Transcripts For FBC Mornings With Maria Bartiromo 20180102

Antigovernment protests rage in iran this morning is that continues to the present intriguing this report for demonstrations saying in part the great iranian people have been repressed for many years. Time for change. Let change. Let us on the escalating tensions for the country this morning. Investors hoping for a record year in wall street but the markets opening higher after 2017 produced to 25 rally for the dow, s p 500, 25 . Nasdaq up 20 . Features in what we look at in terms of stock market performance. All the major averages in europe right now lower. 5100 down half a percent. Overnight in asia, stocks were higher. Japan closed for a holiday. Majors as you can see trending up. Hang seng in hong kong a few . Holiday travel nightmare. U. S. Customs computers suffered an outage causing long delays in airports across the country. Watch. A huge line. The guy said it would take three hours. We lost our connection. I went to check my bags back here from the First American flight so i can get on the second american flight and nobody seems to know what is going on here. Maria celinda says investigators are searching for cause. The new year brings new problems for samsung. Fresh battery issues are coming up facing users. Well tell you what to expect here. Taylor swift and not shaking off high ticket prices paid by the singer could be faced with a lot of blank space on her upcoming tour. If the new years resolution was to make some more money. Grab a Lottery Ticket. But the fine chap pot for megamillion supposed to get too near the 800 million. All the stories coming up this Tuesday Morning. Fox Business Network dagen mcdowell. Editorial page editor James Freeman envisioned for fun distributors Vice President others in iraq is here. Good to see you. Happy new year, everybody. Great to see you. You deserve a break. We thought it would get quiet after the election last year. Not even close. Tax reform came until the 11th hour until the end of the year. That is going to be a big topic of conversation. This is the first birthday of a new era for american business. We ran it for a while and not competitive tax system and now will stay with the u. S. Economy can do. Maria sure are. Thirdquarter 3 growth. Paris consecutive quarters. A big win for the Trump Administration. Maria this week we got the job numbers. A lot on the table this morning to discuss. Given the conversation from a florida congressman ron desantis is that this big pharma chief of staff under bill clinton and then bacardi associates max mclarty is here. Fox news strategic and news strategic analyst jackie messier as those former Food Network Host and uncle jacks steakhouse owner, will lead the goal. Stay with us. Big broker in the head. Take it off here and that is President Trump sturdiness with the jampacked agenda. Touching down at the white house last night after reading in the new year in palm beach, florida where he reflected on the accomplishment while also looking forward to the future. We will have a great year come a fantastic 28 teams. Off to a very good start with the great tax cut with an warrant getting rid of the individual mandate, which is very unpopular as you know. But we are going to have a tremendous year. The stock market is going to continue to go up. Companies will continue to come into the country and they are doing it now. Soon to be a record for. Maria congress to turn with a hefty todo list included funding the government to avoid a shutdown in addition to welfare reform covert infrastructure come integration set to meet with Republican Leaders this upcoming weekend at camp david. Do a hash of the 2018 republican agenda. Joining us now to weigh in is the editorinchief of the daily collar. Good morning to you. Good to see you, sir. Happy new year. The talk about the agenda. Where do you expect on the agenda in what you expect to get through congress this year . His first week is pretty packed. Tomorrow hes meeting with the National Security team because every single domestic agenda can take a backseat when something goes on with north korea or iran comes ahead. Hes also going to talk about substandard Immigration Reform. Its also going to have one of Donald Trumps 34 year long believes that america will take advantage of. Those will come down on steel, aluminum in this next month. A pretty jampacked agenda and i suspect youll i suspect he would allow for the same with democrats completely unwilling to help them because they see the Midterm Election coming up. He will probably share more with republican deficit hawks with too much trouble for tax reform. Get to these other discussions over daca or infrastructure, massive spending bills coming down. How does this play out . We want but the president wants infrastructure gone. I dont think well see lots done on welfare because of the election this year. Have you guys see it . I would say a lot of pressure on democrats giving resistance in their party to do nothing in this election year. It does seem like an obvious deal on the table where you give the president the law hes been promising and in return you get a more open policy in terms of welcoming people brought here as children or maybe even newcomers. Is it possible that democrats said if you listen to other news channels, which i did by accident when i was driving around because my eardrums were bleeding, but you hear just resistance. They are going to continue to talk down the economy to make people think the tax is not working. I dont believe once i cant increase you can disagree with me if you want the table work with them on infrastructure and daca because they are literally going to run on impeachment could thats totally true. The whole last year, the month after the election they have this moment of clarity. Holy smokes we have not paid enough attention to the working class. How did we lose unions and the democrats have that one month and they went right back to holiest relics, Jeff Sessions with a klansman. Donald trump is hitler. He was on 90. They have a good quote to kick off the new year. Talking about america, russia, resistant signs. Right now if they do anything from the 28th team in term election that looks that they are coming in for a good wind but it will be in spite of themselves that they have to go back to their constituents and say we tried to stop putting a thousand dollars into every american pocket. We oppose the tax cuts to 80 of america because it helped the wealthy. I dont expect that they are going to go anywhere with the president and he is meeting with Stephen Miller for only Jeff Sessions campaign could use meeting to hammer something out on chain migration of human migration. I dont think thats going to be any change in democrats coming together and saying lets hope this president pass something even if they agree with it. Even on infrastructure, duping the natural desire of politicians to spend is so strong that you would get a deal here despite democrats desire to resist . I wouldve suspected that even under president bush. But i do sometimes forget every republican president , remember the tshirts in the tshirts and the attacks that have come under donald trump is a whole another guy in their base is so fired up in so singlemindedly but i they will look at it as democrats could collaborate with him on anything. Its crazy. Even if you find the cure for cancer that democrats may be against it just because of the negative sentiment and how angry they are towards this administration. They are angry and so whether voters. I agree with you. Lets take a look at that. Start with general jack keane coming out. The protests in iran, the president actually weighed and when he saw the people getting america on the side of the American People. This is a Huge Development obviously another things within Foreign Policy we need to get to as well. North korea, et cetera. Hes been really decisive on Foreign Policy. The change years of lacking Foreign Policy with one single move when he had the chinese dictator xi jinping for a series of breaking the treaty over dessert and so this is how its going to be from now on. Would you like seconds . Iran is a strong move in you see rouhani, the elected dictator of iran seem his protesters are going that far. The revolutionary guard controls that country but so far hes admitted to problems in iran. When protesters look up from poland or anywhere else but to the american president document even if they dont necessarily love us its a good sign that shows dagen stands in stark contrast to what president barack obama did not do during one protest in 2009 when he stayed utterly silent on this protest because who is trying to curry favor with the regime to aid the Iran Nuclear Deal potentially. A really quick reversal of basically anything president obama did in iran. Im sure the resistance groups being shut down. They noticed that as well. Dagen absolutely right. China, all of this is the president has been doing. The decisiveness of the message to china having their chocolate cake early in 2015. By the way, president xi. Missiles on their way. This is not like the obama administration. Its a new approach in terms of very more respect, but its been inspiring to see the president speak honestly about the Iranian Regime, hostility to human rights in neighbors and we heard a lot of commentary through this year that this is going to push iranians towards the regime and others say that is not what is happening. At curry favor by the way is for that phrase because you guys read about it a few days ago. The people within iran, they are speaking out against oppression from the regime that they are unhappy with the way money is not being spent within that country and on them improving their own personal financial situations im happy its been spent to fund terrorism. Inflation up 10 in the past year. So this is for economic reasons. Its about more than economic reasons. Maria the money is not going to the people. By the way, we have to play nobody saying this morning to pakistan. No, we are not giving you 33 billion because we see what she do with the money. 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But if youre hoping the windows, good luck. Chances of. 1,888,000,000,000,000,000. You can get zeros on a screen. Maria cheryl, thank you bone chilling record setting for the weather gripping most of the country. Taylor says reputation in jeopardy. Showing the love for the pop Stars Stadium tour. Stay with us. Maria chicagos brutally cold weather through too much of the annual polar plunge unlike michigan. Organizers canceled the event because it was too dangerous. Some did brave the cold and jump in anyway. The cold weather shattering records across the country. Feeling a busy week of this morning. Janice dean has the details. Any relief coming . Know, the mid part of january definitely with another arctic plunge. We have a little bit of moderation tomorrow and into wednesday dealing with block buster storm. Further in time, still dealing with a very cold arctic air even as we head into the latter part of january. It really is dangerous. Across several states, minus 23 is what it feels like. Minus 27 in fargo. Two thirds of the country into one show advisories as far as florida. Some cases they have it a nowin show in several years that parts of florida. The real polders across the Northern Plains were feels like minus 41 in aberdeen. Maria, another thing we are talking about with a potential blockbuster storm for the east coast this week. Happening on thursday the forecast models have most of the storm remaining offshore. However, 100 miles to the list of potential blizzard for the i95 corridor. Eastern canada and no doubt stopped at new england but we have to really watch for all of the big cities along the east coast. Do it with a potential for ice as well from florida towards the southeast. Again, monitoring closely the difference between a couple of inches to a couple of feet. Back to you. Maria i dont know if you caught any of the new years eve celebrations. I was watching tv and its hilarious to to me that people are also happy. 