Going to prosecute. The governor calls these businesses selfish. President trump goes to pennsylvania on thursday and later on this program, we will have numbers from businesses in states that have allowed a partial reopening and ill tell you now, business is good. Moments from now, we have Shelly Luther with us. Shes the salon owner who went to jail for opening early, an American Hero on this program today. One hour from now, dr. Anthony fauci begins his virtual testimony before congress. Reportedly, he will say opening too early means needless suffering and death. The democrats will try to drive a wedge between dr. Fauci and the president. We will have, by the way, the latest on the explosive revelations coming out about what president obama was doing to instigate and set off the russia collusion mess. Turns out joe biden was in the key meeting. He was asked about it this morning. He did not have convincing answers. The status of joe bidens candidacy, the markets stunning recovery, obamagate. Weve got it all. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart how many times have i heard that . Oh, yes, disney is hoping many of you will be their guest starting in july. Thats when they are planning to reopen disney world and other parks. Lauren, come in, please. Whats the plan for this reopening . Lauren as you said, they are accepting reservations for the theme parks and the resorts in july and if they follow the blueprint, which is shanghai, there will be social distancing markers, temperature checks, masks for everyone, characters and guests. If you also look at the calendar, when china closed their theme parks, they opened back up three and a half months later, well, disney closed middle of march and if they open in july, thats about three and a half months. So shanghai, that opening yesterday was a big success and disney world is looking to follow that. Stuart i agree, lauren, its symbolically very important that disney is thinking about opening in july. Thats a message to all of us. Thanks, lauren. I want to get to the headline from Morgan Stanley. They are now predicting a vshaped economic recovery. In other words, they have gone right back up again. Art laffer is with us. Are you on board with a vshaped recovery . In other words, a vigorous recovery starting real soon . Let me just tell you, im not into the medical stuff. I read it, love it and im not into the political stuff of whats happening with flynn but economics is my gig, and that is very true. Morgan stanleys results are exactly what i believe. I think this president , this administration, has done a great job on the economy and anyone wants that economy to last, this president is probably the best president for the economy i have ever seen. Its just amazing and i think Morgan Stanley is showing that when they do the vshape but the stock market is even a better forecaster, stuart. What youre seeing, the stock market is remember, it went as low as 18,000, then bounced back. The stock market is the single best predictor of the future. The stock market tells us what will be, not what has been. Its an unbiased efficient forecaster and the stock market is telling us this is going to be a shallow dip and a quick recovery and i couldnt be more excited than i am. Stuart hold on a second, art. I will get to you in a moment. Mike murphy is with us. Look, this vshaped recovery for the economy and this huge recovery in the market, that is dependent upon President Trump winning reelection, isnt it . Stuart, its absolutely necessary for President Trump to win reelection because if you look at joe biden, i dont think the first thing i believe he would look to do is just dismantle everything that President Trump has already put in place and the Trump Administration so anyone who is betting on an economic recovery, in a sense is betting on trump. Stuart Morgan Stanley did say that the economy rebounds but then the stock market is likely to see a 10 down side move before the end of the year, before rallying back at the end of the year. Are you in line with a pullback in the near future . I would love a phone call from them if they could let me know when that 10 is coming and when its going to rally back up from there. No, stuart, i think thats getting a little too cute. I think if you believe in the economic recovery, look as art was just saying, look at what the market is telling you right now. We have had a huge bounce in the market. I believe that we are going to see Companies Like you mentioned disney coming back online. Wall street will look out a quarter or two quarters at the coming earnings and we have President Trumps stimulus coming in on top of that. This market is poised to take out year highs before the end of the year. We will have new highs in the market. Stuart glad youre with us this morning, mike murphy. Thats good stuff. Thank you. I want to come back to art laffer. Joe bidens got real problems. They seem to be getting worse. Moments ago, he was asked about what did he know about the flynn case while he was Vice President. Watch his answers. Roll tape. I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn, number one. Number two, this is all about diversion. This is a game this guy plays all the time. The country is in crisis, we are in an economic crisis, a health crisis. We are in real trouble. I thought you asked me whether or not i had anything to do with him being prosecuted. Im sorry. I was aware that there was that they had asked for an investigation. Stuart fox news confirms another document dump that may expose obama officials who were behind the unmasking of flynn. Thats coming up very soon. I have to ask you, art, do you think that joe biden is the candidate to face donald trump in november . Will he last . Not in economics. Not in economics. What you just played on the tape there reminds me as you know, i was in the nixon white house. You know, this type of subterfuge and dissembling