Gop establishment over the weekend. And Hillary Clinton in response to a question about Harvey Weinstein says, quote, we have a Sexual Assaulter in the white house, unquote. And, oh, by the way, her foundation not return weinsteins 250,000 in donations. Well get into that. Big day as always for politics and money. Varney company is about to begin. Ashley but we begin this hour with some breaking news. At least seven people are now reported injured and one person is missing after an oil rig exploded last night in louisiana. Lauren simonetti joining us for three hours today. Whats the latest from louisiana . Look at that picture, ashley. This happened about dinner time last night. Lake ponte cher train upon cher train, basically, that oil rig exploded. They dont know exactly why right now. The thinking is cleaning chemicals on the platform caused the explosion. Either way, you have seven people injured, at least seven, five of them were hearing are in pretty bad condition, and theyre searching for one missing man. People are concerned about the safety of the water. The Drinking Water is safe, it doesnt come from the lake, it comes from the mississippi river, so thats good news. The weather is calm, so that should help in the rescue and the recovery and also help the spread of oil in the lake. Ashley well keep an eye on that story, lauren, thank you very much. Lets take a quick look at the futures, as we just said, one good rally away from dow 23,000, about 148 when you look at that, the futures showing about 22 points on the dow. Come in, James Freeman, with the wall street editorial page. Wall street journal, that is. Thanks for being here. Were going to hit 23,000 this week, right . Well, earnings are, you know, im not one that thinks stocks are cheap right now, but if youre looking for a reason to be optimistic, white house today, this morning, putting out a report really an Effective Sales pitch for their tax agenda. Ashley right. Basically showing how when Corporate Income taxes go up, wages go down. They martial a lot of evidence from across states, across countries. So seeing them make this kind of case, i think ashley listen, the stock market is not always a proxy on the economy. Thats right. Ashley the economy seems to be going along quite nicely, would you agree . Id say were getting a lot of positive indicators, got some good reports on manufacturing recently. Ashley yep. Beneath the headline a good employment report, jobs growing in the household survey. But stock prices, i dont know. The runup has been faster than earnings growth, its been hard ashley seems to me right now the naysayers are coming out of the woodwork. The its coming. Which kind of makes sense. Youd think people would grow more skeptical. Ashley a lot of people missed out on a huge rally. Thats for sure. Ashley difficult time to jump in, i agree. Steve bannon, wow, he vows to challenge six of the seven incumbent gop senators up for reelection in the 2018 election. Roll tape. Right now its a season of war against a gop establishment. Nobody can run and hide on this one. These folks are coming for you. President trumps not only going to finish this term, hes going to win with 400 electoral votes in 2020. Ashley hes a lightning rod for all sorts of interesting comments. Joining us now, congressman ralph norman, republican from south carolina. Congressman, thank you very much. Lets begin there. Lets get your reaction to what mr. Bannon was saying over the weekend. Well, you know, one thing about steve bannon, hes real. When he talks, hes real. Hes somebody who not just talks, but he puts his words into action. My thoughts are this competition is good in anything, particularly in politics. I think, you know, term limits should be in effect. Its not and probably wont be. But what hes doing is expressing what a lot of people are fed up with, is the senates inaction. We have 270 bills that we passed in the house that we cant get action on in the senate. So i think what hes doing is right. I think, as he says, its work. And hes willing to go to war. Ashley there seems to be more than one party within the Republican Party, and thats certainly very clear in the senate. If you cannot get tax reform done, how much is that going to hurt those republicans who are going to be running next year . It could be carnage. Well, you know, and if you look at the tax reform policy that we proposed, its for that average working man. For the rapid writeoffs, for that farmer who may buy a tractor, that mechanic who may add a bay to his shop. Its a good thing. So it should be carnage for those who oppose. We had 18 no democrats supported it. We have 18 republicans who voted against it. And i dont understand it. I mean, its to give money back to the taxpayers, it is a good thing. Particularly now. Look at whats happening all over the country. Ashley right. Look at the markets, whats happening there now. So i agree