Funeral for general soleimani, of course, killed during drone strike as we are hearing fresh threats to set u. S. Facilities on fire bringing death to israel and officially, official designate the u. S. Military a terrorist force, the administration is defending the air strikes that killed soleimani this morning claiming hes responsible for leading operations in iraq that killed 600 service members, rob, thank you very much for your service in the country, your reaction to that all of this . I think we are getting away from the fact that soleimani was found in baghdad which could have become another benghazi but thank god because the appropriate response went in. This was not an act of war, killing was a strong and appropriate response, so this attack on the american soldiers has been happening overseas for a while now, i think the response is strong and i think also when we see all of the crowds gathering to mourn soleimani, a lot of people are pretending that they are there by force. So i think it is this a good point. Maria some people say look at the people, if you dont come out you will get killed. Jon they were protesting the iranian government, clearly hard to read the pictures of whats going on in iran and the streets, one of the things that im focused on today is whats the next step for the u. S. , you know, we clearly had symbolic victory in taking down soleimani but strategically where do we stand in iraq, are we at risk to having pulled troops out there if iraqis renege on agreement to have them there on the first place. Dagen the vote in Iraqs Parliament was symbolic, that it was the sunni, iraqis and others that didnt show up to vote, number 1, but President Trump and his administration is in a precarious situation where they could make a mistake, just yesterday there was a draft letter that was released by a u. S. General that was circulating that appeared to respond to iraqs request to withdraw u. S. Troops and then the joint chief of staff mark milley, the general, the letter had sent to iraqi official and it was honest mistake. He needs to be careful in managing the consequences that if events spin in dangerous ways, such the u. S. Leave iraq, mr. Trump will not blame anybody else, he should reassuring iraq that the u. S. Is there to preserve sovereignty, not to exploit it, again, avoid behavior and tweets in this environment after what was a justified takeout of a terrorist i think i want to push back what you said before on the idea that we are in daughter of pulling out of iraq, we have been trying to exit the quagmire for a really long time and i think this could be something that pushes us forward, and, again, the release of that letter saying we will withdraw from iraq was a hot mess, to put it lightly, im not entirely sure what the story behind was but not good look at all. Jon if we pull out are we handing iranians victory because they are going to fill the void maria only way troops are pulling out if iraq pays us for air base and gives us billions for all of the time defending them, right, do you think the president will pull troops out . Its hard to know. Its really hard to know. Pulled away from the border of turkey with little notice, like dagen, its hard to know what kind of behavior it is, but, you know, somebody who served and talks to the people i serve with and people that are serving overseas right now theres idea of endless war, at what point is it ever a good point to escape to pull out of iraq, is it now 15 years, 20 years, we are going on the 17th anniversary of the invasion of iraq this year. I remember because i was there, i dont think people realize how long we have been there and whats the exit strategy going to be. Dagen theres no exit right now, the plans outlined by the pentagon called 200 members from the 173 brigade. Maria are you surprised that the markets are not reacting to this at all . Complete turn around yesterday, markets ended up, this morning we got a fractional gain, investors shaking off the concerns, we are looking at a gain of 40 points right out of the gate, jon. Jon the other key strategic area in the world is texas, permian basin, its amazing how we can have all of the conflict the middle east, the risk of potentially attacks in the strait of hormuz and oil prices 730 a barrel, and if this happened 10, 15 years ago we see oil easily 100. Dagen not even 15, 20, less than that because President Trumps position and policy on Energy Production in this country has taken us because of private industry because of the shell boom but because policies taken us to number world oil producer, we are now not just a number 1 producer but the swing producer, we control market supplies and prices, we are very close to becoming a sustained netoil exporter as soon as sometime this year. Jon if prices do go up and we see more conflict in middle east that gives incentive to drillers in the United States to drill more oil so actually becomes a win for production. Dagen you might see higher prices we control our own destiny. We control our oil supplies and security, we are pushing back on nations that hate us, i talked about it for 2 years. Maria sanctions on iran and what has done to their economy in terms of their ability to sell oil to anybody, the sanctions out there in terms of sanctioning europe, sanctions companies doing business with iran obviously is working. Lets get onto former nissan head carlos goshn, yesterday i reported that he told me that he has evidence of a coup, a coup out to get him, he said hes going to be naming names at the News Conference tomorrow, he will reveal those people he says were behind the charges of wrongdoing at nissan, goshn he said it came because he we wanted to personal, you know that, ive said that 3 years, about a year since he was taking in, japan was looking to have goshn legally return today japan to face trial also issuing arrest for carol goshn and she was on the program a couple of months ago when she told us that japanese prosecutors would not allow her to speak to her husband. That was one of the issues, he was allowed to see cousins, daughter, son, but if he spoke to his wife, she would tamper evidence. Arrest warrant out for her. I spoke with them both this week, i spoke to him for about an hour and her she said shes very happy, they are happy to be together, he said hes not evading justice, he is leaving an unjust situation, he and she as well do not think he will get a fair trial. Dagen hes safe in lebanon for the time being but what about the security that would be surrounding him for fear that he would be somebody would kidnap him and try to send him back to japan . Maria i think thats a good point and judge napolitano brought it open, look, he has to watch his back because anybody might want to kidnap him and bring him back to japan. Hes using the opportunity to whale against japanese, he said they held him hostage and High Conviction rate as well. Hes going use journalists in press to make him rate. Maria 99. 9 , its absurd to me, how can you think that you are a safe and fair situation if 99. 