Open up higher, just a little higher, and yes, we are still very close to record highs. The dow is going to be up maybe 15, 20 points. Very small gain for the s p, 11 points up for the nasdaq, but up is the operative word of the day. Now look at this. Street battles in hong kong. That is the right word to use. Water cannon was in use, police pointed their guns. There is a report of a shot fired in the air. Chinas leader has a growing problem in his own backyard. Tomorrows october 1st. Chinas big day. The last thing xi jinping wants is more violence in the form of british colony. Big protests are planned. We will be looking at the impact of this on china trade and yes, on your money. Look at this, too. Huge fire at a new billion dollar train station in saudi arabia. That comes on the heels of the attack on the big oil refinery there, and the shooting death of a saudi general who was a bodyguard to top saudi leaders. Plus a reported attack on an American Military installation in somalia. You take all of that in the oil patch or close to it, you think it would bring the price of oil up . Wrong. Its down 77 cents a barrel, down to 55 as we speak. Then theres this. Watch out. Forever 21 bankrupt. Big day. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart theres my picture. On the outside of the building. Good vibrations indeed, everybody. Nice picture of me, too. We are indeed invested in you, as you will find out throughout our program and throughout fox Business Today and every day. This story certainly affects main street, thats you. Mainstay forever 21 files for bankruptcy. Kristina partsinevelos in the newsroom with the details. What did them in . Theres definitely a long list. The first is they expanded too quickly, going from seven to over 40 stores in less than six years. They didnt anticipate Fashion Online, theres competition, then you are showing on the screen now, those are forever 21 in malls and people arent going to malls as often, too, so that created a decrease in foot traffic. So forever 21 has officially announced that yes, they are filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy. I reached out to the company to get exactly the number of stores. They havent responded just yet but the New York Times is reporting they are closing 178 stores, up to 178 in the United States. 350 total. Thats a lot of stores. You think these are massive, massive stores. Forever 21 in times square is over 90,000 square feet, four floors. Imagine how expensive that rent is. Overall, forever 21 epitomizes fast fashion. Another trend, too, we are starting to see with a lot of stores is that people are buying consigned goods. Its a retail apocalypse. You are see gap closing 230 stores over the next two years, payless closing over 2,000 stores. Just across your screen right now, those are all companies that have filed for bankruptcy. Its happening across the board. Stuart it is. Its changing the face of america. What it looks like and what it feels like is rapidly being changed. Kristina, thank you very much. See you later in the show. Ive got to get to the violence in hong kong. The violence, it was there. A 17th straight week of protests led to police, as we said, they used water cannon. Protesters are setting fire, theres lots of vandalism. Look at it right there. This comes ahead of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china, october 1st. Thats tomorrow. Susan, those riots, i will call it what it is, those riots make xi jinping look weak. Susan absolutely. Defiant and also resentment over chinese rule, what kind of message does that send just ahead of the october 1st celebrations. We are expected to see 15,000 soldiers, 160 fighter jets roll down the streets of beijing. Meantime, hong kong, their financial artery for many, many decades, engulfed in thick clouds of smoke, as you see, tear gas, thousands marching in the streets once again and tens of dozens of arrests. They are saying we are hong kong, not Mainland China and this is in the backyard, by the way, of xi jinping, the chinese president , just ahead of a very important celebration. Stuart there are also smaller scale demonstrations, nonviolent, in taiwan. Susan thats right. There is a march here in new york city as well. Stuart thats right. Susan multiple cities around the world. Stuart its a big deal. I want to bring in andy puzder. Welcome back to the show. Good to be here. Stuart i want you to tell our audience what it means for their money, our money. Whats going on in hong kong . This shows a lot of strength with President Trump and his negotiations on china trade. You will remember, our younger viewers may not, this reminds me of what walesa did in the shipyards in poland when reagan was challenging the soviet union. We now have a president challenging china. China was viewed as this block you just couldnt penetrate. It was a strong economy, it was going to take over the world when he became president. Now we are seeing weakness in the economy, seeing weakness in the country politically, seeing these demonstrations in hong kong having an effect on xi jinping as he enters this 70th anniversary. This strengthens our president in negotiating with china, Wish Congress would stop weakening him. Stuart come back at 9 30. I want you to comment on the opening of the market. Despite all this turmoil we are seeing, political