16 degrees and it feels like negative three but here we are. Still 2 Million People showed up and we are in this little pins like cattle. You have to stand hot spot. Eight hours. From 4 00 p. M. Until midnight. Even when its warm. Someone is willing to stand out there. I will walk through on it all me spring day. Mariah carey did very well. She had a lively performance and for when she nailed it although she did ask for a high tea but that is better than walking onstage like she did the prior year. Maria a lot of people were talking about that. Dagen there you go. We came close to it. You came closer than i did. Train to a new day amounts to talk about. Weve got a lot on the top day. A call for unity in iran is the death toll is rising this morning. Violent antigovernment protests are continuing. The very latest as the president has weighed in. Not just you. 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My visitors should be the ones i want to see. Maria welcome back, good Tuesday Morning, thank you so much for joining us. Happy new year, tuesday january 2nd, 2018, top stories right now 6 30 a. M. On the east coast. Time for change. President trump voicing his support this morning for the people of iran as thousands of people take to the streets in a slew of antifederal government protests in the country. Nine people including a child have reportedly died as regime cracks down on demonstrations, senator Lindsey Graham weighed in on escalating tension. If i were trump, i would do the exact opposite of obama. The deal with iran hasnt worked. The money didnt go to benefit the people, the iranian people are not our enemy. The iatola is the enemy of the world. Maria investors hoping for new year. 25 rally in 2017. Dow industrials, nasdaq all higher by a fraction this morning. In europe different story. Ftse down 1 and a half and 1. And in asia overnight, mixed market, mostly to the upside, japan was closed for holiday but the shanghai in china up one and a quarter percent and honing copping up 2 . Bitcoin stumbling as it struggles to kick off 2018, down 13,566 on bitcoin. Worse than ever before. Telemarketers targeted your phone, ringing may not stop this year either, we have the details on what to do. Skyhigh ticket prices that are keeping fans away. All the stories coming up this morning. Top story this half an hour. Eyes of the world are looking to iran as antigovernment protests are continuing this morning, nine people including a child reportedly died overnight as protests intensify. President trump took to twitter to criticize the government and leadership there and the Obama Nuclear deal, he said this, iran is failing at every level, despite the deal made by obama administration, the great iranian people have been repressed for many years, they are hungry for food and for freedom, along with human rights, the wealth of iran is being looted, time for change. Joining me right now fox news strategic analyst general jack keane, general, good to see you this morning, happy new year. Glad to be here. Maria whats your reaction to whats taking place in iran . First of all, im glad pushing back on this regime. We know its one of the most repressive places on the planet probably next to north korea and listen, we forecasted that when the wind fall of sanctions money was return today iranians that it would not fall into the ahands of the people, it would fall into the hands of proxies and they are using that money to fight the war on sir way the proxies with hezbollah and fight the war in yemen with the huities, thats where the majority of that money is going and thats why people are frustrated, their life has not improved. Maria i think you made the great point, the president has gotten flagged the way hes tweeted about this rather than concrete plan, Lindsey Graham was on face the nation, i want to get your reaction, general. President trump is tweeting very sympathetically to iranian people but you just cant tweet here, you have to lay out a plan and if i were President Trump i would lay out a plan onto engage the regime. Maria do you agree with that, general . Lets talk about president obama and what we saw back in 2009 and President Trump and the way hes been approaching this, what would you like to see from the president that you havent seen already . Well, first of all, the contrast between obama and the summer of 2009 and President Trump is really stark, certainly one of the most embarrassing things ive ever witnessed as american citizen when we were silent and Million People plus were in the streets demonstrating and finally start today clear the streets and we absolutely said nothing, how morally bankrupt were at the time not to stand morally behind iranians much like reagan stood behind the polish. The comprehensive strategy that the administration has taken and we are doing so different than the obama administration, we are going stand up in aggressive behavior with allies, we have to start with syria because iran is building a land bridge through iran, through iraq, through syria and lebanon to be able to move missiles and rockets to hezbollah and encroach on israel and jordan. That is all coming. Dangerous and evolving situation. We have to start to implement a strategy pushing back on iranian, much more so than rhetoric. Maria how do you push back, this morning we are talking a bit about pakistan as well. Country has summoned un ambassador in which shes accusing pakistan of lied and deceit towards the u. S. The United States has given pakistan more than 33 billion in aid over in 15 years, they have given us nothing but lies and deceit thinking of leaders as fools, we hunt in afghanistan with little help, no more. So general, this is how this president is approaching pakistan, how do you want to see him approach iran . What is that plan and, of course, whats your retooks what hes telling pakistan right here . Yeah, well, first of all with sunni arab we should be trying to contain so they are not able to put in place the bridge that they so desperately want. When it comes to pakistan, so viewers can understand, in pakistan the taliban, Afghan Taliban has two safe havens that they have been operating in pakistan ever since the down downfall, they provide them intelligence on our operation that is we are conducting inside of afghanistan, they provide them with training and significant amount of resource. Its not enough to talk about what theyre doing and to hold the aid, what they will do, they will make up that money from the chinese, easily, what we really need to do with the pakistanis is we need to sanction the chief of staff of army and the chief of their Intelligence Service and deny them International Travel and responsible for deaths of civilians and certainly deaths of american soldiers. They hold over our head, maria, the fact that all of the supply that is we provide to our troops comes through tack pakistan, theyll shut it down, let them shut it down, we will have to come through europe. But we should not be intimidated or threatened by them. We have to stand up to the pakistanis, theres no way that this war can end favorably to the Afghan People and to the United States as long as those sanctuaries are in pakistan. Thats the reality of it. Maria so you like this tack that hes taking in terms of pushing back on the 33 billion giving aid to pakistan when we know where theyre using the money . Its a start but its not going to be enough as i said because theyll make up for that. Its a start. We are pushing back. Previous administrations have never taken a tough road with the pakistanis and we have to call them out for what they are doing. Maria i want to get your take on isis, let me turn to north korea first. This is a surprise. North korea issuing a new threat, the entire u. S. Mainland was within the countrys Nuclear Strike range, that the Nuclear Button is on his desk. How seriously should the International Community take the latest threat and what about the idea that its opening up a window to talk about the olympics with south korea . As director pompeo said, north korea in terms of developing reentry vehicle, thats Ballistic Missile capable of reentering the earths atmosphere and miniaturizing and its months away not years away which tells me in 2018 is likely based on a director of the cia that its likely to be a showdown year for the United States and north korea and certainly china and we are heading clearly in that direction. Fact that the North Koreans want to have some discussions, i think thats good, they should be conditioned base, remember, the North Koreans have always negotiated with American Leadership and in doing so, they have always traded time on their side in doing it. In other words, they deceive us and they are able to develop advanced capabilities, thats been a ploy of theirs. That doesnt mean that we shouldnt sit down to talk to them but we should have conditions for that talk. Maria theres a lot of conversation about isis really getting defeated, not 100 obviously but really getting defeated in a significant way, to what do you attribute that, general, obviously here too you have a much different approach from President Trump versus president obama . Yes, president obama would never let his commanders do what they wanted to do with isis and the fact that he permitted isis to exist from the invasion in january until just last year, under the obama administration, i think was a strategic blunder on obamas part. It helped isis become an iconic worldwide brand, it was visibility that enabled them to expand to 30 countries, attack nato 40 different times either directed, supported or at least inspired attacks by people killing their own citizens. This never should have happened, the sanctuary in syria should have been crushed in 2014, 2015 at the latest, it took obama 15 months before he ever fired a round at the Syrian Oil Fields that isis was using as their major funding source, 15 months before we ever did anything about it, nine months before he ever fired a shot in anger to help the iraqis after they asked for assistance. Trump came in and reset the table and began to crush isis in sanctuary and take the territory back. Maria you have to believe that a lot of actions are resinating in china, general, because we need the chinese to push back on north korea and i think this president understands the threat that he is facing when faced with the north korean regime, so whether its, you know, shooting missiles to syria while hes having dinner with the president of china or taking this hard stance against pakistan or any of the hard choices that have taken place, hes also sending messages to china, isnt he . Oh, yeah, absolutely. National Security Strategy goes right after it. They define pped as longterm strategic threat to the pacific and globally. China clearly wants to replace the United States as the preeminent global power in the world and theyve given enormous authority and consolidation of of power to president xi, they do not agree with the International Order as we currently know it. The same thing with the russians, this is all about a return to big power competition, we are on a collision course with china to be sure n. The meantime, certainly President Trump recognize that is he needs chinas cooperation to shut down the North Koreans to be sure. Maria right, exactly. Thanks so much. Good talking to you, maria. Maria jack keane, always a pleasure. We will see you soon, sir. Not so happy good year for bitcoin, struggling in the dawn of 2018, i will give you the update there. The last jedi Demolishes Box Office records for the entire year with three weeks in theaters, all that coming up back here its time for sleep numbers lowest prices of the season on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. Does your bed do that . Right now our queen c4 mattress is only 1199, save 400. Ends soon. