he s a war hero because he was captured. i like people who weren t captured, okay? i hate to tell you. do you agree with that? he s a war hero because he was captured, okay? and i believe perhaps he s a war hero, but right now he said some very bad things about a a lot of people. stuart: that comment, as you might imagine, did not go down very well. he is answering his critics in an op to you would in the usa today. here s one of the quotes. john mccain has could his own constituents who want a secure border crazies no one including the republican national committee criticize the senator for those comments. he s not back down on what he said about john mccain. with us this morning ashly webster. i ll start with you, katherine. let s get right at it, shall we? do you think trump s finished? i don t think he s going to admit he s finished or be it should as long as people are still listening to him which is really what this is about. he was doing very well in the poll
farmers to respond to avian influenza on their facilities. biosecurity is a term that describes every day and emergency disease processes a farmer uses to prevent and control diseases. it is probably the single greatest weapon that we have against avian influenza. unfortunately, biosecurity is not consistently applied by all farmers and all poultry companies. we need to look at, as far as number two is concerned, a few aspects of our current emergency response plan so we can respond more quickly, more rapidly to an incident. we can get into that a little bit later. number three, provide an insurance program for poultry farmers who contract with poultry companies to raise their flocks. dr. clifford mentioned indemocrat any fictionindem ni indemocrat fictions that have been paved. that s very important. they may or may not receive those indemnification. i think we should look into this seriously. vascy nation for controlling avian influenza in poultry requires very serious cons
this is appointing to how things open in a half hour. down, way down. this is dow jones industrial average futures. it s a look how things are going to work out 29 minutes from now. we re going to be down around 675, that s a significant 4% drop, it s huge. look at the price of oil. fresh 6 1/2 year low, 39.03. now at $38 again. and that, go en, is a huge selloff, but i want to trigger right at the start and get into the drop in china. look at these declines in asia. starting with the shanghai at the top down, 8 1/2%. hang-sang index, hong kong, japan down 4% and south korea 2%. mary kissel is right here. all right, china, there are reports there s speculation that the government in beijing has lost control and that s scary. well, i don t know about that, stuart. look, china may have been the trigger for a reality check for the markets. what has happened over the last six years, you had very low interest rates that let governments all over the world and china were partic
we ll explain it. and the fcc tells fox business he s not over looking stephen colbert s rant against president trump. varney & company is about to begin. hey, hey, goodbye well, those were democrats taunting, i think you can hear it, right? remember that song, na, na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye. they were taunting republicans with that after the obamacare replacement bill passed implying they ll lose their seats next yearment, but the republica republicans here is senator rand paul, roll tape. this will be the first time that republicans have affirmatively put their stamp of approval on a program where federal money, taxpayer money is paid to insurance companies, i m frankly not excited about subsidizing the profits of insurance companies. it sounds like you d be a no vote. it would take work to get me to a yes vote. charles: right now i want to go to the jobs report and bring in market watcher john layfield. the last three of four beats have been solid numbers.
are there any concerns they made that type of conference? no. charlie. how important was it for the fbi director failure to come out of the fbi i think that was prob one of the many factors. i mean, you can t deny somebody that that wasn t a probm. i think that s just another one of the many reasons that he no longer had the confidence that the president or the rest of the fbi. can we expect more firings from the justice department? not that i m aware of today. going forward, does the president want the department of justice to shut down what he call the taxpayer funded charade? he wants them to continue what he sees appropriate and continue any on going investigations. look, the bottom line is any investigation that was happening on monday is still happening today. that hasn t changed and, in fact, we encouraged them to complete this investigation, so we can put it behind us, and we can continue to see exactly what we ve been saying for nearly a year. there s n