is not republican or democrat, its political. When i see that, im just amazed. But when you look at biden on economics, it makes no sense. Biden clearly was bad on economics before and will be bad on it again in the future and he doesnt have the strength, he doesnt have any private sector experience, for goodness sake. He started off in politics as a little baby. He doesnt know what its like to earn a buck or pay a paycheck. He doesnt understand that stuff. And it shows. When you want good economics, if you want this economy to prosper, biden is not the guy. There are a bunch of democrats who are good but bidens not one of them. Stuart all right. We will leave it at that. I want to say thank you to art laffer and mike murphy. Good stuff this morning, this tuesday morning. Thank you, gentlemen. Lets talk about elon musk and tesla. Look, we are talking about revolt here. Susan, musk has reopened his factory in california. The sheriff didnt close it down. He is the poster boy for revolt in california. Susan its a showdown between big business and government guidelines to reopen. Yes, elon musk tweeting this late on monday, saying he is restarting the alameda production and goes against the county rules. I will be on the line with everyone else and if anyone is interested or arrested, i ask that it only be me. Musk is upset that his only car factory in america, in fremont county, has been shut down while his rivals in michigan, General Motors and ford, have been allowed to restart manufacturing on monday next week. He says what alameda is doing goes against Governor Newsoms guidelines on reopening which essentially allows manufacturing to restart and he says the stay in place orders are fascist and it goes against the american way. As for business itself, we know teslas parking lot has been full. Furloughed workers have been asked to come back and they will submit a specific site plan later on today but Alameda County says you still need our permission and it might come with misdemeanor charges along with it. Stuart that should be fun. Susan, thank you very much indeed. Stock check for you. Simon property group, up 8 . Full disclosure, i own a thin sliver of that stock. They are the largest mall operator in the country. Half their malls will be up and running this week. Their profits were down 20 in the First Quarter. Thats the virus, obviously. They have bounced back this morning to the tune of 8 . 59 on Simon Property group. Another of those biotech companies, novavax, up 65 this morning. They received 384 million from bill gates to develop a vaccine for the virus. The stock is now at 40, up nearly 16 bucks. Listen to this. Fox business alert. In less than an hour, dr. Anthony fauci will testify in front of the Senate Health committee. Hes expected to warn that we would experience quote, needless suffering and death if the country reopens too soon. Dr. Fauci will be there along with cdc director robert redfield, fda commissioner stephen hahn, hhs assistant secretary but democrats led by senator schumer, they will make the hearing an opportunity to make President Trump look bad. Watch this. Until now, we have mostly heard from the members of the Coronavirus Task force through the distorted lens of the White House Press conference, where the president often prevents them from answering fully. This will be one of the first opportunities for dr. Fauci to tell the American People the unvarnished truth without the president lurking over his shoulder. Dr. Fauci, let it rip. Stuart let it rip, he said. We will be following that hearing for you. It starts at 10 00 eastern. Check futures. Weve got a nice rally. Its a modest rally, lets be honest. Its up about 100 points for the dow, 10 for the s p, 30 for the nasdaq. The price of oil, where is it this morning . Its up, what, 2 , did you say . Up 2 in the mid 20s per barrel. Energy secretary Dan Brouillette is going to be with us. Oil demand is up because the country is reopening. Hes got to like that. Hes on the show. Vera bradley getting ready to reopen nearly all their stores by the end of next month. The ceo joins us in the 11 00 hour. Heres a question. Why should i go to the store if i can buy everything online . And i can. All right. Caspers ceo is with us, too. They are an online mattress seller. Hes cutting jobs and those jobs, are they going to come back . Well see. First, get this. The texas salon owner released from jail after defying the states lockdown order, she is here. She is live. Shelly luther, an American Hero in my opinion, is up next. Im greg, im 68 years old. I do motivational speaking in addition to the substitute teaching. I honestly feel that thats my calling to give back to younger people. I think most adults will start realizing that they dont recall things as quickly as they used to or they dont remember things as vividly as they once did. Ive been taking prevagen for about three years now. People say to me periodically, man, youve got a memory like an elephant. Its really, really helped me tremendously. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. And wells fargo employees are assisting millions of customers never before across america through fee waivers and payment deferrals, helping people stay in their homes through mortgage Payment Relief efforts and donating 175 Million Dollars to help hundreds of local organizations provide food and other critical needs. When you need us, wells fargo is here to help. Thank you guys so much. Im a little overwhelmed and i dont want to scare the kids. Im okay. I just want to thank all of you who i just barely met and now youre all my friends. You mean so much to me and this would have been nothing without you. Stuart that was a wonderful moment Shelly Luther left jail. She was thrown behind bars for reopening her salon in dallas early. The authorities stepped in to reverse the decision. She was set free, as you can see. Theres been an outpouring of support