Averages pointing to higher open in premarket, dow looking up by 53 right now, hammering the good news, over in europe taking a look at the markets, ftse again, one bright spot for european markets, up 26, in asia overnight, markets closing mixed, the kospi was closed for holiday, the nikkei the only average slightly in the red. Well, tragedy in new york on a freezing night flames ripped through an Apartment Building killing at least 12 people including four children. This tragedy is without question historic in its magnitude here and our hearts go out to every family that lost a loved one here and everyone thats fighting for their lives. We will have the latest from the investigation into the citys deadliest fire in decades. Well, no fear of the russia probe, President Trump opens up in a new interview saying that special Counsel Robert Mueller will treat him fairly and will be ultimately vindicated, explanation coming up. Investigating the investigators, House Intelligence Committee chairman devin nunes blasting the department of justice and fbi over the handling of the antitrump dossier. Details on the growing calls from the department to investigate themselves. And coldhard cash from uber, uber selling major stake to Investor Group valuing at 48 billion, why the deal is a win for both sides. Plus, apple apologizing for slowdown scandal over older iphone batteries. How its promising to make it right with customers . The new star wars sequel isnt the highest growing movie of 2017, youre shocked, i know it. What tops the top spot . We have a lot coming up. With me this morning, im so excited to have panel, political analyst amy holmes is with me this morning, rhino tradeing michael block and former nfl mr. Jack brewer, good morning. Great to be here. Cheryl 2017, here it is, we are wrapping it up, how yall feel . I feel really chilly. [laughter] i really enjoyed President Trumps tweet about that that we could use a little Global Warming right now. Cheryl what happened to Global Warming . I dont know, i came in from florida. Cheryl i dont want to hear about florida. Market is thinking about michael is thinking about markets. Mark penn will be here to talk politics along with special assistant to President Trump and former press secretary marc lo lotter. First top story, rush to go prepay property taxes, homeowners in hightaxed states across the country lined up this week attempt to go prepay property taxes ahead of new years day when the new tax bill goes into effect, that will limit state and local deductions and yet thats property taxes but Late Wednesday the irs issued new guidance, stipulating that only people who had property assessed for 2018, meaning, you have to have assessment in hand could prepay, potentially that puts thousands of people who have already paid those taxes in legal limbo now and that leafs local jurisdictions grappling with taxpayers that are searching for answers and knocking on their door. Joining us now to weigh in media adviser board member, dr. Jina. Hey, good morning. Good morning, good to be with you. Cheryl is this the first illeffects of tax reform and lastminute move by tax reform. People are upset about this, jina . Is this a bad thing . It feels bad for people in hightaxed states, i myself just relocated from california to florida for many of those reasons but i like that it shine it is light, frankly, on those states and local governments who are billing people for too much taxes. Many of us werent aware where those areas were and even those who live in the states could cover the whole thing up by playing with the tax system. If you cant do that anymore, it might work to have honest conversation with our state and local governments about taxes. Cheryl gina Governor Andrew Cuomo made it clear that they are looking at legal challenges to this because he feels and no Uncertain Terms that blue states have been targeted, in senators from blue states, no republican senators and this was a move by the administration to target california and new york. He says its an economic problem, that if youre going to hurt the two largest economies in the country youre going to hurt the economy overall, what do you make of that argument from cuomo . No, youre overtaxing your citizens, you know, california is one of those states where its on record as being the hardest place in the entire country to accumulate wealth. The really wealthy people in california, we all know this have residences in other states that are lower taxed and so theyre not even paying taxes in the state and so the burden really does fall on the middle class and poorer people, the working people out there to make up all of those differences and so here you have governors to try to keep overtaxing their people. How about instead of that, just once, some of these states admit to the fact, gosh, maybe we havent governed well, maybe we overtax our people, maybe we need to take another look at how we assess taxes on our citizens. I think thats the really honest approach here not trying to place show game and blame someone else for what they have done. Dr. Gina, michael block here, good morning, Everyone Wants lower taxes, the fact of the matter is blue states there is a lot of need, if you talk about cutting those taxes saying give the taxpayers a break, you