turmoil here and certainly abroad, the markets will open higher this morning. Up 20 odd for the dow, up about 15 on the nasdaq. Jeff sica joins us this morning. I will put it like this. Despite it all, the market is going up. A little bit. Its near record highs. Does that surprise you . It doesnt surprise me. This is good vibrations or ignorance is bliss, whatever you want to call it. But the bottom line is as long as the china trade talks, the china trade agreement is put out to the future, there will be continued upside in the market. Its when and if this falls apart that the market has trouble. My opinion is that we are in a position, the u. S. Is in a position, President Trump is in a position to get this through as quickly as he can for the election. China doesnt have that deadline so they can drag their feet as much as they want and they have been, in order to get what they want. Stuart the other thing going on here, of course, is impeachment. Here we are into week two of the impeachment deal and the market is going up. I think the market is so used to hearing the word impeachment, i think the market would be more surprised if impeachment wasnt spoken about. I think the markets adapted to it and i think that they are looking at it as something thats far off into the future. I think really as long as impeachment is on the table, it is a distraction but the real issue for the markets is whats going to happen with china. You are talking about the single biggest Consumer Market in the world, and the market was nervous last week when there were going to be restrictions on chinese companies, on the stock exchange. That was a very nervewracking time at least for me because you dont want the market to be messed with and dragged into this to that extent. Stuart over the weekend, officials, treasury officials did say the administration is not contemplating blocking u. S. Capital going to china at this point. Thats crucial, because if they did, i think the market would be way down this week. Stuart jeff, thank you very much indeed. Good show. Now, this is a story of real relevance to countless americans. Countless people around the world. Myself included. Cvs pulling the heartburn drug zantac off the shelves. Is this a cancer concern . Ashley it is, the fda saying wait a minute, they believe theres a certain compound mdma contained in zantac that in large amounts is probably cancerous to humans. But i say large amounts. It can be found in other things, too, even water in certain types of meat, but because of this, cvs is no longer selling it. Heartburn medications are big, big business, especially in the United States. But cvs says its not recommending people stop taking the medicines, but they are encouraging them to bring them back for a refund. Stuart thats going [ inaudible ] a lawsuit. Ashley of course. But its owned by a subsidiary of novartis, the giant swiss pharmaceutical company. It generates a big amount of sales. Interesting to see where this goes. Stuart no significant pullback. None at all, actually. Down ten cents on sanofi. Ashley we will see what comes out of it. Stuart check futures again, please. Monday morning, second week of the impeachment process, so to speak. We are going tou go up on all three exchanges. The wework drama having a wider impact. How the companys problems are hurting new york citys real estate market. Got it for you. Scary moment for people on a United Airlines flight. Find out what caused the plane to shake violently as it headed from denver to orlando. You want to see that . Ouch. President trump stepping up his attacks against adam schiff and the democrats, and now the president says he wants to meet with the whistleblower. Eric trump in our studio next. Varney company just Getting Started this monday morning. Stuart all right. When i sate wy it was a rough ft for some United Airlines passengers, im not exaggerating. What happened . Ashley denver to orlando, this is not the greatest video, its a bit picxilated but you are seeing an engine shaking up and down, misfiring. Its not supposed to do that. The plane quickly turned around, landed safely in denver and mechanics say yeah, we had an issue with this. They had to get another plane out. When you see that out the window thats the stuff of nightmares. Stuart everybodys got a camera these days. Anything happens, youve got video of it instantly worldwide. Its tough. It really is. Im glad we can see it. Thats a good thing. Lets get serious. The House Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff says the trump whistleblower will testify soon. Roll tape. Do you expect the testimony of the whistleblower . Absolutely. Your committee already has an agreement with the whistleblower that he will testify . We have agreement that he or she will testify, yes. Stuart theres a yes. President trump tweeting this, im quoting directly, i want to meet not only my accuser who presented second and thirdhand information, but also the person who illegally gave this information which was largely incorrect to the whistleblower. Was this person spying on the u. S. President . Big consequences, exclamation point. Look whos here. Eric trump himself. Welcome to the program. How are you . Stuart im very well. Remarkably well, actually. Your dads going out there with guns blazing. You look at adam schiff, this was the