The big market mover is gold, and this is a classic flight to safety. Its getting closer to 1600 an ounce. Thats a sevenyear high. 1577, up 25 bucks as of now. Price of oil, 63 a barrel. Can you imagine where the price would be if the general had been killed a few years ago, before america became Energy Independent . Got it. Here are the late news developments. The iranians threaten retaliation. Hundreds of thousands marched through tehran for the generals funeral. The iranians say they will no longer comply with Nuclear Enrichment limits contained in the nuke deal from which mr. Trump was already withdrawn. No backing down from President Trump. Oh, no. After the iraqis demanded the withdrawal of american troops, the president threatened to send them a bill for the bases we had built for them and he threatened to respond to any iranian attack by going after cultural sites. This has been hard line trump. In washington, Speaker Pelosi will organize a vote this week to restrict the president s war powers. As for the left, it remains outraged at suleimanis killing. Aoc calls the president , our president , a monster. Ilhan omar and senator Elizabeth Warren talk about war crimes. Joe biden says the president is irrational. What a monday. A lot to go at. Lets get on with it. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart lets deal with your money first of all, bring in market watcher keith fitz. Tell me, keith, does this this is day two of the markets reaction to the suleimani killing. I got that. Do you think this is just a temporary interruption of the bull market, or the start of Something Big . I tell you what, theres something, one particular asset behavior im looking for, called walking away from the bid. That means people stop buying. We havent seen that, as you pointed out in your intro. This is still an orderly progression. Traders i talked to all weekend and coming in this morning prior to coming on air are not panicked. They are still looking forward. They believe this is going to pass. Is it going to hold a damper on things, probably. Stuart you see anybody buying the slightly lower levels that we have seen over the last couple of days . Im thinking about apple, im thinking about microsoft, im thinking about other big name stocks. Any buying there . There is. You know, myself included, im looking at all of those stocks and thinking they are very appetizing levels and i will buy more if they go lower, but the point is there is not an organized run for the exits yet. Its still very stable. Lets see what happens, very measured, at least financially speaking. Stuart would you be putting any money into gold . No. Absolutely not. Because i think much of that speculative energy that used to drive the flight to safety trade has moved into bonds, moved into cryptocurrencies, moved into cannabis stocks, all of which has been vaporized in the scheme of things. Stuart forgive me, keith, i cant resist this, but sitting next to me is a gentleman by the name of pete hegseth, a wellknown bitcoin investor. I just have to ask you, keith, would you put money into bitcoin now . Me personally . No, i would not, because i dont like it, i dont understand it. But that doesnt mean its great for some people like the gentleman sitting next to you. Stuart or so he thinks. Thanks very much for jumping on so early this morning. We appreciate it. See you soon. Got it. President trump has warned of further strikes if iran retaliates. Pete hegseth, army veteran, 1 s 101st airborne, is with us. Let me speak of Speaker Pelosi, who will orchestrate a vote to limit the president s war powers. Where was she when barack obama was conducting thousands of drone strikes in syria and elsewhere, which i didnt have a problem with. Listen, chasing down your enemy is important. There was no war powers resolution introduced by the house or Senate Restricting his latitude as commander in chief to go after terrorist organizations. The Trump Administration designated iran in april 2019 a the quds force, which suleimani ran, a designated terror organization. If hes in baghdad, we have an aumf, authorization for use of military force, in that area. Hes there to disrupt our embassy. We have actionable intelligence. We kill him. That is well within the purview of what our commander in chief has the right to do. This comes down to nancy pelosi and the democrats hating President Trump, not trusting him, thinking the iran deal was a good one when in reality, it was a terrible slow motion progression to a bomb. Thats the big question here now, i think. There might be tit for tat. What happens when iran truly does chase to a bomb, what is our next play because we cannot live in a world where iran has a nuclear bomb. Stuart President Trump, as you obviously know, caught a lot of heat from the democrats over this killing of the iranian general. Roll some tape. Lets look at what they said. This is and was an enormous escalation, and it follows a string of dubious actions that President Trump has taken, and have drastically increased the prospects and risk of war with iran and danger to americans. Stuart let me move on immediately to aoc and the tweet that she put out, because i think i know you have already seen it. I think our audience should as well. Look at this, please. Can we highlight it . Show it up there . Here we go. This is a war crime. It does not make you strategic, it makes you a monster. Little over the top, i would say. Then she comes from the generation where a tweet is a war crime. This was in response to President Trump