks have been going on for a long time, and mr. Trump says my administrations going to get to the bottom of this. So im asking the department of justice and other relevant agencies to launch a complete review of this matter. If appropriate, the culprit will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and there is no relationship we cherish more than the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom. Charles wow. Im glad the statement came out, we needed it. Yes. Charles health care, last night cbo said 23 million americans would not have insurance. Grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform, joins us now. Grover, i guess the score was more or less what everyone sort of thought it was, and it brings back the debate here, the headlines all focused on the 23 million more americans who wont have health care, not the fact that obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster. Well, its worse than that. Their numbers are nonsense. They might have pointed out that they claimed there would be 24 million americans in the exchanges now, and its 10. So when youre off by those kind of numbers in predicting obamacare as its supposed to be growing off by a factor of, you know, 100 , the then tell people that you know whats going to happen is nonsense. They say obamacares going to have 18 Million People in the exchanges next year if nothing happened. Its been going down from 12 to 10. They claim its going to be 18 . So from ridiculous numbers ty say it will fall. They also count the fact that more than 10 million americans are forced to buy obamacare because of mandates, and they wouldnt do it without the mandates. So the if you take down the berlin wall, you announce that people have been denied east german citizenship. Its the way they put it out charles right. Is limited in their capacity. Theyre wrong about who gets what kind of Health Insurance. Theyre silent on the doubling of Health Care Premiums as a result of obamacare for people getting individual insurance. I mean, obama said it was going to go down by 2500, it went up instead by roughly the same amount. Charles right. And, grover, to your point, Blue Cross Blue Shield just the latest insurer pulling out of obamacare, the company says its lost more than 100 million in the last year over this, so obviously it points to sustainability. Oh, absolutely. What we do get with the house proposal and the senates working on coming up with their version of it is roughly a trillion dollar reduction in taxes, a little more than a trillion dollars in spending restraint, and with Health Savings accounts and efforts to take people who have preexisting conditions and get them insurance but take them out of the insurance pool so that you and i arent paying higher premiums because somebody else has an existing 50,000ayear problem, you take resources out of existing spending charles right. And make sure that people can afford Health Insurance even if they have preexisting conditions. So all of the concerns that people have raised are actually met in these reforms charles but still, grover, last night no less than four republicans in the senate voiced some anxiety, if you will, with this cbo score in the house version of the house bill. Sure. Oh, if i was running for office, i would be very happy that an agency of government with a history of being wrong repeatedly and always in the same direction not sometimes one way, sometimes the other once again put out a flawed report with all the numbers there to look at. Their claim is the number of people in obamacares exchanges collapses, theyre predicting itll be a big increase next year. And then if you reform it, that imaginary big increase will disappear. My goodness. And if you dont force people to buy obamacare which they dont want and they only do it because they get find if they dont, when you let them leave, they announce, well, theyve been denied insurance. No, they didnt want what the government had because obamacare, as you know, is a lousy deal. It costs too much and it does too little for you. Charles absolutely. By the way, you know, the big day for the markets and the economy and a central issue here has always been jobs. And, of course, its a major shift in the job market because of automation. I want to look at some of your tweets on this topic. The first one, 1990, 70 of americans worked in agriculture, mining, construction and manufacturing, 2017, 14 of americans now hold such jobs. What percentage of that is trade, which percentage is automation, grover . Well, what you see a lot of it is improved productivity. You have more fewer people producing more. It is exactly this in manufacturing what happened over a longer period of time with agriculture. We produce much more food today with 1 or 2 of the population in agriculture compared to turn of the century when you had 70 and going in the past 80 and 90 of the country on the farm. So the good news is we produce more food with fewer people, more manufacturing goods with fewer people which allows you to have more people doing new and interesting things charles so then let me jump in yeah. Charles the question is, will Technology Kill our jobs . Your tweet, youre saying war code bar code scanning since 1990, number of cashiers increased, so even with that technology initially people said it could be a job killer, we saw growth. Yes. Charles are we overconcerned about all of this . Im not. But the worrywarts are. The people who cant imagine a dynamic economy, who dont understand who predicted uber or lyft or airbnb . Theres 700,000 people on uber, 150,000 on lyft. These are jobs that ten years ago not only didnt exist, they werent imagined. All of the americans who are now working in fracking and the tremendous increase in oil and natural gas that we have. We were told in 1980 limits to growth. Remember peak oil . How many times have we hit peak oil . Charles yeah. Every decade. People who bet against the market, who bet against American Ingenuity have always been wrong. Theyre wrong again. Charles you mentioned uber and lyft, and everyone knows theyre ultimately going to go to driverless cars. In one of your tweets you say will robots steal our jobs . Since 1990 the number of atms have risen from 100,000 to 425,000, and the number of bank tellers rose from 400,000 to 500,000. What about replacing rosie the riveter from the jetsons . Well, minute has to make rosie from the jetsons, somebody has to maintain rosie. I think every time weve moved forward on new technology this is roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelts wife went around saying in 1949 its, weve done enough on technology and innovation. Lets just get everybody employed now. Wed all be working with shovels, you know . [laughter] the luddites are always wrong. Now, this a closed society in a closed society, maybe in north korea every time you have a new piece of equipment you put somebody out of work. But in a free, open and dynamic economy . When minute does something that frees up two people to do something else, they can do something else. And theres a wonderful, very interesting policy that only mark penn was telling me about, democratic pollster. 