from across the nation. Republican senator ted cruz stopped by her salon to get a haircut. Ted cruz spoke to sean hannity about it. Heres what he had to say. Roll it. I got to say, what happened to Shelly Luther was a disgrace and i felt embarrassed for my home state of texas that this happened in texas. Number one, seven days in jail for cutting hair is nuts. Thats just crazy. Youve got local officials cross the country that are releasing violent criminals, releasing murderers and rapists and child molesters because of covid19 and were going to lock up a Small Business owner because shes opening up her business . That doesnt make any sense. Stuart Shelly Luther was attacked on the view. Whoopie goldberg insisted that luther should apologize for her actions. Well, Shelly Luther is with us right now. Joining us on Varney Company. Shelly, you are a hero. Great to have you on the show today. But let me ask you this. Lets get right at it right from the start. You are accused of putting your community at risk because you opened up early. What do you say . I would say that thats false. If the government or city officials feel like they can open home depot, walmart, the pet grooming store, people can get botox fillers, go to the dentist, where youre reaching in peoples mouths, if we are practicing very safe, sanitary measures, then i dont see how im putting the public in, you know, in jeopardy more than any of the other companies are. Stuart you took all kinds of precautions when you opened your salon. I think everyone wore masks, is that right, gloves . Did you take temperatures, that kind of thing . Yes. We did. We are not wearing gloves. We are sanitizing and or washing our hands before and after every client and we are having every client do the same. But yes, we had chairs sitting six feet apart outside. No one was waiting. There were no magazines inside. Of course, we talked about hand sanitation. Everybody wearing a mask before they could come in. We do have an infrared thermometer so yes, we were taking all the precautions, on top of all of the other sanitation guidelines that are already required by the state. Stuart now, forgive me, but heres another accusation. That you set this up. That you ripped up the cease and desist order in public and that you were on camera when the judge said apologize, you said no, and you went to jail. Did you sort of set yourself up . Is that a reasonable accusation . No. All of this happened i mean, most people that know me, im just a very regular, real person. If im not working, a lot of times i dont even leave my house. Im kind of a homebody. So for all of this to happen is very surreal and i was not contacted by anyone before all of this happened. I made all of these decisions myself. So to say any of that is pretty crazy to me. Stuart okay. I agree with that, by the way. I had to ask the question. Hows business now that youre out of prison and i take it you have gone back to work . Oh, yeah. The salon has been open since the 24th. And the stylists are back to work. They are happy to be back to work. Even with all the publicity and crazy things going on, we are just happy to have our family back in the salon. Stuart any regrets of any kind . No. I dont regret anything. Stuart are you going to take any political position in the future . You know, i havent really decided that. Thats not something i even think about. I kind of live and follow my heart as it goes. Right now, we are just interested in going to help the girls the two girls that got arrested in laredo. We are on our way there for a rally tomorrow. Of course i started my new Charitable Foundation called courage to stand. You can see that at courage to stand. Com. Any contributions that i have received, i am going to give back in full for people that dont have, you know, a voice of their own. We are going to stand up with them. Stuart Shelley Luther, we think you are a hero. We really appreciate you being on the show today. Thanks very much for being here. Appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me. Stuart see you soon. Thanks very much. Now, ive got more positive news on the reopening of the country. This positive news comes from new york. Ashley, tell me. Ashley yes. Stu, its my dog deciding to bark right at that moment. We are on the other side of the mountain, says governor cuomo. Which is good. That means phase one for certain regions of new york can start to reopen. Those three regions, by the way, the southern tier, the mohawk valley, the basic requirements means you have to see a reduction in the number of new cases and the number of deaths for 14 straight days. That, in fact, is the case in some regions of new york. The overall death toll for the state is high at 26,600, but as you can see on the screen, these are the regions that meet the requirements. Construction, manufacturing, wholesale supply chain, these are the folks that can start to reopen, some retailers on curbside pickup. As you can see, you have to enact Worker Health screenings. You dont just open the doors and say come on in. Observe social distancing. Adjust hours. Follow strict cleaning guidelines and of course, employees to wear masks. They are going to see how this goes for two weeks. Then if everything goes fine, they will go to phase two which would include professional services, finance, retail, real estate. But i should point out mr. Deblasio, the mayor of new york city, says in the city, there will be no expanded reopening of nonessential businesses until at least june. Stuart do you remember that video from south korea where a young man was trying to do a report and his Young Children ran into the studio or into his living room . I thought maybe one of your grandchildren would come running in at some point but it was your dog that barked. Well, thats all right. Ashley my furry child. Yes. Stuart thanks, ash. We will see more of you later. The rally holds. Look at that. I see g