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. Maria welcome back, the momentum continues with stocks, take a look at futures indicating another gain at the opening of trading, up 25 , dow and nasdaq last year, this morning we are expecting 30 points in dow industrials. We are taking a look at a couple names on the move. Bitcoin began the new year by extending its slide from the december 18th record of 19,511. So the slide continues this morning. Meanwhile apple going the distance, Technology Giant filed a patent that will allow customers to charge the phone from across the room. Operate on a system that powers multiple devices using wire and wireless connections, apple shares 169 and change up in premarket. Bridgewater associates executive and family are among the ten americans killed in sundays costa rica plane crash, Cheryl Casone with if details this morning, cheryl. Cheryl yeah, morning, bridgewaters founder said in a statement bruce and wife irene and three sons were killed in plane crash, the youngers matthew and oldest, there were no survivors, costa rican investigators are looking into what caused the plane to go down strong winds is a possibility, theyre still investigating the crash today. Fife other americans and two costa rican members were also killed. Complaints about robo calls jumped sharply last year, the federal trade commission it received 4. 5 million robo calls complaint, in 2016 there were 3. 4 million complaints, experts say that the robo calls are getting more and more because of cheap access to Internet Calling Services and auto dialing technology. Well, major trouble for taylor shift, pop stars reputation tour is being disaster, they are upset over highticket prices charged for tour. One person claiming one seat is costing her 500 and thats not all according to ticketmaster website, the tour kicks off in may has yet to produced a single sellout, arena show, we should also. 2017 ended on high note for star wars the last jedi as it claimed the number one spot of the box office of the year, the film earned 68 million, domestic total of 533 million and that makes it the highest grossing film of last year, in fact, a banner year for disney because they also claimed the second and the third spots if. The year, beauty and the beast as well as guardians of the galaxy. Cant go wrong with star wars, maria, as i always say. Anybody saw star wars . No, my brother with massive hordes of collectibles did not like the plot. Maria what . Dagen star wars and bitcoin, thats all we talk. We had a twohour discussion on bitcoin. Maria where are you on that . Hes a technologist, so not speculator, i will leave it at that. Hes waiting have not seen it. Dagen the air is coming out of the balloon. Ripple is the new crypto currency of the moment. Are you buying . I think its interesting technologies, i dont really understand how you can Value Bitcoin at 13,000. It was supposed to be an expensive way for people to [laughter] dagen wait until Central Banks come along and develop crypto currency. Maria interesting. Artificial intelligence coming to bathroom scale, get this, no numbers to tell you your weight, we will tell you how it transforms to health plan, back in a minute. Is this a phone . Or a little internet machine . It makes you wonder shouldnt we get our phones and internet from the same company . Thats why Xfinity Mobile comes with your internet. You get up to 5 lines of talk and text at no extra cost. So all you pay for is data. See how much you can save. Choose by the gig or unlimited. Xfinity mobile. A new kind of network designed to save you money. Call, visit, or go to xfinitymobile. Com. Maria welcome back, markets are kicking off the year positive, take a look, first trading day of the new year, we have the markets expected to be up in dow industrials, s p is up 5 and nasdaq up about 7, lets talk about expectations, dagen, we had a record year in 2017, 25 higher on the dow, expectations for this market in 18 . All of the analyst who is were looking at this market see more gains in the month ahead and the year ahead. I will point to wall street journal, there are theres room for the editorial page theres room for missteps in two of the three, one is geopolitical risks, trump does something on trade thats a major misstep and then Federal Reserve and i will point to the article in the paper today in cities with low unemployment wages finally start to get bigger. Maria 18 states. Dagen i think that inflation is going to be a concern, could be a headwind and particularly if the Federal Reserve hikes Interest Rates too fast. Maria and then theres the agendas, james, earnings have benefited from rollback of regulation and anticipation of tax reform, now we will actually see what the tax plan does for earnings. Thats right, we will get the policy not just the expectations now and theres a lot of reason for optimism about the u. S. Economy, the World Economy as youve noted. Youve got asia and europe looking strong. In europe they are talking about taking away the central bank stimulus, this is really encouraging to have Economic Growth happening not through sort of government tinkering but through real people in the private economy making investment and a lot of good news in the u. S. , manufacturing, you talk about the growth, i think its hard not to be optimistic about the u. S. Economy right now. Dagen you were referencing the hikes and minimum wages, i was talking about National Wage inflation, people are starting to see real increases in their paychecks which is healthy. Maria that will be the conversation at the fed, thats for sure. We have tight labor supplies, i would think that puts upward pressure, that would be important and to james point, we are no longer hooked on this monetary morphine from the fed. Thats all we talked about or at least a lot of what i talked about for the past three years, what is the fed doing. Now its what is the white house doing, what is President Trumps economic agenda, low that drive the markets and thats whats really important right now. Dagen maria is going to laugh at me, i think the last jobs report when we were on the show, its too hot, we are asking questions now, how hot is too hot, what if the fed makes a mistake and it is astonishing. Maria the tax plan, i was surprised at the rate of repatriation, does the money come back with the 15 repatriation rate . You wonder. Well, since they basically get taxed regardless, i think a lot of it will come back, we will see. We are not running the experiment, theres no barrier to bringing that back and investing in the United States. Maria all right, when we come back, 18 states hiking the minimum tbhaij the new year, we break down what that means for businesses, large and small next hour in mornings with maria, back in a mint on the first trading day of the new year. Maria welcome back, good Tuesday Morning, everybody, thanks so much for joining us. Happy new year, im Maria Bartiromo and it is tuesday january 2nd, 2018, top stories right now 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. The new year means new money for many workers across the country. A minimum wage increase has gone into effect in 18 states including florida and newark, we break down the Major Economic impact coming up this morning. Workers may want to put some of that money into stocks in hoping for another record year on wall street. Futures indicating the new year kicks off with a gain, dow industrials up 30 points this morning, s p and the nasdaq also looking higher. In europe arrows down, the cac quarante in paris and dax index in germany also down three quarters of 1 apiece. Japan is closed for holiday but the hang seng in hong kong was the leadership on the upside 2 . The eyes of the world are looking to iran as antigovernment protests are raging on this morning. Nine people including a child have reportedly died overnight. President trump tweeted support for people. Israel lyrics israeli prime minister. They see the basic liberties denied to them for decades. I wish the iranian people success in noble quest for freedom. Maria the latest on the escalating tensions. New questions regarding Hillary Clintons top aide huma abedin. Those emails may have been compromised during yahoos massive hack. Major changes coming to golden state as california legalizes marijuana, first sanctuary city, the outrage coming up this morning. Why ply boy said to be considering ending the iconic magazine. Dagen mcdowell, James Freeman and vision 4 fund distributers heather zimeraga is here. Happy new year. Dagen happy new year. Maria lots to talk about. Dagen i will just say out loud after accidentally listening to some left leftstream media when im driving around the south over the holidays, number one, stop talking down the economy because it doesnt resinate with the American People, people want to feel better, i think thats our baseline of looking ahead, looking toward prosperity and if thats the democrats talking point for the midterms, they will lose, number one, stop having political strategists analyze the mental state of President Trump. Maria they call them doctors. Dagen i heard political strategists said that he had the beginnings of dementia and they chuckle at it but serious. I just think again, think about the individuals in this country from that dont live in new york and los angeles. Maria nobody employees them anymore, dagen. Dagen no, they dont. Resolutions for people to not host panel of nondoctors to diagnosis the president s mental health. I think that would be a bit of media hygiene to get rid of any fake news to just say we are not going to do medical diagnoses Long Distance with nondoctors. Dagen in the south we call it they need a deep in the flea. Maria Foreign Policy is where it hasnt been in years, our enemies are afraid, so much so that north korea is saying to south korea, yeah, lets talk. Dagen up rising in iran. Maria isis is being defeated. We will take that mental state any day. Maria i think so. Inspiring to see the president as you said saying what im sure a lot of people around world want to hear from the u. S. President which is we are with you. Maria lets get to top story right now, 18 states including florida have hiked the minimum wage. Lowest wage workers will now see a 15cent increase in paychecks at 8. 25 cents, joining us now House Freedom caucus member, National Subcommittee chairman and congressman ron desantis from florida, thank you so much to see you. Happy new year. Maria lets talk about wage increases, what kind of impact youre expecting that to have . In florida thats part of an initiative that was added to the state constitution many years ago, so it provides for the periodic increases so its something that businesses have known about for a long time and i think have been able to price it in. The economy in florida has done very well, our governor rick scott has done a great job throughout most of his term. He was fighting a lot of federal head winds but managed to make florida a place where people want to do business, now that we have better federal policy, i think we have opportunities to do a lot of goods things in florida. Maria great. Lets talk more about the economy here, great things in florida, the agenda from the Trump Administration obviously had taxed reform front and center, how does that play out, what are you expecting in terms of the impact now that the president has signed that legislation into law . I dont think theres any way you can look at that bill and say that whatever we would have grown at absent it, we are going to do better under this bill than under the previous status status quo, we have technically been out of recession for a pretty long time and i dont think you can repeal the business cycle. If you look at some of the confidence and sentiment that you see out there from a lot of Small Business people, they feel like they have an opportunity to succeed in a way that they didnt under the previous than the previous administration. Now this is truly the beginning of an expansion and i think if we are grown at 3 plus percent. You will see a lot of opportunity for a lot of people. Maria sure is. We have the jobs number at the end of the week and we are going to identify where the jobs are right now. I want to swift gears, now we know 20 people are dead after days of antigovernment protests across the country. Here is how former president obama chose to deal with the number one state sponsor of terrorism while he was in office . Its up to iranians to make decisions about who irans leaders will be, that we respect iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of iran. Maria he we wanted to respect iranian sovereignty, he was obviously doing a deal with the iranians for that nuclear deal, this president , President Trump is choosing a different approach. The white house is