9 of the people that you have charges against are convicted. Seems shady too me. Jon this has been a fascinating story, maria, youve been all over it from the beginning and dagen from the first moment. Jon has been all over it too, weve had great stories. Maria you have. I know carlos goshn very well and i knew that he was facing pressure from within, so right off the bat, i knew this is a coup, look, i believe him, we will see, there were other charges that came out, i dont know what happened in terms of financial wrongdoing but i know that the japanese government and many inside of nissan who were against merging. Dagen headline no due process for nonjapanese in japan, theres no due process, right or wrong, this was a huge shock to people in other nations that this is how people are treated in the judicial system in japan. Maria yeah, you didnt realize that, you didnt understand and one thing that he said when i spoke to him this week, i made a real misjudgment when i thought i could hand over power to successor, ceo, and i could stick around, if you give up power in japan, he said, you need to get out of the way because youre in a dangerous situation if you think youre going to have somebody else running the company but youre going to be there in a support system and your ideas are known because its all on you, look, we will see what he says tomorrow, he told me yesterday that hes going to have evidence, documents that show this this was a coup, we will have that for you when he has the press conference in fox business. Meanwhile this, made in china, Tesla Ceo Elon musk at new shanghai plant, look at musk, so excited about that, busting out a move during ceremony. [laughter] maria multibillion dollar plan, First Factory outside of the United States and cut prices on its cars there, tesla shares are higher on premarket on this entrance into china. Thoughts . Pretty good moves by the way that was my first thought. Dagen worst than any like past, you know, intoxicated wedding gift ive ever seen number 1, number 2, you know what i have my eye on, the new ford all electric the mustang, its on display, its coming out later this year, the initial order completely sold out, it is hot and all electric, its a plugin and the ford dealers in the country are getting ready to call it tesla killer. Jon its fascinating on so many levels, the first question i have for tesla, what technology are they handing over to do this . In the middle of trade confrontation maria glad you brought this up. Look at all the dance moves and how excited he is about getting into china, lets talk about china is doing. 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How you show up for the world, thats whats real. Whats your idea . I put it out there with a godaddy website. Maria welcome back, firmer tones, markets recover from early losses yesterday, losses first stem, of course from the tensions with iran, but markets tumble over the past few days falling the assassination of iranian general Qassem Soleimani, thank you so much for joining us. First explain what was going on yesterday with markets really seeing what was what had taken place in iran and little by little reversing course and markets were up, is this a factor for the markets or not . Well, yesterdays move reflects the strong appetite for stocks, look after virtually uninterrupted Fourth Quarter of gains and a new year, we thought maybe wed see people taking money off the table and iranian crisis, the iranian event gave us a great opportunity if investors wanted to sell down this market but after a day and a half investors came back in and that is an incredible by bullish sign. Maria when you have a backdrop of unemployment 50year low, doorstep on the fourthquarter earning season and i guess at the end of the day if this iran conflict doesnt impact guidance, uncertainty on the part of ceos and impact earnings, markets are not going to care, dagen. Dagen i think its a grade mechanism, somebody said privately, this came out of nowhere, how did this happen . Yes, the killing of soleimani was a shock but the provocations out of iran, they are not new, u. S. Drone was shot down, there was attack on Saudi Oil Facility that knocked out what it was 5 of Global Supply for a short period of time, 11 attacked by iranianbacked militias and killing from a contractor from the u. S. And attack on the u. S. Embassy, so this didnt come out of nowhere. 40 years and 40 years of payoff from iran, so 608 just in iraq alone and since the conflict started back in 2003, so, again, this is what the market has been watching, we know that oil, because oil is back to where it was to saudi arabia attack so investors have been paying attention to this when a lot of people have not been. Jon i think they need to look at the backdrop when you put iranian conflict aside, unlike to raise this year, we have unemployment very low, we have trade tensions starting to ease a little bit, i guess my question for markets, what was your strategy given what looked like a bullish backdrop for the market going into 2020, has anything changed about that strategy, given the events that we have seen in the last few days. When you have accommodative fed like this and the oil scare is nothing but an oil scare, higher oil prices, you will see more production come on line and keep a lid on that and if we do in unlikely event have oil going up in a range the u. S. Produces over 13 millionbarrels a day, thats a net positive for u. S. Equities, short of this really spreading we think that the investment thesis remains in tack, we will look at a lot of u. S. Growth relatively to overseas, we would like to start putting money overseas because of the relative valuations and the economy is strong, we heard maria mention strong consumer data and thats not changing, we have debt levels very low but more importantly theres optimism and when consumers have optimism they spend and the behavior is whats going to drive this economy right through the election and throughout 2020. Maria what do you think of gold up 7 in a month, rising as safe haven asset, up nearly 1,600 per ounce, highest level since 2013 and 7 mark, would you buy in here. I was looking at that, do you think theres inflation, i think gold is moving ahead of itself unless you believe theres inflation thesis, we dont see that in 2020. That could be some wage push inflation if we reduce the globalization we bring more manufacturing home from the trade deals, that could raise the cost of production so theres hints of inflationary pressures but not this year, i think gold has moved ahead of itself and we are not really big on it. Maria all right, we will be watching that. Mark, good to see you this morning, thank you so much. Impossible foods crossing over into new varieties which restaurant chains are getting on board, we will tell you all about it, celebs to the rescue, andrew cuomo and shaq both at the right place at the right time, wait till you hear this. 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