with him. Ashley well, next one for you, congressman, lets take a listen to congressman kevin brady talking about the budget and taxes. Roll that tape. Right now its very clear if you are a no vote on the budget, you are voting to kill tack reform. Theres tax reform. Theres just no way around it. Ashley you know, congressman, are you a yes vote on the budget . Absolutely. You know, now, was it perfect . No. But weve got to have tax reform. We didnt pass obamacare. And, again, the senate it took the Vice President to cast the deciding vote just to Debate Health care. Which is unexcusable. But weve got to have tax reform. Its good tax reform. Its not a good day for the tax collector, it is for the taxpayer. Hopefully, were going to get it across the goal line. Chairman brady, i think, has done a good job to bring consensus. And i think at the end of the day we get it. Ashley why is Mitch Mcconnell having so much problem getting the senate onboard with the big ticket items . Just seems to be an elephants graveyard over in the senate. Mitch mcconnell is going to be visiting the white house today, is it fair or not to blame part of this on Mitch Mcconnell . Well, you know, the thing about Mitch Mcconnell is i think hes a good man, but he wouldnt be majority leader if it had not been for donald trump. Donald trump carried states that no republican has ever carried, pennsylvania, wisconsin. Is so so hes where he is because of donald trump winning the election with the electoral college. So he ought to be all onboard. Hes in charge of a lot of the Committee Chairmanships which he ought to be putting pressure on those senators because if you look at it, this isnt rocket science. This is giving money back. Ashley yeah. And this is what republicans promised, and we control all three houses, you know, the house, the senate, the executive branch. And weve got the deliver. Ashley yes. A no vote on this is unexcusable. Ashley as you said, the frustration is almost palpable on a daily basis right now. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. My pleasure. Stuart talking of frustration, health reform. President trump tweeting this over the weekend about the Health InsurersHealth Insurance stocks which have gone through the roof during the obama years, plunged yesterday, and i ended the dems windfall. Stocks have gone straight up since obamacare went into law. Look at these numbers, some of these insurers, 647 . James freeman in here. You know, you could argue that the subsidies to the Insurance Companies was a bailout, as mr. Trump has stated. What happens to those stocks now in. Well, they obviously took a little wit of a hit little bit of a hit on friday. Ashley yeah. But, look, this is probably some shortterm 2018 pain, but long term unless be obamacare is reformed, theyre going to get other subsidies from the law increasing just because these were cut off. Now, this gets complicated. These were cut off because they were flat out illegal. Ashley right. The Obama Administration was appropriating without congress consent. Cant do that under the constitution. Ashley right. So President Trump ashley but that issues been caught up in the courts. In the meantime, these payments continue and they will continue i think im right in saying through next year. Its probably not until 2019 that those payments get cut. Hes cutting off the one type of subsidy, but what its going to do is trigger other subsidies to a lot of these insurers. So youre going to see a little bit reshuffling of the debt. I think maybe a unitedhealth does better under this new system than maybe a molina, but basically we need the fundamental reform and the rewrite. Ashley right. And its odd because were talking about insurers. Ashley right. The democrats keep talking about the health of the Insurance Companies as they defend the status quo, and obviously they dont really mean it. Theyre kind of saying that for the moment as a way to defend these companies. But i think President Trump is rightly focused on other things like patient welfare, taxpayer welfare ashley go figure. [laughter] i think the insurers will figure it out to. Ashley im sure they will, james. Of thanks very much. The Clinton Foundation says it will not return nearly a quarter of a Million Dollars donated by Harvey Weinstein. Guess what . 