threatening fresh sanctions against tehran right now if the government forcibly cracks down on demonstrations, congressman whra do you make of all of this . We have to follow President Trumps lead on this. We have to stand with demonstrate nester iran. They are fighting against what, i think, is illegitimate government. Islamist tyranny and by the way, has a lot of american blood on and they were behind with hezbollah. If you look at when i was in iraq, we had as many as 1500 Service Members killed dye deadly efp, funded by iran through shiite malacia and the u. S. Should be on the side of the angels, the people who are out there fighting for freedom are brave, we have to back them, im willing to do whatever would work to help facilitate the effort but if they would be successful in toppling this regime, that could probably be the single best thing you can have for Peaceful World in the foreseeable future. All of a sudden, all the damage that was done with the Iran Nuclear Agreement and the worry that they were on the cusp and i believe they are actively pursuing Nuclear Weapons and i was also very concerned and still concerned that north korea could provide them with Nuclear Weapons, if the regime tumbles, the iranian people are very prowestern, they have a proud culture and doesnt deserve to be suffocated under this sh aria totalitarian state. Maria whether you look at middle east, asia, north korea, theres the investigations here at home, i want to get your take on whats going on in terms of the democrat collusion, the massive hack attack on yahoo could have compromised Sensitive State Department information, we know now that Hillary Clintons former top aide huma abedin reportedly forwarded state passwords, sent passwords to personal yahoo account. This is according to daily caller, we know that yahoo was hacked. Everybody using yahoo was hacked, could there be repercussion that is huma forwarded passwords to yahoo account, not the mention sensitive topsecret files to Anthony Weiners husband who is now sitting in jail. In normal cases there would be repercussions. Thats been problems with the whole clinton matter, you see things happening and the fbi and the Justice Department treated it differently than they would almost any other time. Theres going to be a big ig report coming out, im not sure it would be as strong as i would like to see but clearly there were problems with this. Remember peter struk, the fbi agent that says you need insurance policy to prevent in case donald trump got elected, changed language in comeys statement, he was responsible in part for dumbing down the fbis judgment that it was almost assured that hillarys email had been intercepted by Foreign Government because it didnt have the protection and any hacker worth their salt would get it. He dumbed that down, well, we dont know whether anything happened. I think from the very beginning of this, all those warning signs were there and normally people would be held accountable but no one has been held accountable yet. Maria congressman, i find the story stunning and i imagine this is going to be biggest stories of 2018, you mentioned fbi agent peter stock who wanted an insurance policy if donald trump got investigated, was that after investigation of donald trump, is that the insurance policy . And secondly lets not forget andrew mccabe, top fbi guy, his wife got 700,000 when she was trying to run for a local office and then theres bruce ohr, he was number three guy in the department of justice, his wife worked for fusion gps who created the dossier who the democrats and the Hillary Clinton Campaign Paid for. This is just mindbogglingly. How many people at top levels of department of justice and fbi were complicit against donald trump and favoring and protecting Hillary Clinton . And bruce ohr, he had a meeting during the campaign with christopher steel, the guy that was contracted by fusion gps to create this discredited dossier against donald trump and he since has been demoted but i have to tell you, maria, its been frustrating not getting the full story on all this. I asked rod ros stien under oath whats the deal with ohr, you demoted him, was that the reason why. He said, theres investigations going on, the ig will determine all this, they hide behind ig, they hide behind its classified. Its funny, the stuff classified, it doesnt prevent leaking from the new york post, they will not answer questions under oath. So i think this whole thing really stinks, we need all the answers and theres so many things we dont know. Remember, we have a couple hundred text messages, there were 10,000 that the ig got. Why did we only get those . Whats in all the other ones, the others arent just loveydovy stuff. We dont have all the information there. We dont have all the information about bruce ohr and the fbi still would not answer questions and the Justice Department wont about how they used the dossier, did they use it to get surveillance on trump associates. Maria thats the thing. What are you going to do about it . Your committee is asking for information from the fbi and theyre stonewalling you, what are you going to do . Devin nunes sent a tough letter to deputy ag over the holidays and said january 3rd is the deadline, comply or else we will move forward. I think we will move forward with some type of contempt in congress. The American People deserve answers on this but a larger test of congress. Maria right. You need to have effective oversight and for so long its been if he canless. Give it to us. Its not the way it works, these are Critical Issues and they need to be given to the congress. Maria all right, we will watch that, the deadline is tomorrow. We will see if theres a contempt of Congress Ruling and an investigation to follow. Congressman, good to see you, sir, we will be watching. Thank you so much, congressman desantis there. We want to gate the news out quick, President Trump is tweeting on iran. People of iran are finally acting against regime, all the money that president obama foolishly gave them went to terrorism and their pockets, the people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The u. S. Is watching. The president just tweeted out this morning, we will be right back, lots to come right here. Stay with us numbers lowest prices of the season on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. And snoring . Does your bed do that . Its the lowest prices of the season on the queen c4 mattress with adjustable comfort on both sides. Now only 1199, save 400. Ends soon. Visit sleepnumber. Com for a store near you. I was wondering if an electric toothbrusthan a manual. 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Maria what do you attribute this move to around thanksgiving going into year end, we are talking about 50 and that was the high end but we see all of the unrest in the middle east, how much do you attribute this move to whats going on in the the middle east and what about oil demand in 20112348. Well, right, first and foremost with the middle east, we are certainly starting off and this is a known black swan, maria, as i tell leaders in daily report, the sunni side of opec, that is saudi arabia, of course, and shiite side in iran and with the unrest over the weekend in iran, youre setting the table for geopolitical risks to be priced into the market. I want to be clear and everyone should realize this, that the bets are in on wall street so thats to say bullish speculators in the paper market have never been more bullish, they are Holding Record betting on higher oil prices, conversely, players in the real market actually, the producer, the guy who takes out oil out of the ground and sells it, theyve never been shorter this market. Theyre sold a lot of production Going Forward going into the new year. Let the dice role. The guys who actually produce the oil are really set to hedge and produce more barrels. We are looking at record production in the new year coming out of the United States and increase 5 to 6, maybe 700,000barrels a day to new record and we also got news two weeks ago saudi arabia, they are in the process of transitioning to national gas dependent economy, what that means, maria, powered internal generation needs, they burn a lot of crude oil each year to keep those airconditioners running. They are switching over to natural gas. What does that mean, maria . More crude available to sell to export market. We are looking at tremendous amount of supply coming into the market. When you asked about demand, demand is certainly going to be strong this year, we are looking at a complete rebound in the metal complex which tells me that the industrial side is back and that supporting all commodities. Maria thats good news for Economic Growth, isnt it, heather . Has been a counterbalanced to the price of crude, do you see that continuing or will that be a headwind . Right now thats certainly going to be a gamechanger going into the new year, we are starting to see a very large increase in the rig counts in permian basin. Those rigs are coming back and when we look at the producer and the way theyve sold this market, they are certainly expecting a significant rise in production this year. Now, lets also keep in mind that the United States is become becoming crudeoil exporting country. We will be exporting low sulfur, highvalue crude oil and replacing with crude import, lowervalue crude oil, heavier crude oil and continue to export cavear and thats a winwin for the industry and winwin for the economy. Dagen we are the number one exporter of the refined product, but, steven, is it possible that we actually ramp up production in the United States even more than expectations because its already expected that we are going to hit record daily production here . You said 700barrels a day. Could it be north of that . That could put, bring prices back down to earth so to speak. Well, you know, yes, i appreciate that. Lets keep in mind that 50, 55, 60dollar oil compared to where we were just 15 years ago still handsome price, this is the price that many, myself included believe that the producer can make more money or can make money, excuse me but can production be ramped up even higher, im skeptical of that. I think to keep the industry comfortable, they are going to want to see oil above 50 of barrel be the middle eastern producer or the United States producer. We have the issue of credit line, of course, with the amount of debt issued in the space. They will continue to produce, but anything above and beyond expectations i am skeptical will occur this year. Steve, James Freeman with the wall street journal. We keep hearing about the frackers getting more efficient. In that permian, arent they able to produce some of them for much less than 50 to 55 . Oh, absolutely. Estimate that is in some of the basins theres money to be made at 20 to 35dollar crude oil. So certainly the potential to bring to the market n. The greater scheme of things, frackers are becoming more efficient, if we are going to take a median number of where they are comfortable, my clients, some of the biggest producers out there, theyre going to be more comfortable and theyre happier in the 5055dollar range. Those are the big boys in the room and the market will tend to listen to them. Maria all right, we will leave it there. Steven, great to have you on the program, thanks so much. Great to be back, maria. Maria steven shork, then the doctor is in, steakhouse owner in the studio, latest opening. Back in a minute right here. Alerts wouldnt you like one from the market when it might be time to buy or sell . With fidelitys realtime analytics, youll get clear, actionable alerts about potential Investment Opportunities in real time. Fidelity. Open an account today. Mary welcome back, happy tuesday thanks so much for joining us. Im Maria Bartiromo happy new year it is tuesday january 2 your top stories right now 7 30 a. M. On the east coast. A new year bringing bigger which he can see to millions of americans as the minimum wage picks up in 18 tates the bottom lines for Small Business across the country coming up, investors hoping for a record year for stock prices futures indicating we are opening this year, on a strong note dow industrials right now highs of the morning up 355 points nasdaq s p 