6 of americans when asked would you like your children to work in manufacturing, 6 say yes. So we keep talking about and if you go back 30, 40, 50 years, everybody talked about how much fun it was to be on the farm except many people given a choice choose not to live on a farm. They want to live somewhere else or do something else. Charles grover, thanks for bringing those up because a lot of people are anxious and nervous about it. Thank you very much, buddy. You got it. Charles well, the democrats are slamming the Gop Health Care bill. Were going to tell you what they said, but remember when bill clinton said this . So youve got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 more Million People have health care, and then the people are out there busting sometimes at 60 hours a week wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. 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Somewhere in there. Now, whats significant about that is it doables the number doubles the number it received in the first part of the year. They get them from around the world, as you can imagine. 115 requests from the government of japan, 159 requests from germany. And theyll look at these. The they believe that it discover tens the bounds of privacy, they will reject. That doesnt happen very often. But they do have the option. They have to prove their case. Charles thank you very much. Yeah. Charles now this, President Trump spooking last hour at the nato speaking last hour at the nato summit. Listen to this. Over the last eight years, the United States spent more on defense than all other nato countries combined. If all nato members had spent just 2 of their gdp on defense last year, we would have had another 119 billion for our collective defense and for the financing of additional nato reserves. Charles joining us now, special report host bret baier. Bret, President Trump having an extraordinarily successful foreign trip thus far, but hes facing his harshest critics and probably toughest moments here with this nato summit. Thats right. Good morning, charles. I tell you, it was an awkward moment, clearly. You could look at the faces of those other leaders9 that nato meeting as he was kind of calling them out. But the bottom line here is no one should be surprised. The white house forecast that this is what he was going to do. There is a lack of paying their bills. There are only five countries in the 28 nations who actually pay what they promised to pay, 2 of their gdp for defenserelated tied to nato. The u. S. Pays 4 . And this goes back years and years where they havent paid the bill. Donald trump is sayingst time to pay is saying its time to pay the bill. And its awkward, its painful for some of those leaders to hear it, but he is the disrupter and promised to be, and this is him. The rest of the speech though, charles, obviously tied to fighting terrorism and unique bonds that hes made on this trip with saudi arabia and others that he thinks are going to bear fruit down the road. Charles and very complimentary of king solomon and saudi arabia as well. It looks like hes established another relationship that had fallen through the cracks with president obama. I want to go back to theresa may who looked very, very upset, in part because of whats happened after this bombing in manchester. But i want to also show where she and President Trump, they did have a chance to talk a little bit. Okay, so we see it right there. What do you make of this . I mean, obviously, they have a great point. Theyre in the midst of an investigation of a Terror Network, a horrific bombing that kills 22 people and our media, particularly the new york times, spewing information about it as its going on. Yeah. The Intelligence Leaks are a big problem, and theyre a big problem here, theyre a big problem when youre dealing with something overseas that gets leaked here, and it is a problem that the president , this white house says they are empowering the attorney yen to go after attorney general to go after and to look for where these intel leaks are coming from. This is significant, if you think about it. It is sharing intelligence that potentially affects an investigation that is ongoing currently looking for a network of terrorists behind that manchester attack. Thats something that theresa may, rightfully, is upset about, and the president is acting on it. Charles i agree. I want to ask you about the democrats because theyre slamming this House Republican Health Care Bill after the cbo released their score last night. Listen to what Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer had to say. The report makes clear trumpcare would be a cancer on the American Health care system, causing costs to skyrocket, making coverage unaffordable for those with preexisting conditions and many seniors and kicking millions of their Health Insurance. Unless youre a healthy millionaire, trumpcare is a nightmare. Charles what are you thoughts your thoughts, bret . Hes a good rhymer . [laughter] no, i think he clearly is making the case that democrats are making, theyre using the cbo report. You know the cbo is like a calculator, what you put in, you know, you get out. They do the math. Its not always 100 accurate, especially its not even very accurate at all when it comes to analyzing how many people have insurance and how many dont. This were off by more than 10 million with the obamacare cbo. I think that what the republicans are saying this response, charles, is obamacare is falling apart. It is going to disintegrate. This is better than that, and its not great, but trust us, we are going to, you know, make in this better. The senate, however, is probably going to be looking at a different bill charles yeah. Than the house bill. Charles yeah. So the republicans, first, are going to have the convince maybe the republicans. Right. Charles thank you very much, really appreciate it. See you, charles. Charles a top earthquake expert has a warning for california. He says the big one is overdue and imminent saying people there should start preparing right now. Detail next. And a new study has revealed that the number onety for young people to start a career, well, tell you what, ill let you guess. Think about it and well tell you when we come back, next. Charles and thousand or for some and now for some headlines. New report says houston is the best place to start a business. Take a look at this, a landslide in california bury aring a highway in more than a million tons of rock and cutter, bringing the states highway damage to a record 1 million. California has been pummeled by landslides after having one of its wettest winters this decades. And, well, thats not their only problem. A top geologist there warning californias big one, well, its imminent. Its finally going to happen, saying people should start preparing right now, ashley. Weve heard this before. We have, and thats part of the pblem. Seismologist lucy jones giving a speech, and she was saying, look, you cant see it, its unknown, its unknowable, but its a very real threat. The last major quake on the San Andreas Fault was in 1857. They are overdue. He said the time to start preparing is now. Charles all right, well see. We are learning more now about that u. K. Terror attack. Three members of the bombers family are under arrest. The bomber himself, he fought in libya. Fox news Gregg Jarrett is next. Charles here we go, its 11 30 a. M. Check the big board, look at that, were right on the cusp of