tweeting out i have 52 targets ready to go if you strike americans or american interests to represent the 52 hostages that were held under jimmy carter and released under ronald reagan, held for 444 days. President trump, thankfully we have a president who now has a long memory, understands the nature of the terrorist regime and knows they trust one thing, strength. Thats the one thing they respect. Weakness, they run right over which they did over obama. Did they want their economic sites, military sites, political sites and or cultural sites targeted . How about their oil and gas. If they dont have energy they have absolutely nothing. As you said in your opening, you are perfectly correct, with energy independence, we dont need them the way we did before. Stuart makes all the difference. All the difference in the world. It really does. Pete, thanks for being with us so early. Always appreciate it. Thank you. Individual stocks, going to bring them to light right now. Look at apple. It hit 300 a share for the First Time Ever last week. Its backed off to 294. 75. By the way, we found out last week that ceo tim cook made 125 million but that was last year. Okay. Tesla, theres a stock that was riding high. Investors who bet against it, the short sellers, they reportedly lost a total of 8 billion. Tesla is backing off just a little this morning. Tesla at 441. As for the price of oil, 63. 92 as we speak. Can you imagine what would happen to the price of oil if the killing of suleimani had taken place five years ago . Hundred bucks a barrel guaranteed but with the frackers out there, 63. Thats all youve got. Another potential headache for boeing. Yes, again, about the 737 max jet. Boeing is at 328. Give me the story. Susan an internal audit in december uncovered that the faa now looking into whether sections of the wiring that control the tail of the plane are just too close together and could cause a short circuit and again, endangering passengers of 737 maxes. I would call boeing a stock story of 2019, the grounding of 737 max after 346 lives were lost, the ceo being fired and the fact production has been halted, shaved about half a percent off u. S. Gdp. You have a new man taking over on january 13th, david calhoun, but people think this plane may never take off again. Stuart full disclosure, as i told our audience last week, ashley, a word here, i sold about 75 of my microsoft. What did i do with some of the money that ashley tell me. Stuart put it into boeing. Susan really . Stuart i did. Full disclosure. Susan you are way off the record high. 448, we are off 120. It was underperforming last year. Stuart looking forward to ashley we shall follow it. Stuart check futures, please. We have come back a little. We will be down at the opening bell, maybe 160 off for the dow industrials. Senator Lindsey Graham sending this strong warning to Speaker Pelosi about impeachment. Watch this. If she continues to refuse to send the articles as required by the constitution, i would work with senator mcconnell to change the rules of the senate so we could start the trial without her if necessary. Stuart all right. Senator graham there says what Speaker Pelosi is doing is quote, bad for the country. Colin kaepernick now claiming President Trumps decision to take out suleimani is because of race. Fox friends host Brian Kilmeade joins us later to discuss that. First, though, more u. S. Troops are reportedly headed to the middle east. General jack keane is on deck. What does he think of that . We are just Getting Started for monday morning. Back in a moment. Im your mother in law. And i like to question your every move. Like this left turn. Its the next one. 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S. Personnel in the middle east, that he will hit back harder potentially even at a disproportional level and even consider hitting cultural sites, all this as tensions do continue to flare in the region and overnight, there were three rockets fired by iranian backed groups in iraq, to the green zone just off to my left. Stuart . Stuart trey, thank you very much indeed. Now, general jack keane is with us, retired fourstar general and a fox guy. General, great to have you with us. My question is this. If and when the iranians retaliate against us, can they do serious damage to, a, our military or b, our economy . Well, they can try to do that but i dont think they can do serious damage, stuart, to be frank about it. Heres what i think they are doing. Politically, they are trying to shore up their population in support of the regime because just a few weeks ago, there was millions of people demonstrating against that regime and against their foreign adventures in syria, yemen, et cetera, and they are using suleimanis funeral as a vehicle to do that. That will be shortlived because the economic challenges that the people have and their frustration with the regime will be right back dead center days after suleimanis buried. Secondly, they are moving politically in iraq to push the United States out, they are intimidating and coercing the iraqi parliamentarans to do that. They passed a resolution to do that but its nonbinding. There will also be an election in that parliament and i think the people of iraq are rebelling against the Iraqi Government and the iranian support of that government, i believe a new parliament would have a different attitude about the United States presence. The other thing they are doing is they pulled out of the nuclear deal, and with a caveat. If you give me economic assistance, this