500 also higher, nasdaq up 28 in 2017 dow industrials up 25 in the last year, about in europe this morning, different story because the euro is rising as the euro goes up, stocks are going down. Ft 100 down a half percent cac quarante down twothirds of a percent dax down unthree quarters one percent this morning asia overnight stocks higher with exception of japan it was closed for a holiday shanghai composite up one and a quarter pr cent hang seng in hong kong up 2 germany kicked off new year a strike onion line hate speech law the hefty fines that social media giants like facebook and twitter could now face for failing to remove fending posts offending posts in 24 hours coming up, netflix a sandbar the lengthy from new years revelers in new zealand to evade a kinking ban on holidays made their island a rose bowl for the record books georgia bulldogs to the title gaming after defeating oklahoma in double overtime. Watch. And up of turn running all the way gets to the edge [cheers and applause] all highlights coming up this morning, plus a new years supermoon nasa calling the biggest the brightest of the entire year did you miss it . This is from my car. Take not that one, we will show you one from the car in a minute weve got stunning pictures of the surl moon last night it was pretty hot and pretty cool, actually. All at the same time, first top story half an hour right now small biggest in america, joining me right now is the doctor owner of uncle jacks steakhouse meat house in new york as business own we want your take what is zpog on in the world today good to see you. Thank you so much for joinings you brought all goodies, wow. That steak how good was this thank you so much for joining us, first talk about minimum wage. Minimum wage up in 18 states, this year. Steaks and states minimum wage up does that hurt business for you what is the being night is crushed us so not just this year, it has been minimum wage increases three to four years on Restaurant Industry we employ a lot of people takes lot of people to perform our show. So it is basically, crushing our taking profits they are centerpiecing what are you going to do about it. I am thinking about coming up with a set date i have retains a 15 gt gratuity front hat go many increases customer can understand not taking more tipping the staff less, being that they are getting so many raise increases. You are saying something has to give if you are going to be forced to pay your employees more, because minimum wage going up that is the law, something has to given the money has to come from somewhere you will raise prices. Cuomo was never in Restaurant Business too bad his family didnt come from a pizzeria business he would understand a little bit. Andrew cuomo is in Restaurant Business. Correct. Maybe, maybe even likes business a hater on it because every move he makes killing us. Right . So he is looking even do away with the fronted of the house tip wants to move them to 15 as well. Then you have the family leave act so much administrative work has been put on the Small Business, today, in this city you need a full time lawyer full time Human Resource payroll companies, you need Administration People fees across the board, all the Different Services we offer people open tables different apps, wifi all costing money. Of course,. Credit card processing fees up to 3. 5 how are things going, i mean are things better. Busy, it is busy, we are serving people, the American Grill the meet house concept, i reinvented steakhouse you can put your meat on. Uncle jacks meat house newest restaurant you brought goodies tell us about new restaurant what how are you going to set yours apart with challenges coming in. I looked at how high end Dining Experience a lot of restaurants closing, the Younger Generation pushing industry i came up with american bar and grill i made it looked like old meat factory warehouse so it is hip and cool, meat game on any when way. Meat game on. Burger kum brisket short rib down five way steak different meat choice steaks prime dry many aging, raggu mac n cheese on this. Five cheese mack this is a corn broulet ladies ordered twoed on three every table. Coconut cream pie, this is a Maple Hickory smoked bacon lobster tacos. You have big smoke house burger. What is difference between of these two steaks. That is a cowboy chop a choice chop shoulder bone the prime dry aged 35 day chop. Then here we have a signature dish a spin on old biography wellington we call it willing ton i putted my spin on it an 8 ounce filet wrapped with puff pastry truffles mushrooms nice. The american favorite, grilled burger about fries. Pulled pork coleslaw on it nice fries we do pickling jars everything farm to table a chef driven atmosphere, so big slices. What you got sea salt. I just opened, maria everybody got a gift of my special secret seasoning one for you one for person here cooking every day, so that is a mixture three different salts fresh pepper i use could cher, sea salt flakey himalayan pink. Everybody is cheenganging people trying to have refreshing new start how are you dealing with the vegan creates a, everybo , craze haven changes now that stores are going vegan. If you want to get meat thing on you want that iron love meat that is what you do vegan. Not affecting me because. Not going to change who you are. I cant if you are vegan come to uncle jacks we have things for you i really dont want you want to tell a vegan take a walk, dont come really, if i went to a Vegan Restaurant ordered a where you aring would throw me out when you think world should change because your diet changed i am not reinventing steakhouse. Recalled would not changing because you are changing the meat house is more than a year because of new york city regulation. Almost 16 months. Wow, what the heck happened . You couldnt open because of red tape. Yes, today, to open a new restaurant, that was never a restaurant before, there is all new regulations, and energy codes, so you have to hire a team you have to have an Energy Analysis team inspector, mechanical electrical plumbing engineers, amount of agencies, i had to tape together get them to communicate, were about 10 to 12 different agencies, so the process of dealing with the city, no one is in a rush. They are going to go through their day. Going by sweet time. They dont care willy i got a sense of urgency i need to by 65 people invested almost three Million Dollars in economy by hiring all different people take this vision, of the meat house in a story to life nobody else really give a a [bleep]. Whoa, let me ask you this is this is this is one of the reasons President Trump rolled back all regulations, because it took for a ever to build a bridge took forever to fix the streets same thing on a smaller scale that you are dealing with. What i have seen i build houses in the hamptons, i am a builder project deguy get it done my personality not about excuses i watched every won adapt whole level of the city and small town in villages everybody being new employer their job is to create jobs, by taxation, and regulation, and fee. Yep. This is a hurting us i believe the private sector someone like me should be inspired and he motivated for me to by more people. Willy incredibly fantastic when you grill a steak do you marinate it first what is your marin id. We dont marinate we hand massage it steak doctor rub in infrared broilers we dry age meet or wrap it or about ourupon smoke it will enhance flavor mariniteing meat is for cheaper type of meeth meat. What is best meat for a delicious steak. Everybody has different choices i am a new york strip prime new york strip cut center, some love the rib. Cheryl some love the filet, so me, i say look at your marbling meat is expensive today, so be smart, go to your local butcher to supermarket look for marbling that goes sideways pick best marble stable be picky go through the process, educate yourself see how favor works. Check marbling, meat prices keep going up. I think we are at a maximum but if they want to put this tax on meat because of the gas coming out instead of putting a tube in there recycling it had that is crazy. Steak doctor, great to see you. Thank you so much a pleasure to have you an island of their own hilarious way new zealands attempted to avoid aub a public drinking man first super moon of 2018 more breathtaking photos coming up right here back in a minute. You owned your car for four years. You named it brad. You loved brad. And then you totaled him. 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Dagen i have gone driving east i78 from pennsylvania into new jersey like coming up towards Newark Airport and saw the moon i was like wow that is crazy new years eve decoration Governor Cuomo put up. It was beautiful. I dont know how to follow the steak doctor. [laughter] that was segment of the year. He was good, yeah, that was like good steak. Yee i am ready to try it. We will break with we come back a rose bowl for the ages break down recordbreaking game between georgia oklahoma did you catch it we got highlights, back in a minute. Whoooo. When it comes to travel, i sweat the details. Late checkout. Downalternative pillows. And of course, price. Tripadvisor helps you book a. Hotel without breaking a sweat. Because we now instantly. Search over 200 booking sites. To find you the lowest price. On the hotel you want. Dont sweat your booking. Tripadvisor. The latest reviews. The lowest prices. 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Not the Security Exchange commission but southeastern athletic conference two teams from a sec, Football National title never before College Football game in playoffs got overtime till yesterday double ot at rose bowl, oklahoma looking to break the type at 48, but kick partially blocked think offed ranked bulldogs run into National Championship game sony michel 27 yards for the score, georgia back from 14 down to beat oklahoma 5448, 104th rose bowl highest scoring who will gave play alabama crimson tide, defense against clemson scored 14 points over 13 seconds, 308 pound offensive tackle rumbling 21 yards stealing from where kelly bryant, watch this, into the game on offense, not to block, but to play the roll will have wide releasever krims ton tied will play for fifth national tightly favored by four to battle georgia in atlanta play for first National Title sings walker was a freshman in 1980, day after nfl regular season a black monday traditional with several head coaches get fired, yesterday, silver and black monday, new head coach looks like coming from silt veer and black expected to hire so you know gruden to replace del rio chicago, by the way,s after lastplace finish fired the head of coach also another coaching change, nfl, jim caldwell head coach detroitlines bruce arian 65 years old announced retirement from coaching black monday nfl. All time winningest. With cardinals alltime leader talk may be about broadcasting, 32 teams need head coachings. Why. Traditionally. The teams dont that is why, you know really uneven regular season it was just it was a lot of sloppy play out there but i am a little late on this, how about them bills . How about them bills. That is so cool. And bills fans Buffalo Bills fans have been they have created now over 57,000 dollars in donations toward the charity of bangles quarterback dalton why . I know why. Because they needed bengals to win got it done. Now over57,000 donations from the bills fans. How about university of Central Florida . 13 and 0, not in College Playoffs just beat one of these bullies from sec in a game, kind of throwing the question new playoff system. Well i dont know if about playoff system think College Basketball for years gonzaga would be 15, 16 seed in tournament midmajor averages start getting bigger now an opportunity to become major schools Central Florida did not get a slot to play in one of these big bowl games the biggest of the big, because of the conference they are in but beat auburn, they can play with big boys. There are nebraska maybe that team is back in the conversation . Yeah. Georgia. I brought up bills that is the only thing i agree with Chuck Schumer on he twehe tweet about it. Happy new year. Catch fox reports 247 or check out sirius rao xm 115 trouble for sam sundayisung cus complain of issues next hour mornings with maria right here back in a minute. Because it had to be a shot you had to be a big shot, did not you but he never called me back if your cousins wifes sisters husband isnt a lawyer, call legalzoom and well connect you with an attorney. Legalzoom. Where life meets legal. 