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But listen, you raised millions last year for those devastating fires in tennessee. Were seeing a very horrible scene in Northern California now. How much money did you raise, and how how did you go about th . The last i heard it was around 12 million, and we were very happy because i had a lot of help. I got to take a lot of credit for a lot of work from a lot of people. But everything worked out well for us there, all the wonderful entertainers in nashville and all around the world and donations from all around the world. People were really good about it, and im sure the same thing is going to happen with the fires there. When i saw that, it just broke my heart. I can so relate to that. Ashley yeah. But people will jump in, and they have been, all the entertainers doing whatever. We just all need to do what we can do. And ive been donating books by the hundreds of thousands ashley your Imagination Library. Yes, with the hurricanes and the fires and anything elsewhere the people need to do and, of course, we try to help any way we can. Ashley last year you also created i think it was called my people fund. Yes. Ashley that provided victims of families with 1,000 a month for six months. How vital was that to those it was very vital and very helpful. In fact, at that time we thought we werent going to make as much money as we did. But as the time went on, they wound up getting 10,000 instead of the six that we thought they were going to. Ashley wow. And not only that, there was extra money we rolled over into some other funds to help the fire victims with other things. But every dime of the money that we raised went to the fire victims and is still going, people that kind of maybe have problems brought on by the fires with loan problems, Health Problems or to buy cars that got destroyed to make sure they get to work. So theres a lot of, you know, things still going on there. Ashley but it took your star power to get that going, and you think that can be done in california. Yes, i absolutely do, and i think thats whats happening now with raising all the money for all the problems. The stars need to step up, and they do. Very generous, i think, entertainers, dont you . Ashley youre always at the forefront. Well, i like to do my part, but there are many others that do more and equally as much, for sure. Ashley this is a tough summing, but they said please ask about the Harvey Weinstein situation. Youve been in movies and in the Entertainment Industry as, you know, a worldrenowned singer. Whats your reaction to whats happened . Are you shocked . Well, yeah. Thats a heartbreaking situation all around. I only worked with harvey once, and he worked my butt off. [laughter] he was a businessman also. But i never had the problems with him that some of them did. But that happens a lot. Ive been in this business a long time ashley there is that culture, you think . Oh, yes, i think thats true. Ashley even today . Oh, sure. But anyway, i dont like to ashley whats your advice to young actresses or entertainers wanting to get into the business . I think things like this are going to bring to the forefront, and i think thatll give them extra strength to say, hey, remember what happened here, you better back off a little bit. But i myself, aye been this a long time. I grew up in a family of six brothers, my dad and my uncles, so they kind of taught me the ropes if i got in those situations. I really have been lucky, luckier than most. But its a sad situation, i agree. Ashley lets change subjects. Lets talk about you do a lot for children. You have your Imagination Library which i have covered in nashville when i saw you there, and you make sure every child has a book the read. Now you have an album, a childrens album coming out. Tell me about that. Well, the album is called i believe in you, and its based on the little engine that could, the first book that we give out. And a lot of the songs be are based on some of the books through the Penguin Company ashley sure. That give us the books for the Imagination Library. This one is just about building confidence. I try to write songs that have to do with Little Things that kids go through. Theres one about bullying, its called making funny funny, and theres one about responsibility. They not only learn how to spell the word, but they learn about responsibility ashley are these original songsesome. Yes. I wrote all the songs in thal one. Ive been writing songs for kids all through the years. Ashley do you write every day . A little bit of something, a melody, something unless im just completely sick or completely busy. Ashley thats never going to change. Its spinning in my head. I come up with a title or something. Ashley what do you think of the state of Country Music today, dolly . Well, im very proud. I think its the best music there is, and i think the whole world is kind of looking at it like that. So it used to be people were ashamed of it. They called it that skicking music, remember . Back when . [laughter] ashley sure. But now its the music to love. Ashley well, we love you. Thank you for all your effort, youre always first to offer your services and to help people in need, so its a privilege to meet you. Well, when you can help, you should. Ashley dolly parton, thank you so much for being here, in person, no less. Shares of nordstrom, members of the family have suspended their exploration of taking the company private. The stock reacting down 6 . Hillary clinton blasting