maybe looking at bigger deficits, forget about that for a second, lets talk about youre on the president s Media Advisory council, are you concerned there could be some kind of backlash as the gop tries to retain senate and house seats in 2018 and coming years because the blue states feel like, well, gop went and stuck this on us, are you concerned about that taxes are too high and we are kicking into reform, are you concerned about backlash here . I mean, the only backlash that i see forthcoming is people realizing that theyve been overtaxed in the first place and they want to straighten out their state. I think that would be a good thing. This actually might sort of expose some of the governments in ways that they havent been exposed before. As far as the president , i dont really think this is going to have a backlash effect on him. These are already blue states, lets start there, they are under government rule under democrat rule in almost all cases and thats exactly why they are complaining because they havent been treated fairly, so i see the backlash happening against the blue states themselves. Cheryl cuomo calling a double taxation. He says he thinks special Counsel Robert Mueller will be fair in russia investigation, though he say it is inquiry itself make it is country looks bad, this comes after New York Times interview, asked if he would Order Justice Department to open probe to Hillary Clinton emails, quote, he said this, for purposes of hopefully thinking im going to be treated fairly, i stayed uninvolved with this particular matter. Do you agree that mueller will treat the russia investigation and the president fairly . I dont know about that but i appreciate the president s confidence and i appreciate the president letting the system play itself out. We have already seen that most of this investigation has actually led to most of the accusers in the first place, right, and so i can see why the president would feel confidence in this. The thing thats interesting to me here with my background in psychology is, if you watch the president from the very beginning of this investigation, the psychology, if you were looking for gaps, for example, in his emotional reaction or things that might indicate that there was any sort of a guilty conscious here, we just havent seen that. This is the psychology of an innocent person who has all confidence that when the truth is exposed, it is going to work in his favor. Cheryl we will see. Thats what we are seeing now. Cheryl we will see what happens. I want to get to something thats crucial here. President s comments, chair deafen nunes, blasting the Justice Department and fbi for failure to producing documents to antitrump dossier from the British Intelligence officer. Fox news obtained this letter, quote, at this point it seems the doj and the fbi need to be investigating themselves, i wanted to ask you about this gina and amy is onset. Do you agree that the fbi and doj need to look back at internal processes after what happened with the dossier and the fact that they cant get their hands on more details . I think most of america would agree with that statement and im really glad that we are starting to investigate lets call it swampiness, theyve managed to throw road blocks where they can, the investigation has not proceeded the way it should on this and if you hold this up to the investigations that have taken place when it is against the president and his administration, i think that should be very informative for people who are looking for the truth to be found so i absolutely agree. Dr. Gina, amy holmes here. We have found that nearly half of voters believe that there was and illegal effort to deny President Trump the presidency this last year. So from your perspective, do you think voters can have confidence on whatever are results of the investigation particularly what we have learned about the lead attorneys and investigators on muellers teams to have pretty deep biases against the president and as we found through messages for Hillary Clinton . Well, i think that sort of part of this thats most disturbing, we know not only that there were players intimately involved that had bias against the president , he needed to not be president and then went ahead and changed some of the verbiage in comeys report. Gosh, what else did they change . What else is out there that we need to know . Can we have confidence that thats been fully investigated . I dont know, time is going to tell. So far it has been a process where its almost like just them searching for different truths about the president has ended up exposing their own corruptions and hopefully more of this swampy behavior that americans voted against when they voted for President Trump will be exposed and our government can clean itself up and we can begin to you never want to say trust government, right, but we can begin to think that its not corrupt. Cheryl we have the run, but i want our viewers to hear this n a previous statement nunes has said that he has told his own committee, start drawing contempt for rosenstein and fbi director Christopher Wray unless demands are met. He wants documents on his desk and he has a great point about it. Thank you very much for being with us this morning. Thank you, happy new year. Cheryl happy new year. Coming up, soft bank taking a major stake in uber, thousand deal can shake up the transportation industry, thats coming up. Next. And apple says, sorry, apology from tech giant after performance issues with older models, we will explain coming up. No matter how the markets change. At t. Rowe price. Our disciplined approach remains. Global markets may be uncertain. But you can feel confident in our investment experience around the world. Call us or your advisor. T. Rowe price. Invest with confidence. For her compassion and care. He spent decades fighting to give families a second chance. 