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On the east coast, a jampacked agenda, President Trump, is back at the wisely this morning, as he administration prepares to tackle numerous key issues including infrastructure, in Immigration Reform second year in office. We have going to have a great year a fantastic 2018. We are off to a very good start as you know with great tax cuts, and getting rid of the individual mandate very, very unpopular, as you know. But we are going to have a tremendous year. Stock market i think going to continue to go up, companies are going to continue to come into the country. And they are doing it now soon to be a record clip. Mary commander in chief will lay out plans in a meeting with Republican Leadership at camp david this week going there up coming weekend, investors hoping for a record year on wall street meanwhile, futures indicating a rally at start of trading, this right here, this is the high of the morning, dow industrials expected to be up 70 points, nasdaq up 25 points, look at this, this is on top of the dow being up 25 in 2017. Nasdaq up 28 , in the last year, in europe, different story the euro is rising up all morning ft 100 town a half a cac quarante down, the euro goes up in asia overnight, stocks closed higher japan closed for holiday the best in hong kong hang seng up 2 , the new year has already started with a test for President Trump, nine people including a child reportedly died overnight as protesters in iran have intensified the president tweeted support for demonstrations saying in part people have little food big inflation no human rights u. S. Is watching, the president tweeted that this morning, the very latest day on escalating tensions in that country coming up new questions surrounding Hillary Clinton former top aid huma abedin rorlt phoned in sensitive eeasily with go to tax words to personal yahoo do not may have been compromised during the massive hack atack new year problems for sam shunning fresh battery issues users are facing this morning if resolution to make more money grab a Lottery Ticket combined jackpot for Mega Millions powerball swells to nearly 800 the Million Dollars coming up this Tuesday Morning, joining me to break it down fox Business Network dagen mcdowell, the wall street journal the wall street journal James Freeman, vision four Fund Distributors Vice President heather here. I love, bring it on in 201. I tweeted out this weekend i am ready to rock, because i am fired up, about so much going on, in business, and in politics, big year. Dagen a huge year one thing to watch is to see how this tax cut to tax reform package really plays out among individuals in businesses not just fatter paychecks come february for most americans. But also how businesses react to it and thank you maneuvering that starts going on in terms of real estate prices, in these high tax going to be a lot in terms of finances. Before the end of the year i was honored to receive a phone call from President Trump. And it was because he was watching this program, and he saw our rant on carried interest we were going backandforth if you remember, toward end of the year about why carried interest in that loophole made into it the tax plan. He called me, and left a message secretary did i called back, he explained to me that the donors were incredible, by the way, on both sides the lobbyists they that is why you dont hear nancy pelosi or Chuck Schumer talking about any problems carried interest is still in there because the deprive equity lobbyists are all over guys said it wasnt gaveing to raise enough monday to move needle in terms of one of the payfors i still think should be out. That is the swamp you are talking about why people voted in you to the office to clean it up i leave it on that dont get you think have up in a one thing in vast tax reform package that is one thing we like the tax package i also i think should be said there is an argument that this is appropriately treated as Investment Income not. You think so so i think there is there is an economic case, and i agree with you in terms of of the overall package, obviously you dont want these things written by a sort of the best lobbyist wins competition. Really an interesting to hear you say this so you think that the fact that private equity gets to pay 20 instead of of the highest 37 you this i that is appropriate . Yeah these are these are based on the performance of investments, we tax other investments, with in a different way than we tax personal income i dont see why this should be different i think it was expected that it would be a tradeoff as they put this plan together, and pretty surprising that it didnt change, but i think there is a good economic case to keep it the way it is. All right weve got that conversation to come as well President Trump is back in washington this morning, he is gearing up for a by these ambitious agenda in 2018 the president said one first priorities for the new year, is infrastructure. Where are we on the agenda when can we expect official announcement from that regard. Reporter sometime in january good morning to you, the white house said that sometime in early january we would get kind of an outline of infrastructure, remember, back when President Trump first took office within first few months got outline what tax reform would look like then, of course, they we went to work we are expecting that kind of thing as you look at video of the president returning to washington late yesterday afternoon, he is already off and running is at work congress, by the way, still on vacation, congress the senate comes back tomorrow, we have the house next week, but they have got to deal with several issues Kellyanne Conway on fox friends just laid them out there is boosting the continuing resolution to fund the government january 19 deadline raising spending caps there is welfare row form daca deal having to work that out a great deal before they get to infrastructure but the president made it clear that he wants to build on the momentum of his successful 2017. Legislative victories here is what he said. We are of to very good start as you know great tax cuts, and getting rid of the individual mandate very, very unpopular, as you know. But we are going to have a tremendous year. Stock market i think is going to continuing to up. Profits are going to continue to come into the country, and doing it now, soon to be a record clip. Now one thing the president has said, as well as Mitch Mcconnell thereof end of last year they are willing to work with democrats mcconnell saying he will need democrats you need 60 votes to do anything in the senate Kellyanne Conway, on fox friends said we want democratically support on these measures she went on to say remember they see are Midterm Elections in which democrats especially Democratic Senators will be fighting to retain seats said democrats are probably thinking when i had an opportunity to keep government open, i went ahead and did that didnt let party petty partisan politics get in the way. So the white house extending a hand to democrats they want to keep jobs saying work with us we will work with you, back to you. Thanks so much, joining us right now more about the agenda and tax reform, is americans for tax reform president he Grover Norquist happy new year. Hey happy new year yeah. So lets start with the tax plan, then go over to the priorities in terms of legislation, the tax plan when could you expect a real impact this year. Well i think we have been seeing it over the last six months. True. The stock market people have begun to understand, that this was real going to happen, how good it was. Interestingly, look we are going to see in dozens of states, and hundreds of cities, a discussion, now that our high about income taxes state level ant high property taxes in cities no longer subdividsu this is a healthy discussion in chicago and new york, and new jersey, and parts of california. So this is an opportunity for pro tax payer candidates to actually win in blue states, because now you are playing with honest figures. I think you make such a good point i think one of the reasons we are going to see people moving out of new york, moving out of you know some high tax states they are going to say you know what James Freeman i am not this is not worth it i am not facing high taxes. Going to move governors. I home doesnt get to point all successful people leave new jersey before message gets through it starting to sink in see how quickly politicians adapt to this new reality, and realize they have to reform. This is a slow moving boat grover something that will take years upon years upon years to happen. What is it going to take . I said is new york going to need to urban the into a bigger sinkhole than it is to get politicians running government to do something about high taxes. I think you can have candidates running against high taxes, credibly, when it is clear that the high taxes are no longer sub. It puts republican on even level with democrats, when even governors new york and california new jersey, these become something you could think about, and state legislators as well, it doesnt change the world tomorrow, but it really does change the direction, the decision is going to go for lower taxes and less spending, more often and less of an for higher taxes and hire spend. Dagen to your point i have heard that at a verb sibsidize over and over in tax law debate living in the connecticut new york people resent that because we are a net giver to the federal not a taker so i turn it had on its head and talk to all the l lawmakerers from red states we are tired of subsidizing your spending figure out a way improve not take so much when takers not gifrs. All blue states faulty. Two issues one you have two high state taxes too high local taxes stop that you are hurting yourselves stop banging your head against the wall blaming the rest the world two, why does new york give more have more taken from it will than other states . Higher incomes, why are higher incomes taxed heavily democratically senators from new York New Jersey california massachusetts connecticut vote for top rate going to be 37 , used to be 28 with reagan tax cut up to 30 democrats did that obama did that, clinton did that, George Herbert walker bush started the ball rolling those rates should be down and a lot of that new york pays more, would go down, because those high tax rates hit blue cities blue states a self inflicted wound we can fix it tomorrow if that lady warren from massachusetts would vote with us we could cut did massachusetts taxes like that. Speaking grover of federal system again, obviously, this is a big step toward progrowth tax reform but i know you are not done, you are note closing your organization today. If we want to think about i am guessing not 2018 but the 2019 what are those elements that you would like to see in the next round of tax reform . Okay there is in finished business we need trespasser tax cuts Everybody Knows going to be permanent, and as soon as possible, make that clear, so there is certainty that is all those the lower rates for individuals, that is the full expensing for business investment, all of those temporary tax cuts need to be made permeate completely doable inside reconciliation as we move forward we need the look at stuff left on the table we taxed American Companies, now, territorial business rather than worldwide, but american citizens who Work Overseas are still taxed double, they are taxed by american taxes and french taxes in france we need to treat americans working aburrowing as well, as we treat American Companies working abroad american works in france paris in saudi arabia this is a american job, that is not foreign job this is a american job americans being paid by foreigners we should have more americans working overseas getting that lovely phenomeforeign money sho not be double taxed where they are overseas this is a in finished Business Tax Reform as