guy, remember the radio guys, funny radio guys who put on the russian accent and pranked him . They called him up and said we have compremat on the president and he said i would very much like to see this, send it over to me. The very thing hes accusing my father of doing is something he was doing three months ago. Stuart, heres the deal. These guys cannot win. They know they cant win 2020. I say this every single day. You have biden who talks about 700 million females in this country, you have Elizabeth Warren who lies about her ancestry. They are not all together, they cant beat him, they know they cant beat him. You have senators and congressmen and everyone else saying the only way to beat trump is actually impeach him. They failed with the russia nonsense. It totally backfired. Adam schiff was the guy coming out saying i have all this inside information and its going to come out and we totally have trump. He was wrong there. They lied to the american public. They are trying to distract from maybe the greatest market that this country has ever seen in the history of our nation and this is going to backfire on them again and the amount of money we are raising every single day from the campaign is out of control. Americans can read through b. S. And thats exactly what theyre doing right now. Stuart how much did your dad, didnt you raise 15 million in a few 15 million in 72 hours, including 50,000 new donors who had never donated to a Political Campaign ever before. What does that tell you guys . Stuart wait a second. Theres another side to this coin. Joe biden is going to be investigated. What happened with hunter biden in ukraine. What happened in china. Is he a bearing in mind his fathers Vice President ial position . Can you imagine if that was me or don who took 83,000 from a company in the ukraine to consult on a subject that we knew absolutely nothing about . Could you imagine . How about you want the best guys to run the greatest funds, you know all of them, in the world, they cant get money out of china, yet hunter biden gets a billion and a half dollars after going over to china on air force two . Could you imagine if that was a trump . I raised 20 million for dying children at st. Judes Childrens Hospital and they investigate me. That was before the age of 30. At the lowest Expense Ratio of any charity and they investigate me. Yet hunter biden gets a total pass after he gets kicked out of the navy for cocaine use, for this and that. Come on, guys. The double standard is incredible. Stuart your dad is coming out guns blazing and so are you. Stay there. Eric, hold on a second. I have more in a second. Look at futures, please. We are moving up a bit more. Now we are going to be up 20 on the nasdaq, 40 on the dow industrials. We have elon musk making some pretty bold plans for space. Hes unveiled his latest mars rocket prototype and says we could be sending humans he could be sending humans to mars sooner than expected. We have the story for you. Heres a commercial break. When i grew up in brooklyn my parents lived the American Dream and taught me what to do to be invested. I saw the power of business and the importance of making your money work for you. With truecar, to sell just enter your license plate and see your cars value in real time. Sports package and low mileage . Nice. Within minutes, youll have a true cash offer, and you can head to a dealership and get paid, today, right now. Thats for sure. 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We have always been told that your dad, well, he inherited a lot of money from his father and thats how he got his start. So its not really the American Dream. What have you got to say . The American Dream is back and its alive and well and you see that when you see the markets and when you see these Great Companies coming out and succeeding. You guys were talking about peloton earlier. You watch these companies go from a simple concept into something thats incredible, something thats a brand and thats really what my father did. He didnt just do that in business. He did it in tv. We had the apprentice way which an incredible type show. We are not exactly reality tv type people. Stuart now you are. Now we are. He thought the country was going in the wrong direction and he goes lets give it a chance, lets give it a shot and he achieved something that was incredible but we achieved something that was incredible and something that was so much bigger than what we are. It shows that the American Dream is alive and under him, i think the American Dream is going to be stronger than it was ever before. Stuart it drives me nuts when i see people say oh, you havent got a chance, you cant do that, this is america, 21st century america, you are a victim. You cant succeed. It drives me up the wall when i hear it because its so negative and it pervades the national mood. Especially if you go out and look at the success stories, how many people who hadnt graduated high school went out and found these incredible companies and crushed it and created something incredible and contributed to their communities. You know, its what depresses me when we talk about Socialistic Movement and this push which is we have seen that movie before in so many other countries. I can tell you countries that cant get out of their own way. I spend time in many of those countries.