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Lauren just terrible, cheryl, the fire spread through every floor of a fivestory Apartment Building in the bronx within a matter of minutes last night killing 12 people including four children. Its new york citys deadliest fire in a quarter of a century. Four other people in Critical Condition as investigators are trying to find out what caused this deadly fire. Well, softbank has won a bid by stake in uber, Japanese Company set to acquire a stake for 8 billion, the deal values uber at 48 which is sharply below valuation which was almost 70 billion, the deal will close in january. Following that one, not two, but at least eight class action lawsuits from iphone users, apple apologizing for their older iphones performing more slowly. The company saying that it would not intentionally shorten the life of any apple product or degrade the User Experience to encourage people to go out and buy new models, apple said im sorry and im taking 50 bucks off the out of warranty iphone Battery Replacement for the next year bringing the cost down to 29 bucks for anyone with an iphone 6 and this all starts in late january, plus, new Software Update thats going to hit early next year and that should help with the battery life as well. Lets take a look at apple shares. They are lower today in the premarket. Down 18 cents at 170. 90 a pop, cheryl. Cheryl i had stop jack brewer from throwing the apple from set. Jack, no, no, dont do it. Youre really angry about this. No doubt, it kills my holiday in a lot of ways, every time i go on my iphone it was either frozen or i couldnt use it. I appreciate the 50 bucks but im selling some of the stock. [laughter] cheryl good profit before the end of the year. Apples whole reasoning for this, people are saying this is bologna is that we we wanted to preserve the components of the phone, we were slowing it down and shutting it down to preserve the components of the phone, do you believe that . I dont buy it at all, they are forcing you to do upgrades which is great and then your phone freezes, they have to do something about that. This is a nightmare for the consumers. I have issue with my ipad, i accepted upgrades and completely messed up the way ipad works, im getting suspicious about that. Cheryl they are good about updating the issues and bug fixes. Microsoft has been issue as well. Not just apple. Cheryl thanks, apple. Love you, apple. Coming up, President Trumps first year in office, we are going to take a look back at maria bartiromos exclusive interviews with the commander in chief in 2017. That is straight ahead. And a battle at the box office, we are breaking down how new film has stacked up against heavy hitters Like Star Wars the last jedi, thats later in the hour. Cannot live without it. So if you cant live without it. Why arent you using this guy . It makes your wifi awesomely fast. No. Still nope. Now were talking it gets you wifi here, here, and here. It even lets you take a time out. No no yes yes, indeed. Amazing speed, coverage and control. All with an xfi gateway. Find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. Cheryl are you looking for inspiration for new years eve look at the markets for the year the Dow Jones Rose by 35 . The s p 500 by 26 and the nasdaq leading the pack 34 gain. Look at the numbers michael block, last day of trading. We are wondering what the new year is going to bring, can we just say cheers with the coffee mugs. Yay, capitalism. Everyone on wall street is not working this week, we can argue whether they ever worked is going to come back to work next week and plug in a new tax rate to models and earning estimates will go up so stock market prices will go up. Theres a lot of reasons to be optimistic, data keeps Getting Better. Can data be Getting Better . In certain spots i have skepticism. Overall, next year higher than we are now. I do think theres going to be volatility, i dont sound very bullish right now. At some point next year where i will sound more bullish because we will have a dip. Im going to say, this is where you buy. Cheryl we have never seen a market in my lifetime, as long as ive been investing in the markets for 25 years, ive never seen this, i dont know about you, jack. No. Cheryl who knew what to expect, specially after health care failed, it was like, well, is tax reform dead, then it went through. Its been interesting to invest in a market like this. It really is. Its fun, if you look across the board and the Global Market is over 12 trillion thats been add today Companies Across the world, thats a lot of money. So the values of these companies are screaming, you talk about tax reform and wh