well as tax reduction. With rared to Unfinished Business grover recently you referred to the amt as a small payfor that can grow i believe i read that in interview, so why having this threshold up to a Million Dollars, on the individual why is that plot to good enough . It is not good enough because, any time you leave a tax there, like crabgrass cutting crabgrass wouvedown the work you have pull it out. Inflation takes holed people move into that bracket, all of a sudden they are rich, and they can hillary wanted to take the tax the death tax dramatically expand to more americans we took it to fury. We need to take it to nine amt as well amt set up 115 people in 1969, Kennedy Nixon got together did something evil and stupid amt 115 people to hit now millions. The evil and stupid, all right, cant get worse good to see you thanks so much. Good to be with you. We will take a break when we come back, at a agenda for 2018, markets as well back in a minute. Mary welcome back President Trump take sag tough stance on iran following days of detailed protesters Cheryl Casone with the story now cheryl. Cheryl that is right maria President Trump, siding with people of iran, to streets to praest government more than 20 died since clashes indian last thursday, President Trump tweeted this, the people of iranr finally acting against the brutality cup Iranian Regime all money that president obama foolishly gave them went interrorism into position little food big inflation no human rights u. S. Is watching, exclamation mark. The the wall street journal is now prorth, that the Trump Administration threatening around a new sanctions on iran if government forcefully cracks down on demonstrations. Well, thousands of passengers airports nationwide strandeded for hours, after the u. S. He immigration passport System Stopped Working last night. Here is my connecting flight then delayed, going to miss again i dont know where to go nobody seems to be allegeable able to help. Me. Well, the glitch forced agents 20 process flyers for backup system slower sparked delays system is back to normal this morning. Well, samsung hit by battery problem this time galaxy 8 users said unable to charge turn on devices, after batteries went dry, samsung says only a small number of users experienced the problem, company advises them to get warranty placements, in 2016 samsung issues a major raul after several phones caught fire because of the batteries. Mary thank you, coming up could apple become the new home for strangers things some analysts say Technology Giant could acquire netflix we are going to talk about that stock is up this morning apple check net note new year new you the best ways to start 2018 on your right and natural footing back in a minute. Whoooo. When it comes to travel, i sweat the details. Late checkout. 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Well, i want people to step back and understand exactly how much money they have coming in, it is not so much to go with your salaried amount you need to know net amount what is coming in versus what is going out what are obligations. And so if you can really pull back and look at this will help you be a better manager, will help you start to understand where can i cut back, and then where do i need to fast forward. Wondering about as you advise people on investing this year obviously sthoks had a great run trading at pretty my multiples to earnings does your advice change based on where the market is . Or is it here is the longterm plan, and stick with it regardless . I think with when it comes to investing that the longrange plan is definitely the best process to take. I tell people a lot like riding a roller coaster going to be upset and downs but as long as longterm plan is connecting you understands what your investing in, the expected returns also making sure you are sitting down with your investment professional to make tweaks you are going to be fine look understand, it is a process that you need to follow, but you can stick to the process, when you know your steps and you know they expected outcome. Mary you have to understand what you are dealing with you know today we are dealing with a different situation, acquiesce got a new tax code in place. Cross the country phone calls are going on between people and accountants businesses accountants want to know what changed how to best capitalize on changes so is there anything about this tax plan that you want to mention that needs to be included in our thought process in terms of our money . Well maria, when you start to step back and look at it whenever you have big changes people are more engaging, i think that is a great opportunity for people to start to expand their knowledge, and truly start to understand where they are, and what needs to be done, i mean obviously when you have the limits on what you can conduct deck from mortgages changes on Small Businesses owners all things that people do need to be aware of, they do need to reach out talk to professionals and start to truly understand, where am i how does this impact me, and what changes do i need to make based on new law. Mary i am talking about dagen like people might want to sell assets usually in new york city, you are paying 17 city and state, and any other taxes on top of you know people say i want to move to florida not pay state and city taxes, really, i mean i think right now people having conversations we need may see exodus on the of high tax states. Dagen stories about about celebrities putting multimilliondollar town houses apartments on market to start new year they have got better Financial Advisers than anybody but to chriss point if you want a wakeup moment for people, who spend money on credit cards, watch Interest Rates go up a selloff to start newyear bonds are lower in the United States, and across europe you see Interest Rates start ticking up not just Federal Reserve but longer term Interest Rates more expensive to or about to buy a house interest on credit cards goes up chris that is when people realize oh i cant afford what i spent. Well you have to be careful, dagen you and i talked about this before any time you have debt you have a threat in your life, i want people upon threat free debt free unnecessary where they are watts going on, Interest Rates when you paid off your home you paid off credit cards you are not concerned with that i want to encourage people, be aware buy right kind of house not ng the Bank Approves you important understand how it impacts you payments you can afford only take out a 15 year fixed rate pay that thing off and own it then you dont worry about any other changes. Completely agree with you that is responsible lending i hope we can get back to that because the banks have even made it more difficult for people to get loans pendulum perhaps swung toor far opposite direction, since pre2007 since precrisis what is best advice to millennials not just baby boomers but millennials Going Forward. If could i gather you will millennials would tell them Incredible Opportunity time on sidewalking through understanding how money works, i give them all a copy of my book retire all right. And plug into your 401 k dont pull it out it is not Emergency Fund it is not a Vacation Fund this is your dream fund if you start early and leave it lone, you will be a millionaire eventual. We are fans of 401 k s good to see you, about coming up under fire Hillary Clinton top aide huma abedin facing backlash this morning after reportedly forwarding government emails to personal yahoo account, before the companies 2013 data breach information could be compromised, next, she sent her passwords to yahoo account, then disney win star wars last jedi finishing top grossing movie of the year in 2017 Box Office Earnings straight ahead thats what i want, thats what i want thats what i want. What i want thats what i want they appear out of nowhere. My secret visitors. Hallucinations and delusions. 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Huma abedin under fire again this morning, the top aide to Hillary Clinton on the hot seat for reportedly forwarding Sensitive State Department emails to personal yahoo account, before the companys 2013 data breefb forwarded her password as well, florida congressman ron desantis weighed in last hour. One of the big problems with this whole clinton matter, is that you see things happening and the fbi and Justice Department treat it as differently, than they would almost any other time this is going to be a big ig report coming out the im not sure that is strong as i would like to see but, clearly, there were problems with this. Markets kick off new year just the way they ended stronger, this is first new trading day, of the new year, and take a look at markets with highs of the morning right here dow industrials set to open up 90 points, a third of a percent higher s p 500 up a hired of a percent up 25 2017, nasdaq up 28 in the last year, it is up this morning, about 26 points almost one half of a percent, in year different stories down across the board as euro rises, ft 100 down a half of a percent as cac quarante in paris, the dax in germany down three quarters of a percent as euro continues up, this morning, in asia overnight, stocks closed higher japan was closed for holiday the other majors higher across the board. A turbulent start is for boeing concern for investors after aircraft manufacture mulls developing a new plane after 15 year hiatus stock this morning up better than a dollar a share. Could Stranger Things find a new home with apple. Analysts saying there is a 40 chance Technology Giant could acquire netflix they must have been talking to dagen saying it for years potential deal could mean for the industry coming up, plus disney cashing in this is not going to go the way you think. Mary and the winner is last jedi winning 2017 box Office Ranking in more than a billion dollars worldwide only three week, after it release, how earnings stack to up past films in the franchise, stories coming up Tuesday Morning joining me to break it down fox Business Network dagen mcdowell, James Freeman, and vision for fund distributes Vice President heather is with us happy new year. Good morning, happy new year. So far, you have been calling. I dont understand why apple hasnt to buy netflix again, the powerhouse juggernaut disney could will likely be buying the fox entertainment assets, that is going to be incredible in terms of controlling really building something online to control its own content and deliver it maybe better because if you go through netflix it is hard to find content that you really want you can see it slowly disappearing where disney is wrapping its arms around its own products, and not handing them away any longer. Disney already king of the jungle after this, really the king of the jungle after plying folks fox assets, huge deal smart deal. I guess apple eventually would say we give up trying to replicate what they have done, it is so much bigger now that is is what an operator the dominant distributor. Technology companies are willing to step up to the plate with huge amounts of money to pay for content. The people you know, companies facebook, amazon how about amazon upwards 8 billion dollars for new programming. Endangering rather than doing what disney did buying the simpsons, as just one example you want to talk about a juggernaut in entertainment. Mary absolutely. Dagen they are paying people to create new things, and so you have rising costs for entertainment products of declining quality therein lies the problem that netflix will have. 2018 merge acquisition, especially among all tech giants, that have billions of dollars cash on Balance Sheets apple has the most overseas will stand to benefit, from that repatriation, the most favoring that contact over, looks more deals to come. With all that money they are spending you think there would never be a better time to be someone low is engaged in the production of movies, television, acting, all of those jobs huge demand for their services yet you look on twitter people are so unhappy. Well i know who you are following on twister but i do say really quickly, to all these selfstyled tax policy experts, who work in hollywood for a living putting a in front of the word fat pontificating about