is blackmail, then we will go back into the nuclear deal. Thats targeted on the uk, france and germany. Militarily, stuart, im not convinced that they will take a very bold move and go after the United States military in a big way because this thing has shook them. They were not expecting this, stuart. This is the number one guy. They not only had a professional relationship, they had a personal relationship. When he looks around the room at his advisers now, theres nobody like suleimani in that room. So im not convinced they have the confidence to go after the United States, because President Trump has laid down quite a marker here. Hes telling them if you do more of this, im going to do, im going to also escalate and come back at you. Stuart what youre saying, general, is that hard line trump, thats hard line approach, is effective in this instance . I think it is, particularly, stuart, in the face of the restraint that hes been exercising for a year. An american drone shot down, tankers blown up and seized, oil fields hit, and ten times the iraqi Shiite Militia fired rockets at bases where u. S. Troops were. It wasnt until an american was killed and servicemen were wounded that he responded on the 11th time. So i think the restraint that he exercises actually strengthens his position when he did pull the trigger. Because now they know how dead serious he is. Stuart if you watch the media or some democrats over the weekend, you would think that america is terrified of the iranian response, that we are all shaking. Yeah, i dont know whats going on there. I listened to some of that and i turned a lot of it off because i think its mostly politically inspired and i try not to get involved in all that nonsense. I really think we dont have to be terrified of the iranians. We have to be sober about what their capabilities are and i think thats what this administration did, when they saw an attack coming and i have been told by a high Government Official that it was multiple targets in multiple places and they were not about to let that happen. So they thought to themselves how do we stop it. Im sure they had a number of options and one of those options, lets take out the people that are planning the attack and directing it. Thats what they did. Stuart got it. General jack keane, thanks for being with us. Always appreciate it. Good talking to you. Stuart yes, sir. Thank you. Now, something completely different. The saga of exnissan chief carlos ghosn continues. Ash, welcome back. Do we know how he got out ashley there are all sorts i mean, this is really going to be an amazing movie, because listen, you know, the private Security Firm hired by nissan to keep an eye on him in his tokyo residence finally stopped surveilling him. When he knew that, he hatched this plan, managed to get out of his house, race 300 miles across japan to a private jet facility in osaka, japan, where he got on a plane inside a big large black box with holes in it which was actually used for some sort of Musical Instrument like a double bass. He was loaded on to that plane, flown to turkey where, in the predawn rainstorm, he was taken out of that on to another plane, then flown to lebanon, where he was safe from extradition. There is so much more to this story but its remarkable. Stuart who plays ghosn in the movie . Ashley good question. Stuart look at futures, please. We are going to be down but this is no big catastrophic selloff period. Maybe down 180 for the dow. Look at that level, 28,400. Golden globes, the host, Ricky Gervais delivering a scorching message to hollywood. Please roll it. So if you do win an award tonight, dont use it as a platform to make a political speech, right. Youre in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spend less time in school than Greta Thunberg so if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your god. Stuart i wish i had stayed up for that. I cant. Ashley yeah, yeah, yeah. Stuart more of this, after this. Any comments doug . Yeah. Only pay for what you need with Liberty Mutual. Only pay for what you need with Liberty Mutual. Con Liberty Mutual solo pagas lo que necesitas. Only pay for what you need. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Its our most dangerous addiction. And to get the whole world clean . That takes a lot more than an alternative. So we took our worst vice, and turned it into the dna for a better system. Materials made from recycled plastic woven and molded into all the things we consume. We created bionic and put the word out with godaddy. What will you change . Make the world you want. Apple rolled into the tv game with a morning show, a superb drama. Yeah. A superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in china. So if you do win an award tonight, dont use it as a platform to make a political speech, right. Youre in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. So if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your god. Stuart you know nothing about the real world. That was very intriguing to me. Ashley i could not agree with him more. Stuart really. Ashley i think hes absolutely right. He says im here for the 200 Million People who werent invited to this little shindig so i will look at it from their point of view and he says theyre all jokes, were all going to die soon and theres no sequel which i think is hilarious. He delivered. Stuart i was looking at the reviews of his performance, his performance in like the washington post. They were really lukewarm about it. Ashley of course. Stuart he got out th