tax reform bill doesnt make it true. I will leave it at that, all the talking points, more talking points, to give away to the rich, not it is gonna hurt more people than it helps . Not true children will die . A disturbing report about Hillary Clinton email scandal clinton aide huma abedin forwarded sensitive emails passwords government passwords to yahoo account according to the daily caller suffered massive breach in 2013 feathing billions of accounts here is what President Trump said crooked ill have hillary, top aide an bean put classified passwords into hands of foreign agents rechlz sailors pictures on submarines . Jail, excomplamation point deep state Justice Department mutact also comey and others, joining us to work through all this talk it through is former chief of staff, mack mclarty happy new year to you. Well maria happy new year to you, and to your panelists glad to be with you. Thank you so much. Reaction to this story on a serious matter, mac we continue to talk about this email scandal because we know that there is impact, and huma abedin now we learn forwarded all documents with passwords to her yahoo account what is your reaction . Maria it is a serious matter, this is kind of groundhog at a we have been talking about emails what it suggests we are in a new era with emails the way we communicate, privacy an issue hacking that is how these came to light, i think all of them have to be fairly and fairly investigated and done so in a timely manner that includes the russian investigation, as well, and i think the American Public is ready to get this done and move forward. But i think it is a serious matter you cant you cant dismiss it. I starting the show off, on during the commercial break talking to colleagues here about rule of law, and how important it is mac that American People trust agencies like fbi like cia like irs are for example if you cant trust the people running the irs are actually doing their job, based on facts based on accuracy not little leanings people in fbi changing lang what Hillary Clinton did they are getting money for Senate Campaigns et cetera,. How do you turn this ship around mack when you have to go the all agencies obviously politicized . Trust in Public Institutions is a cornerstone of democracy, i think new director of the fbi chris, spoke very thoughtfully seriously last congressional hacker. Congressional hearing talked about report one way to get to it i think we have a new administration in charge that is turning of the page, so to speak, or some issues you are talking about, and, of course, congressional standing maria as you and panelists know at very low level this is a fundamental issue in our democrat if only institution that is well right now the military. Speaking of military, James Freeman here with the wall street journal, people in military obviously know that they can be disciplined harshly occasionally are for reckless with classified information you have new story on huma abedin i am working on how this happened . Hillary clinton in memory would wrote about how careful they are supposed to be with sensitive information. When you observe and know clintons well he will why do you think there was such a recklessness what do you think the reason for all of this private server mess handling of information with emails . I am not sure i am ready to accept your premise of recollectlessness i think we are in new era regarding emails just how we communicate and bear in mind this and others really come to light, not that it makes it less serious or classified information involved came to light with hacking of emails. That is a very different dynamic than we have seen in the last several years. So i think weve got to come to grips with all of that. But your point about getting the facts, what happened, why, and then if there does need to be appropriate action, considered i think that is fair. That is the point though i dont know how this is being followed up, by the way, you say reckless, the initial words from jim comey gross negligence changersed to care less than expected by mccabe i believe, devin nunes wants to expand the investigation of the russian interference in 2016 election, and he is reportedly accusing the Justice Department and fbi of corruption. When it comes to claims of the trump dossier now nunes is doing this without the blessing of the gop, but he is getting stonewalled, so you are saying mack you you believe as we all do a fair investigation needs to take place, but they are stonewalling them not giving him what he asked. What do you think happened here how is he supposed to deal with that . Well i think we have to be very careful, here on both sides of the aisle maria not to politicize committees set up to function properly the republicans have chairmanship of those committees, and the head of the fbi was appointed by President Trump, as was director pompeo at cia a very distinguished patriot more than having served in military graduated west point so youve got very respected people heading those particular agencies and youve got former senator Jeff Sessions one of the earliest supporters of President Trump at Justice Department there is no question Justice Department agency well as fbi cia need to be responsive to correct me if im wrong inquiries chairl going on as well as you mueller investigation. How will public respond youve got election this year obviously the right going to be writing campaigning on an economy that they believe will continue to get better. But also going to be hitting this issue, give us your sense of the 2018 election to come is it going to work for the stonewalling for the obstructionism on left to continue mac rr do you think voters are getting upset with that or not . I think voters likely will begin to turn that off some, i think he credibility and trust are also a important any election but people are really looking for members of congress and Midterm Electionss, of course, that runs to the white house as well. Who is going to pick a my life better going to make my life or my children and grandchildren better for the future that is what i think voters are going to be focused on, and we will see low makes the case right now democrats have a modest advantage would seem you point out economy getting stronger a long tie to election time my sense is there was a lot of discussion in Campaign People are ready to move on to the more serious issues as they see it affecting them not only economy but weve got some very serious Foreign Policy issues Security Issues that is what i think will dominate the elections and should maria it should. Mary a good point, mack alleges a a pleasure to have you on the Program Thanks so much. Maria thank you very much. We will be right back. When i received the diagnoses, i knew at that exact moment. Im beating this. My main focus was to find a team of doctors. Its not just picking a surgeon, its picking the care team and feeling secure in where you are. 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Good morning to you happy new year maria happy new year to everybody markets higher, the big news is star wars fans you got it, star wars is number one for 2017 highest grossing film finishing in first place, and the last 8th highest grossing domestic film of all time 15 million behind last years, star wars story great news for disney up 1 this morning, then a lot of news circulating around apple first and foremost is about a potential deal that citigroup saying 40 likelihood apple acquires netflix trump tax plan they can repatriate a ton of cash the very large war chest 220 billion 250 billion, 50 billion more each year, piling it on, so they think this is a the most likely emergency and acquisition for apple buybacks a possible they use a third to buy netflix the other stories apple accelerating battery placement pipe ohr jafries has comments. A good market up about 100 points on dow thanks so much boeing expected to decide, whether to start developing air lineer the first in 15 years cheryl. Cheryl another stock to watch, the new boeing aircraft only as a quote new midsized plane likely a double aisle jet begin delivers 2025, investors worry because cost uncertain market demand, that was 787 launched in 200 cost 30 billion dollars only the began turning a lot of last year boeing up nearly 90 last year. All right. 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Thank you, coming up could netflix and apple join forces some predict the giant is looking to acquire Strategic Service a hefty price tag look what the stock is doing after that analyst at citigroup made the call, netflix up 1 1 2 back in a moment right here. Jim. Mary breaking news President Trump tweeting again this morning saying this, more companies are giving big bonuses to workers because of the tax cut bill, really great we have seen actually Companies Like goldman sachs, among others accelerating Bonus Program into 2017. As opposed to 2018 as a result of that bill two days into new year we are already on acquisition patch apple taking advantage of new Corporate Tax rate could set sights on a deal we are hearing that this is being speculated this morning after analyst at citigroup talked about it Lauren Simonetti here with more of that, lauren. Happy new year everybody citi says 48 chance that because of new tax law, about netflix 40 chance disn challenge to netflix may be considering a little bit more citi specifically talking about repatriation rate apple has 252 billion dollars overseas, in cash. If they bring that money home, at a lower rate, lets say they have 220 billion dollars to spend, what do you do with 220 billion dollars . Clearly buy netflix two times over because their valued at 83 billion dollars, we have no idea how much they want, et cetera, for the company even open the selling it but netflix spending 8 billion dollars this year on content, apple spending at least a billion dollars on content, Everything Else going on in this ever changing language escape could make sense. I know we speculated about it had dagen you were first to bring it up obviously a company that is where everybody wants right now this is a content. Dagen right, absolutely, but i one of the things that has gotten in the way all along i would argue the praise of nice netflix what you are getting for 83 billion dollars not just customers quite frankly people on fine are quite fickle the content is lets talk about it, it is shaky house of cards going away after season kevin spacey gone crown Second Season not that good, so it is it is very hard to produce consistently good shows that is why disney was willing to pay up for the amount it did buying our Apparent Company entertainment assets from our Apparent Company. I cant remember when that clamp down starts all disney content disappears from for a long time net ability to create a competitor to netflix what disney is getting ready to do. Good luck trying to compete with disney, really. You know, they got what they wanted in washington, i would add in objeama easier got white house to force Net Neutrality on fcc that going away not quite such a fun business. We will see that would be expensive deal good to see you thanks so much Lauren Simonetti with that we will be right back, stay with us. Whoooo. When it comes to travel, i sweat the details. Late checkout. Downalternative pillows. And of course, price. Tripadvisor helps you book a. Hotel without breaking a sweat. Because we now instantly. Search over 200 booking sites. To find you the lowest price. On the hotel you want. Dont sweat your booking. Tripadvisor. The latest reviews. The lowest prices. Great show everybody great to see you thanks so much. Have a great day everybody cease the day lets get to Varney Company alabamaly webster in. Ashley im Ashley Webster in for stuart who unfortunately as we kick off the new year feeling a little bit under weather he wanted to be here. Hell be back tomorrow he says so we wish hill well. New year for the market, of course, your money. The dow is just one big rally away from 25,000 look at that 24840 so questions we ask is trading begins in 2018, is a poll back coming surely those will be become and what do you boy and sell we have the answers for you. Back to work on washington immigration and president looking for bipartisan support